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...livestock specialist USDA's Rural Business-Cooperative Service, said during seminar held at the National Institute on Cooperative Education (NICE) in Atlanta, Ga., this past summer.
Increased interest in livestock co-ops--particularly in new-generation coops -- can be attributed to low farmgate prices--including $8 pigs in December 1998. The ever-widening gap in the farm-to-retail price margins and the plunging number of spot livestock sales markets (which may be...
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