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Producer Alliances and Governance

  • Agricultural Production Clubs: Viability and Welfare Implications, Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University, 2006 - This paper studies the formation of a group, modeled as a club, that has adopted the standards to ensure quality and origin of goods.
  • Cooperatives and Contracting in Agriculture: The Case of West Liberty Foods, Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) Working Paper 05-WP 408, 2005 - The West Liberty Foods turkey cooperative was formed in 1996 to purchase the assets and assume operations of Louis Rich Foods (an investor-owned processing firm), which, at the time, announced the imminent shutdown of its West Liberty, Iowa, processing facility. The authors study the creation and performance of this "new generation" cooperative using field interviews with grower members and company management.
  • Positioning California's Agricultural Cooperatives for the Future, University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, ARE Update, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2004.
 
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