The United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain farmers' cooperative for grain storage and distribution that operated between 1917 and 2001.

History

Tent for the Grain Growers. Grain Co., a cooperative farmers organization in Canada that was the precursor of the United Grain Growers, cica. 1910.

In 1917, the Grain Growers' Grain Company (GGGC) merged with the Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company, founded in 1913, to form the United Grain Growers (UGG), which provided grain marketing, handling and supply.[1] UGG was active in grain sales, crop inputs and livestock production services.[2]

In 2001, UGG merged with Agricore to form Agricore United in a deal brokered by Archer Daniels Midland, a majority stakeholder in the new company.[2]

Gallery and locations

Alberta

Rowley
Warner

British Columbia

Creston

Manitoba

Barnsley
Boissevain
Inglis – Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic Site
Killarney (Demolished 2017)

Saskatchewan

Lake Valley

See also

References

  1. ^ Fairbairn 2014.
  2. ^ a b (2001) "United Grain Growers and Agricore sprout merger," Archived CBC News. Retrieved August 1, 2007.

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