P aul D. E arl . The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers

The United Grain Growers (UGG) was established in 1906 as the Grain Growers’ Grain Company, and in 1917 it merged with the Alberta Farmers’ Co-operative Elevator Company to become the UGG. In doing so, it joined several other cooperatives that attempted, among other things, to wrest control of Canadian grain marketing from private interests. In 2001, it merged with Agricore to become Agricore United, and in 2007 the UGG came to an end as a result of a hostile take-over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, which by that time was a publicly traded corporation, not a cooperative. As with other good institutional histories, Paul D. Earl’s The Rise and Fall of the United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise does more than simply trace the establishment, growth, and ultimate demise of the UGG. Along the way, Earl describes the various ways in which the company struggled over time...

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