75 Years of Chronicling Co-ops: On 'the street' and in cyberspace, Rural Cooperatives still spreading word about power of co-op business

摘要

It was 1934 when E.B. Reid, director of information for the Farm Credit Administration (FCA), asked editor Bill Maddox to develop a new publication to communicate information about the nation's farmer-owned cooperatives. "Initially, the aim was to make the most up-to-date cooperative information we could get available to the FCA staff, with a particular interest in marketing and purchasing cooperatives," Maddox wrote in an article in 1956 that celebrated the publication's 25th anniversary. "However,along with several others, I nurtured the hope that we would soon reach out to a wider audience."