There are two primary types of agricultural service cooperatives, supply cooperative and marketing cooperative.

Dairy farmers had strongly supported the bill, saying it would help increase the price they were paid for milk by strengthening marketing cooperatives.

Farmers supported the bill as a means of strengthening a regional marketing cooperative that they hope will set a higher price for milk in the state.

Congress evidently did not think so when it authorized regional marketing cooperatives.

It was only a year later that they formed their first marketing cooperative.

Translation: If Farmland offers a farmer a better deal than the marketing cooperative, it breaks the law.

With that goal in mind, New York dairy farmers last year created a marketing cooperative.

The walleye comes from a big marketing cooperative in Manitoba, 2,000 pounds of it a week, filleted by machine and frozen with the skin on.

Almost $500,000 has been disbursed to strengthen marketing cooperatives and more than 50 kilometers of roads have been built or improved.

Numerous agricultural supply and marketing cooperatives have demutualized.