This publication reviews the legal and business structure alternatives available to those forming business structures in New York State. A framework is developed for assessing various business structural options. Six business organizational forms are discussed, including: 1) sole...

Agricultural cooperatives have historically played an important role in marketing farm products produced in New York State dating back to the 1800’s. Some of the first dairy marketing cooperatives organized in the U.S. were formed in New York. Many early dairy cooperatives were created to...

It has been a long time since we have seen a cost of production study for horticultural crops, notably processing vegetable crops, in New York State; however, research in this arena is completed in many other states and continues to offer useful information to industry stakeholders. This type of...

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the literature and the debate over agrienvironmental program effectiveness in the European Union (EU) and the US, with emphasis on examples in the Northeastern US and Germany. A particular concern is arrangements for blending regulatory and compensatory...