Table 20. --Sales under various types of labels by 44 cooperatives, 

 processing fruits and vegetables, 1968-69 



Geographic 

 region 



; 



Typ 



2s of lab< 



2lS 





: Coop- : 

 : eratives: 



Chain 

 store 



: Other 

 : buyers 



: Other 

 rprocessors 



: Sold un- 

 : labeled 







- - - 



Percent 



- - - 





Eastern States 



64 



26 



9 



1/ 



1 



Central States 



25 



51 



7 



8 



9 



Western States 



49 



21 



19 



7 



4 



Total 



55 



24 



14 



4 



3 



1/ Under 1 percent. 



In the Eastern States almost two-thirds of sales were under the 

 processing cooperatives' own labels compared to about one-half for 

 the Western States and one-quarter for the Central States. 



Over one-half of the sales in the Central States were made under 

 chain store labels compared to 26 percent for the Eastern States 

 and 21 percent for the Western States. 



Payments to Member Growers 



The pooling method of payment was used by 41 of the 47 fruit and 

 vegetable processing cooperatives (Table 21). Twenty used the 

 single pool method while 21 used the individual commodity pool. 



Table 21. --Grower payment methods used by 47 cooperatives processing 

 fruits and vegetables, 1968-69 





Method of payment to 



growers 



Geographic 



Pool 



: Indi- 



region 



„ , ^ : Individual 

 Single j.^ 

 ° : commodity 



: vidual 

 : accounts 



Eastern States 

 Central States 

 Western States 

 Total 



8 



2 



10 



20 



- Number - - 



10 







U 



21 



16 



