Cooperatives in Farm Labor
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Extension Farm Labor Program
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Extension Farm Labor Program
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Farm Credit Administration
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 952
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Csaba Csaki
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-11-28
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0429695837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1993, this is a study of agricultural co-operatives. The farming structure in transition countries has shifted from dominance of large corporate farms to family smallholdings. Smallholders everywhere experience difficulties with access to market services, including sale of products, purchase of inputs, and acquisition of machinery; they suffer from credit shortages and have limited access to information and advisory services. The barriers to market access prevent smallholders from fully exploiting their inherent productivity advantages. Best-practice world experience highlights farmers' service cooperatives, created by grassroots users, as the most effective way of improving the market access of small farmers. Service cooperatives also help smallholders overcome market failures, when private business entrepreneurs are unwilling to provide services in areas that they judge unprofitable or unfairly exploit users through monopolistic practices. These difficulties and market failures are prominent in transition countries and scholars accordingly expected rapid development of agricultural service cooperatives in response to smallholder needs. The present volume explores gaps between expectations and reality.
Author: Steven James Keillor
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780873513777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By 1940, Minnesota was known as one the most cooperative-minded states in the Union. More than 600 cooperative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were proof of the power of economic cooperation, and they made Minnesota into a "cooperative commonwealth."