CO OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN AMERICA

• Hudson Kelly is considered as the originator of co operative movement in USA

• Hudson Kelly started a new co operative business in America called Granges

• The period following enactment of the law of 1865 in USA called as Grange movement 

• The Grange movement was started by Hudson Kelly

• The first co operative organization Bees had a purely rural background in USA

• In the field of livestock marketing co-operatives have been organized in USA

• Packing plants arrange for curing and slaughtering of meat and marketing of  the product of USA

• Packing plants are also called slaughter houses in USA

• In USA fruits and vegetables marketing  co operatives is the agency for the marketing of fruit and vegetables in the international market 

• Health Maintenance organization in USA is called HMOs

• The Federal Land Bank provides long-term loan to farmers in USA

• The intermediate credit bank provides short term rediscounting  facilities to the co operatives in USA