farmer cooperatives
Growers' shared organizations
Farmer cooperatives are businesses owned and operated collectively by agricultural producers who pool resources, share costs, and market products together.
Members retain individual farm ownership while gaining collective bargaining power: The farmer cooperative negotiated better prices for grain than any single grower could.
Cooperatives may handle purchasing, processing, distribution, or credit services for their members.
- family farmsKin-run agricultural operations
- price negotiationDiscussing terms of payment
- profit-sharingDistributing earnings among workers
- bulk purchasingOrdering in large quantities
- buying clubGroup for wholesale access
organic farming · collective bargaining · dispute mediation · legal advocacy · economies of scale · tax incentives · board elections · water management · conflict resolution · trust building · crop rotation · cash crops · harvest season · grain elevator · sustainable farming · agricultural · farm bureau · community engagement
farmer cooperativesfactory farms
Industrial-scale animal production sites
industrial agriculture · corporate farms · plantation agriculture · contract farming · tenant farming
farmer cooperativescorporate consolidation
Merging of business entities