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Since this merger, Tri-Valley Growers has been able, with California 
Canners and Growers of San Francisco, California, another large pro- 
cessing cooperative, to jointly build and operate a large can-making 
facility. 
Current Status 
A total of 56 associations processing fruits, vegetables, or both, in 
48 States responded to the 1965 special survey. This included 32 fruit 
processing associations, 9 vegetable associations, and 15 handling 
both fruits and vegetables (appendix table 18). The 56 associations 
represent at least 80 percent of the canned and frozen packs handled by 
cooperatives and almost 100 percent of the dried packs. 
The reported fruit and vegetable packs of the associations represented 
about 21 percent of the total 1964 U. S. pack (appendix table 19). About 
72 percent of the pack was canned or bottled, 18 percent frozen, and the 
remaining 10 percent dried. By comparison, the total U. S. pack in 
1964 was composed of 74 percent canned or bottled products, 22 percent 
frozen, and 4 percent dried, 
Cooperatives in California, Washington, and Oregon processed about 52 
percent of the total cooperative pack reported in the 1965 survey. 
The survey showed that cooperatives produced about 31 percent of the 
processed deciduous fruits and juices in the U. S. in 1964 (table 11). 
In addition, cooperatives processed mst of the cranberry pack in 1964, 
as in previous years. 
The geographic distribution of the processed deciduous fruits handled 
by respondent cooperatives shows that they processed 60 percent in the 
Pacific region, 23 percent in the Middle Atlantic region, and 14 per- 
cent in New England, with the balance in the South Atlantic and Moun- 
tain regions. 
Frozen deciduous fruits, berries, and juices packed by cooperatives 
covered by the survey approximated 18 percent of the total U. S. pack. 
Cooperatives handled about 16 percent of the frozen apple products, 22 
percent of the frozen cherries, and 9 percent of the frozen berries. 
Cooperatives were also important in the frozen grape juice concentrate 
industry. Freezing and marketing associations were principally located 
in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and the Pacific Coast States. 
Florida played a prominent role in the processing of citrus fruits. Five 
of six cooperatives in Florida reported canned and frozen citrus packs 
representing about 42 percent of the State's total output. The frozen 
juice concentrate and canned citrus products handled by Florida coopera- 
tives were about equally important in their relationship to the total 
Florida packs. Practically all the U.S. supply of frozen orange juice 
concentrate was produced in Florida, at the time of this study. 
