Petroleum Operations of Farmer Cooperatives, 1979

摘要

The research updates the benchmark series of studies of United States farmer cooperatives' petroleum operations conducted in 1950, 1957 and 1969, comparing their findings with the latest 1979 figures for retail, wholesale, and refinery levels of operations as well as information on transportation equipment, storage facilities, and crude oil production and reserves. While cooperatives distributed at retail about 2 percent of the liquid petroleum used in the United States in 1979, they distributed about 43 percent of the petroleum farmers used in production of food and fiber.