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The earliest cooperatives appeared in the United States and Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, during the Industrial Revolution. As people moved from farms into the growing cities, they had to rely on stores to feed their families because they could no longer grow their own food.
In 1844 the Rochdale Pioneers founded the modern Co-operative Movement in Lancashire, England, to provide an affordable alternative to poor-quality and adulterated food and provisions, using any surplus to benefit the community.
In 1841 the Clubs creator, Mr Shaw of the Strand, envisaged a Club that would debate and discuss the farming issues of the day and disseminate such information to its membership and beyond. That goal is as relevant today as ever. But The Club also jealously guards its apolitical stance, and does not lobby.
The first recognized cooperative business in the U.S. was a mutual fire insurance company. It was founded in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin, and continues to operate today. The first recorded dairy and cheese cooperatives were organized in 1810, and cooperatives for other agricultural commodities followed.
By pooling supply purchases, sales, and handling and sell- ing expenses, cooperatives can operate more efficiently-at lower costs per unit-than farmers can individually. This principle also can be applied to succeeding levels in terminal marketing of commodities and in wholesaling and manufacturing of supplies.

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Farmer-owned co-ops help producer-members market and process their crops and livestock, and secure needed production supplies and services. Consumer-owned rural utility co-ops provide electrical power and telecommunications services. Financial co-ops provide credit and financial services.
For more than a century after the Civil War, deficient civil rights and various economic and social barriers were applied to maintaining a system where many blacks worked as farm operators with a limited and often total lack of opportunity to achieve ownership and operating independence.