Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives - Amalgamated Sugar Company, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Amalgamated Sugar Company, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, Land O'Lakes, Tillamook County Creamery Association, Farmland Industries, Alberta Wheat Pool, Ocean Spray, Dairy Farmers of America, Cabot Creamery, Anchor, Humboldt Creamery, Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, Florida's Natural Growers, Welch's, Sun-Maid, Dairy Farmers of Britain, Irish Dairy Board, Associated Co-operative Creameries, Sunsweet Growers, Kuapa Kokoo, American Legend Cooperative, Blue Diamond Growers, Riceland Foods, Western Sugar Cooperative, United Grain Growers, Michigan Sugar Company, Darigold, MFA Incorporated, Gaypak. Excerpt: The Amalgamated Sugar Company is a sugar beet refining company run on a cooperative basis. It was founded in 1897 in Logan, Utah, and is now located in Boise, Idaho, United States. The company markets its sugar under the White Satin brand. The Ogden Sugar Company was incorporated on December 6, 1897 at the Weber Club in Ogden, Utah. Directors included David Eccles, Thomas Duncombe Dee, George Q. Cannon, and John R. Winder, with Eccles as president, and Dee as vice president. One of the first motions was to ask senators Frank J. Cannon and Joseph L. Rawlins and representative William H. King to oppose the Annexation of Hawaii into the United States. Eccles and Joseph Clark inspected a sugar beet factory in Los Alamitos, California, and contracted with the E. H. Dyer Construction Company of Cleveland, Ohio to build a sugar beet factory in Ogden. Ogden Sugar began with a plant built in Ogden, Utah in 1898. It was based on the success of the Utah Sugar Company's Lehi, Utah plant, built in 1891 and successful by 1897. The first annual report to Ogden Sugar stockholders was made March 16, 1899, and "was a forerunner of subsequent annual reports made in equally depressing lan...