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COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING 1 HISTORY OF COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES (1923-2008): EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCEBOOK Copyright © 2008 by Soyinfo Center COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING 2 Copyright © 2008 by Soyinfo Center COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING 3 HISTORY OF COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES (1923-2008): EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCEBOOK AGRI Industries, AGP, Boone Valley, CHS, Dawson Mills Farmland Industries, Far-Mar-Co, GTA, Gold Kist, Honeymead, Land O’Lakes, MFA, Monticello Cooperative, North Iowa Cooperative, Ohio Valley Soybean Cooperative, Riceland Foods Compiled by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi 2008 Copyright © 2008 by Soyinfo Center COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING 4 Copyright (c) 2008 by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information and retrieval systems - except for use in reviews, without written permission from the publisher. Published by: Soyinfo Center P.O. Box 234 Lafayette, CA 94549-0234 USA Phone: 925-283-2991 Fax: 925-283-9091 www.soyinfocenter.com [email protected] ISBN 978-1-928914-16-7 (History of Cooperative Soybean Processing in the United States: Bibliography and Sourcebook) Printed 24 March 2008 Price: $69.95 Search engine keywords: History of Monticello Co-operative Soybean Products History of AGRI Industries, Inc. (Iowa) Co. (Monticello, Piatt Co, Illinois) History of Ag Processing Inc a cooperative (AGP) History of North Iowa Cooperative Processing History of Arkansas Grain Corp. Association (Manly, Iowa) History of Boone Valley Cooperative Processing Assoc. History of North Iowa Soybean Cooperative (Manly, (Eagle Grove, Iowa) Iowa) History of CHS Cooperatives, Incl. Cenex, Inc. and History of Ohio Valley Soybean Cooperative Harvest States Cooperatives (Includes Honeymead) (Henderson, Kentucky) History of Consumers Cooperative Association History of Piatt County Soybean Cooperative Co. (Illinois) History of Cooperative Soybean Crushers (General & History of PMS Foods, Inc. Other) History of Riceland Foods (Arkansas) History of Dawson Food Ingredients History of Tri-County Soy Bean Co-operative Association History of Dawson Mills (Dawson, Minnesota) (Dawson, Minnesota) History of Farmland Industries, Inc History of Far-Mar-Co, Inc. (Hutchinson, Kansas) History of Cooperative Soybean Crushers History of Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association History of Cooperative Soybean Crushing Companies (GTA) (St. Paul, Minnesota) Chronology of Cooperative Soybean Crushers History of Farmers Union Grain Cooperative Marketing Association (CMA) Timeline of Cooperative Soybean Crushing Companies History of Gold Kist, Inc. (Georgia) Bibliography of Cooperative Soybean Crushers History of Honeymead (as a Cooperative, Mankato, Minnesota) History of Land O’Lakes, Inc. History of Missouri Farmers Association (MFA) (Mexico and Columbia, Missouri) Copyright © 2008 by Soyinfo Center COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING 5 Contents Page Dedication and Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................................. 6 Introduction and Brief Chronology, by William Shurtleff ....................................................................................... 7 Abbreviations Used in This Book ................................................................................................................................ 9 How to Make the Best Use of This Book .................................................................................................................. 10 History of Cooperative Soybean Processing: 841 References in Chronological Order ...................................... 13 Subject/Geographical Index by Record Numbers ................................................................................................. 272 Last page of Index .................................................................................................................................................... 301 Copyright © 2008 by Soyinfo Center COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING 6 DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is dedicated to James W. Lindsay, Bill Lester, Joe Contra Costa County Central Library and Lafayette Library: Givens, Glenn Pogeler, John R. Dunn, and Joseph G. Knapp Carole Barksdale, Kristen Wick, Barbara Furgason, Sherry - pioneers in this field. Cartmill, Linda Barbero. Harvard University’s Five Botanical Libraries (especially Arnold Arboretum Library): Jill Gelmers Thomas. Part of the enjoyment of writing a book lies in meeting people from around the world who share a common interest, and in learning from them what is often the knowledge or We would also like to thank our co-workers and friends at skills acquired during a lifetime of devoted research or Soyinfo Center who, since 1984, have played a major role practice. We wish to give deepest thanks... in collecting the documents, building the library, and producing the SoyaScan database from which this book is printed: Of the many libraries and librarians who have been of great help to our research over the years, several stand out: Irene Yen, Tony Jenkins, Sarah Chang, Laurie Wilmore, Alice Whealey, Simon Beaven, Elinor McCoy, Patricia University of California at Berkeley: John Creaser, Lois McKelvey, Claire Wickens, Ron Perry, Walter Lin, Dana Farrell, Norma Kobzina, Ingrid Radkey. Scott, Jeremy Longinotti, John Edelen, Alex Lerman, Lydia Lam, Gretchen Muller, Joyce Mao, Luna Oxenberg, Joelle National Agricultural Library: Susan Chapman, Carol Bouchard, Justine Lam, Joey Shurtleff, Justin Hildebrandt, Ditzler, John Forbes, Winnifred Gelenter, Henry Gilbert, Michelle Chun, Olga Kochan, Loren Clive, Marina Li, and Kim Hicks, Patricia Krug, Veronica Lefebvre, Julie Mangin, Rowyn McDonald. Ellen Mann, Josephine McDowell, Wayne Olson, Mike Thompson, Tanner Wray. Special thanks to Tom and Linda Wolfe of Berwyn Park, Maryland. Library of Congress: Ronald Jackson, Ronald Roache. Finally our deepest thanks to Tony Cooper of Alamo, National Library of Medicine. California, who has kept our computers up and running since Sept. 1983. Lane Medical Library at Stanford University. This book, now doubt and alas, has its share of errors. These, of course, are solely the responsibility of William Shurtleff. Copyright © 2008 by Soyinfo Center COOPERATIVE SOYBEAN PROCESSING 7 INTRODUCTION Brief Chronology of Cooperative Soybean Processing in 1963 Sept. - CMA (Consumers Marketing Association, . the United States of Kansas City, Missouri) purchases Dannen Mills in St. Joseph, Missouri; this is CMA’s first involvement with 1923 Sept. - Monticello Co-operative Soybean soybean processing. Products Co. (Monticello, Piatt Co., Illinois), America’s 1966 Sept. 1 - Consumers Cooperative Association first cooperative soybean crusher, begins operation. It is changes its name to Farmland Industries, Inc. also the first U.S. plant to use solvent extraction - benzol. 1968 spring - After considerable discussion, four 1941 June - Ohio Valley Soy Bean Co-operative plant regional grain cooperatives (including CMA) agree to in Henderson, Kentucky, begins crushing soybeans. It is the consolidate their business into a single association. On June first of the new wave of cooperative plants to start during 1, it would be known as Far-Mar-Co, Inc. At the time of the the early 1940s. Built by soybean growers in western merger, only one member, Farmers Union CMA, was Kentucky and southeaster Indiana, it is an attempt to involved with soybeans (see 1963 Sept.). increase soybean prices, encourage soybean production by 1968 - Gold Kist Soya (Div. of Cotton Processors offering a new market, and create a source of high-protein Assoc.) starts a soybean crushing plant at Valdosta, Georgia. soybean meal as a feed for livestock and poultry. 1968 fall. Farmers Export Co. (FEC) (Overland Park, 1944 March - Boone Valley Cooperative Processing Kansas) begins exporting soybeans. Three of its four owners Association starts crushing soybeans in Eagle Grove, Iowa. are cooperatives. 1945 Feb. - There are now seven cooperative soybean 1969 - Tri-Country Soy Bean Co-operative Association crushing plants in Iowa, located at Sheldon, Dike, Manly, is renamed Dawson Mills. Ralston, West Bend, Eagle Grove, and Martelle (Soybean . 1970 July - Far-Mar-Co (Hutchinson, Kansas) Digest. 1945. Feb. p. 13). They started for two main announces the creation of a new foods division. They soon reasons: (1) During and immediately after World War II, it have a food plant in St. Joseph, Missouri. was almost impossible for soybean growers to obtain 1974 - Dawson Food Ingredients is established by soybean meal, either as meal or in the form of mixed feeds. Dawson Mills. In about May 1977 they purchase Bontrae To alleviate this situation, they formed cooperatives and spun soy fiber and technology from General Mills. built soybean crushing plants. (2) To use this meal to raise 1975 Aug. - Farmland Industries starts operating meat, milk, dairy products and eggs to help the American its soybean crushing plant at Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. effort in World War II. 1977 Feb. - Far-Mar-Co merges with Farmland 1945 - Consumers Cooperative Association begins Agriservices. operating its first soybean crushing plant at Coffeyville, 1979 March 31 - Dawson Food Ingredients’ soy protein Kansas. isolate plant begins operating