To most of us, the word "cooperative" means to be agreeable or accommodating. But to thousands of Americans who work in rural America, the word "cooperative" means the difference between an industry left in the dust or one given the chance to thrive. And to the U.S. economy, it means jobs and sustained economic activity.
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The competition has always been fierce between the Raiders and the Aggies-an age-old home state rivalry that was in full force when the two teams faced off in Lubbock on October 8. But while Tech and A&M duked it out on the field, two former rivals of the clothing industry had made amends on the sidelines.
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One of the most successful innovations to come from the agriculture industry is not a fancy piece of machinery or a pest-proof form of biotech crop, but a business model made for and run by America's farmers.
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PCCA—a farmer-owned, cotton marketing, warehousing, denim manufacturing, and jean production cooperative headquartered in Lubbock, Texas—has been serving farmers since 1953, and today is one of the largest handlers of cotton in the United States, marketing millions of bales each year. Its unique "field to fashion" philosophy means that the organization literally sees a cotton seed through the
entire process—planting, harvesting, ginning, spinning into yarn and cloth—that ends with a finished garment, ready for marketing and selling.
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in August that farm profits would drop by more than 30 percent this year. It's bad news for an industry already plagued with high production costs and falling prices.
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Most of us have two lives—a work life and a family life. But as one sugar company has shown, when business grows out of family, work might just end up being a home.
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During the late 1800s, a wealthy investor named Henry Oxnard was busy cultivating America into an agricultural powerhouse. He's best known for his namesake Oxnard, Calif.—a city of nearly 200,000 people that boasts two Naval bases and is widely considered to be the world's strawberry and lima bean capital.
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