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Growers Leadership Cooperation |
 It is often said that with courage, determination and teamwork people can accomplish anything. Working together, the most difficult and complex tasks can be overcome. This is the power of cooperation and this is the spirit through which cooperatives have been operated throughout the country. The first successful cooperative was organized in the United States by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 and continues to operate to this day. Franklin knew that individual steps, no matter how small, when taken collectively held great potential. He said "little strokes fell great oaks," and today more than 100 million people are members of 47,000 U.S. cooperatives. |