In an era of rapid consolidation in banking, the effect of mergers on the availability of credit to agricultural …

Since 1990, the farmer cooperative landscape has experienced a significant structural shift. Steep consolidation … efficiencies for a set of grain marketing and farm supply cooperatives using a unique financial database. Chow test statistics for … overall efficiency model show one structural shift in 2002 and 2003. Cooperatives are more likely to reduce costs by focusing …

Formation of the Producers Export Company (PEC) in 1958 was a first attempt by grain cooperatives to develop an export …

The article presents selected legal and economic aspects of dairy co-operatives and co-operative groups of agricultural … to the issue of financing the actions of cooperatives from EU funds. In addition, the article presents the basic concepts … concerning cooperatives as milk purchasing entities and milk market. Milk production is a source of regular monthly income for …

The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete …

Grain/fertilizer volumes are major risks for grain/supply cooperatives followed by fertilizer and fuel margins …

credit in Brazil and the paper of the agricultural cooperatives in the formal system as in the informal of credit. After … the National System of Rural Credit to the producers and their cooperatives doesn't assist the existent demand and … of the financial agents in granting credit to the cooperatives, due to the existent imperfections in the agricultural …

literature and illustrate how they relate to the function and structure of cooperatives. …

with cooperatives or investorowned firms. A propensity score matching method is used to compare prices using contract data … from a national farm-level survey. The results show that prices of agricultural contracts with cooperatives are not … significantly different from those with investor-owned firms, which indicates that cooperatives are adhering to recommended business …