Technologies such as digitally-equipped agricultural equipment, drones, image recognition, sensors, robots and artificial intelli-gence are being rapidly adopted throughout the agrifood system. As a result, actors in the system are generating and using ever more data. While this is already...

Since the 1990s, producers of farm commodities have been attempting to enter value-added agri-food sectors by means of joint ownership of hybrid cooperatives. New generation cooperatives, characterized by substantial supply and equity requirements, inspired much farm producer optimism before...