Farmers Electric Cooperative (Arkansas)

Farmers Electric Cooperative Corporation is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Newport, Arkansas.

The Cooperative was organized in 1937 and the first power lines were energized in August 1938.

The Cooperative serves portions of four counties in the state of Arkansas, in a territory generally surrounding Newport: Independence, Jackson, Poinsett, and Woodruff.

Currently (as of September 2005) the Cooperative has more than 975 miles of distribution lines, and services 5,262 members.

External links

By governance

Consumer	Cooperative federation list Cooperative wholesale society

Worker (list)	Employee ownership Workers' self-management Workers' control Workplace democracy Business and employment co-operative

Purchasing	Retailers' cooperative

Other	Social cooperative Agent-owned company

By purpose

Banking	Credit union Mutual savings bank Savings and loan association Building society

Housing	Building Cohousing Student housing Housing society (egalitarian) Intentional community

Agricultural	Collective farming Reforestation Winemaking Wheat pool

Utility (list)	Community wind energy Electric Telephone

Mutual education	Anarchistic free school Homeschool Democratic education Learning by teaching

Mutual insurance	Health insurance cooperative

Other	Food list Recycling

Topics

Identity	Rochdale Principles ICA Statement on the Cooperative Identity

Political and economic theories	Co-operative economics Cooperative federalism Distributism Economic democracy Mutualism Neo-Capitalism Owenism Social enterprise Socialism Socially responsible investing Solidarity economy

Key theorists	G. D. H. Cole Charles Gide David Griffiths William King Robert Owen Friedrich Raiffeisen David Schweickart Rochdale Pioneers Beatrice Webb

By region	Canada Ukraine United Kingdom United States

Organizations	List of cooperatives Worker Energy Federations International Co-operative Alliance Co-operative Party

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