Comparative Financial Profile of Cooperatives Handling Grain: First-Handlers with $1 Million or More in Sales

摘要

The report is based on balance sheet and operating statement data collected as part of an ACS survey of 2,275 grain marketing cooperatives. Size groups; Large - 155 cooperatives with $15 million or more in sales in calendar year 1983; Medium - 503 cooperatives with $5 million to $14.9 million in sales in calendar year 1983; Small - 237 cooperatives with $1 million to $4.9 million in sales in calendar year 1984; Types of cooperatives: Corn-soybean; Wheat-barley-oats; Wheat-sorghum; Wheat-barley; More than 50 percent of total sales was from grain. Most cooperatives were diversified, also handling farm supplies and providing many related services. The associations were typed for comparison on the basis of predominant grains handled. The information in the report can help cooperative management and boards make sound business decisions as they confront new problems and the need for increasing amounts of capital for improved or new facilities and/or services.