Past research has established the necessity of farmer participation for a cooperative’s success. However, there is a lack of study on whether the reverse is true, i.e., whether participating in cooperatives benefits farmers. The aim here is to address that important issue using the 2005 ARMS...

We analyse the impact of proposed changes in US legislation to allow greater use of dairy concentrate products in the production of fresh milk products. This change could potentially have a large impact on dairy trade as US tariffs on concentrated dairy products are low relative to average dairy...