The United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an association of Alberta farmers that has served different roles in its 100-year history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1935 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary. It also was a farmers' lobby group and a political party that formed the government of Alberta from 1921 to 1935.
As of 2012, UFA operates 35 farm and ranch supply stores in Alberta, over 100 fuel stations in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan., and 25 outdoor adventure sporting goods stores in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest.
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