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 …

to the effect of participation in marketing and supply cooperatives on the success of small farms. Using modified net … participation in marketing and supply cooperatives is positively correlated with success. Further, analysis findings indicate farm … farm income per dollar of assets and operator’s labor and management income as measures of success, results show …

maize in Mali, the organization of the marketing channels and players, and the characteristics of the main consumption …

A personal interview survey of 87 grain marketing cooperatives regarding the impact of changes in government programs … adapted to each unique situation.Key Words: Cooperatives, marketing strategies, farm programs, grain marketing, country … economies from mergers are the recommended strategies for survival. Strategies individual cooperatives selected should be …

seen in low yield levels, indebtedness, lack of entrepreneurial skills as well as cooperatives’ management capacities. We …The marketing of coffee through group-based, certified market channels is often promoted by governments and donors as a … producers in northern Nicaragua who are organized in conventional, organic, and organic-fairtrade certified cooperatives. Our …

Forming and using cooperatives as marketing channel is usually advised to African smallholder farmers for overcoming … the constraint of market access. However, limited evidence of cooperative behavior in marketing has been observed. In this … paper, we estimate a two-stage model of commitment to cooperatives by cashew nut farmers in Benin, West Africa. In the first …

A personal interview survey of 87 grain marketing cooperatives regarding the impact of changes in government programs … adapted to each unique situation. Key Words: Cooperatives, marketing strategies, farm programs, grain marketing, country … economies from mergers are the recommended strategies for survival. Strategies individual cooperatives selected should be …

The Nation's 435 dairy cooperatives marketed 95.6 billion pounds of milk, or about 77 percent of all milk sold to … plants and dealers in 1980. There were 146 cooperatives with no milk handling facilities, 97 with only milk and cream … receiving stations, and 192 operating 456 dairy processing and manufacturing plants. Cooperatives sold about 16 percent of the …