Meat Industry INSIGHTS Newsletter

980337 Two, Major Farm Cooperatives Merging

March 20, 1998

Lansing, MI - The nation's largest livestock marketing cooperative will become a division of the giant Southern States Cooperative Inc. Officials say the Michigan Livestock Exchange, which handled $700 million worth of animals last year, and Richmond, Va.- based Southern States, which did $1.2 billion worth of crop-supply business last year, will merge April 1.

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