Industrial Development Bond Financing For Farmer Cooperatives
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A nationwide survey of 7,535 farmer cooperatives shows both large and
small cooperatives -- locals, region.a1s, and interregiona1s -- in 24
States using industrial development (ID) bonds for long-term debt.
financing to 'construct or expand grain elevators, pollution control
facilities, feed mills. fertilizer plants, fluid milk plants, and
warehouses. As of June 1979,.52 cooperatives had 130 projects financed
with ID bonds totaling $265 million, with a median of $1 million per
project. Although ID bonds originated in Mississippi in 1936, major
co-op use of these tax-exempt bonds occurred after 1975, when 62
percent of all such co-op ID bond-financed projects originated.