United Grain Growers

United Grain Growers
Industry Agriculture
Fate Merged with Agricore
Successor Agricore United
Founded 1917
Defunct 2001
Headquarters Winnipeg, Manitoba
Products Grain buying

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. 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]

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. ↑ (2001) "United Grain Growers and Agricore sprout merger," CBC News. Retrieved 8/17/07.

Sources

  • Fairbairn, Brett (2014). "UNITED GRAIN GROWERS (AGRICORE UNITED)". Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan=. Retrieved 2014-09-12.


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