Table 9. --Citrus fruits utilized for processing by 7 cooperatives 

 compared to total U.S. utilization for processing 1969 



Citrus fruits utilized for processing : Percent of 

 Item : Handled by : Total : co-op pack to 

 cooperatives.!/ : U. S. j./ : total U. S. pack 



1,000 Tons - 



Percent 



Citrus fruits 



1,932 



7,931 



24 



_1/ Special survey. Farmer Cooperative Service, U.S. Department of 



Agriculture, 1970. 

 _2/ Fruit Situation, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of 



Agriculture, TFS 177, November 1970, page 10. 



Vegetable Pack 



The 47 cooperatives processed about 13 percent of the total United 

 States canned vegetable and juice pack in 1969 (Table 10) . They 

 packed about 15 percent of the green and wax beans, 6 percent ^f 

 the corn, 21 percent of the tomatoes, and 3 percent of the peas 

 during the year. 



These fruit and vegetable processing cooperatives packed about 8 

 percent of the total United States frozen vegetable pack in 1969 

 (Table 11) . They packed about one-third of the frozen corn pack 

 and one-fifth of the green and wax bean pack. However, they 

 packed only 7 percent of the total frozen pea pack and 3 percent 

 of the total frozen white potato pack. 



MEMBERSHIP 



Forty-four of the processing cooperatives in the study had a total 

 membership of 29,443 growers in 1968-69 (Table 12). The other 

 three were federated cooperatives which had local cooperatives 

 as members . 



