Starting a consumer food cooperative is a way of creating a market for your food products.

For more information on this topic, see the links listed below of articles posted on related Web sites.

• Introduction to Consumer Food Cooperatives – University of Missouri Extension -- More people are becoming interested in establishing cooperatives to handle groceries.
• Consumer Co-ops: Steps in Organizing a New Pre-Order Food Cooperative – University of Missouri Extension -- This information is for a small group of organizers who want to establish a new pre-order food cooperative.
  
• Consumer Co-ops: Managing a Pre-Order Food Cooperative – University of Missouri Extension -- A pre-order cooperative can offer its members savings on conventional supermarket food prices and/o r food of higher quality than available elsewhere except at a premium price.
  
• Consumer Co-ops: Essential Elements of Managing a Food Cooperative – University of Missouri Extension -- Food cooperatives come in all shapes, sizes and temperaments — pre-orders and stores, small and large, based around natural foods and a larger range of foods.
  
• Consumer Co-ops: Orienting New Members – University of Missouri Extension -- Every cooperative, small or large, will bring in new members at one time or another.
  
• Liability of Farm Employers – University of Missouri Extension -- Farm owners and operators who hire employees increase their potential liability.
  
• Managing Farm Labor – University of Missouri Extension -- Farm labor management involves hiring and keeping quality farm labor.