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- Title
Reluctant Producers.
- Authors
Van Lanen, Amanda
- Abstract
The article discusses the efforts to create cooperative marketing among apple growers in Washington, focusing on the benefits associated with creating cooperatives and the reluctance of growers to join them. Other topics include the relationship between railroad companies and the apple growers in Washington, the branding of Washington apples to increase recognition, and the competition between Washington apple growers and New York apple growers to earn the dominant position in the market.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WASHINGTON (State); APPLE industry; APPLES; MARKETING cooperatives; RAILROADS; HISTORY of railroads; BRANDING (Marketing); ECONOMIC competition; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; MARKETING
- Publication
Journal of the West, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0022-5169
- Publication type
Article