Farm supply cooperatives are an important component of the retail agribusiness industry in the United States. The … objective of this research is to identify financial variables that are determinants of return on equity in these cooperatives …

cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach Review of and descriptive analysis of current cooperative finance topics. Findings In … recent years three important trends have become apparent among grain marketing and farm supply cooperatives. These farmer … pursued consolidation with other cooperatives. Originality/value Grain and farm supply cooperatives are changing at a rapid …

Agricultural cooperatives have been restructuring, by way of mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures, and strategic … reorganization of cooperatives has revealed that less than one-half of the restructured businesses are financially successful. There … cooperatives are using when evaluating new business opportunities, and (b) what factors influence the methods of valuation …

cooperatives. Data from 291 cooperatives were summarized for five types of dairy cooperatives, then by three types and three size …

Agricultural cooperatives have been restructuring, by way of mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures, and strategic … reorganization of cooperatives has revealed that less than one-half of the restructured businesses are financially successful. There … cooperatives are using when evaluating new business opportunities, and (b) what factors influence the methods of valuation …

The objective of this article is to describe the key elements of cooperative finance that have been found in the … literature and illustrate how they relate to the function and structure of cooperatives. …