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THE HISTORY AND CHANGES OF COOPERATIVE FARMING NEWS BY T I F FA N Y L E S T E R Working in the agriculture industry has always been a wild ride. One that requires hard work, dedication, and faith to be successful. One where the seed is planted, the rain is prayed for, and the harvest is rewarding. It is with great pleasure that for the last 50-plus years, Alabama Farmers Cooperative’s publication, Cooperative Farming News (CFN) has gotten to tell the tales of those who provide the world with food and fiber. Those who have fought through hardships
one year and came out with a bountiful crop the next. We’re proud to have shared the stories of farms that have passed from one generation to the next, still striving to achieve the same goal. Cooperative Farming News reaches 31 different states from the Southern states of Alabama, Tennessee and Florida to as far west as California and Oregon, and into the farthest reaches of the Northeast into Maine and Massachusetts.
Frances Dahlke is one of the longest-serving Co-op employees. She began as a bookeeper at Cullman Farmers Cooperative in 1961, moved on to Walker Farmers Co-op in Jasper where in 1978 she earned the E.P. Garrett Manager of the Year award.
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