United Grain Growers

United Grain Growers
Industry	Agriculture
Founded	1917
Defunct	2001
Fate	Merged with Agricore
Successor	Agricore United
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.^[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 & locations[]

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

Inglis - Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic Site.

Killarney, (Demolished 2017)

Saskatchewan

Lake Valley.

References[]

^ Fairbairn 2014.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b (2001) "United Grain Growers and Agricore sprout merger," Archived CBC News. Retrieved 8/17/07.

Sources[]

Fairbairn, Brett (2014). "UNITED GRAIN GROWERS (AGRICORE UNITED)". Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Archived from the original on 2015-04-24. Retrieved 2014-09-12.