Agricultural Cooperatives
Agricultural cooperatives provide their member farmers with opportunities to share production resources, marketing expenses, and product. Other agricultural cooperatives are actually credit cooperatives providing members with a credit union for financing farming expenses. By sharing the costs of farming equipment, fuel, seed, and fertilizers, … Keep Reading → small farmers are able to be competitive and remain in business. By joining an agricultural cooperative, a farmer may be able to produce a consumer desired but low market crop that commercial farms deem unprofitable. Examples of agricultural cooperatives include these familiar names Blue Diamond Growers, Land O’Lakes dairy, Ocean Spray, Fonterra, United Grain Growers, Sunkist Growers and the United Egg Producers. Explore the world of agricultural cooperatives here.
