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Owning the Cooperative Identity: USDA Celebrates National Co-op Month

October 30, 2023 James Wadsworth, Branch Chief, Cooperative Services at USDA Rural Development

This October USDA is celebrating National Cooperative Month, an observance that recognizes the cooperative model, its many influential uses, and how cooperatives benefit their members in numerous ways. There are at least 30,000 cooperatives in the United States providing more than $700 billion to...

Rural

USDA Invests in Data for Agricultural Irrigation Improvements

February 11, 2021 R. Aaron Hrozencik, Steve Wallander, and Marcel Aillery, Economic Research Service, Economists

Every farmer needs adequate water for their crops. In some U.S. regions, farmers must rely on irrigation to have enough water for their crops. The 2017 Census of Agriculture reports farms with some form of irrigation accounted for 54% of the total value of crop sales (PDF, 121 KB). With water being...

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