date:Jun 09, 2012
But Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC), wants the public to know how important they, and the less obvious players in the nation's farmer cooperative system are.
Recently Conner and Jeff Solberg, CEO of Growmark, Inc., stopped in Des Moines, Iowa, to promote the Year of the Farmer Co-op. NCFC's year-long outreach follows separate declarations last year by the U.S. Senate and the United Nations that 2012 is the International Year of Cooperatives