New Generation Co-operatives -- Case Studies and Producer Stories

Canada

Presentation on the New Generation Co-operative: Farm Fresh Poultry Co-operative: A success story!
Canadian Co-operative Associaiton

Stefanson, Brenda and Murray Fulton. New Generation Co-operatives: Opportunities in Agricultural Processing. Saskatoon, SK: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, 1997.
---- 1 video cassette (21 mins.): includes 2 booklets and 2 Brochures

 

United States

"Cooperation Builds Farm Profits: A New Generation of Cooperatives Financed by Stock Sales To Farmers Promise Good Returns." Successful Farming 94, no. 6, (April 01, 1996): 26.

Directory of New Generation Co-operatives
(Illinois Institute For Rural Affairs)

Goreham, Gary. What New Generation Cooperative Officials Should Know About Members and their Concerns. Fargo, ND: NDSU Extension Service, 1998.

Goreham, Gary. Questions and Answers About Agriculture Loan Officers and Farmers' Investments in New Generation Cooperatives . Extension Report, no. 42. Fargo, ND: NDSU Extension Service, 1998.

Holmes, Mary, Norman Walzer and Christopher D. Merrett. New Generation Cooperatives : Case Studies. Macomb, IL: Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2000.

Gerber, Allan. Ed. The Practical Approach to New Generation Cooperatives: An Exchange of Cooperative Experience from Renville, Minnesota. St. Paul, MN: Minnesoata Association of Cooperatives, 1996

Gerber, Allan. Reviving Renville: A Cooperative Approach to Development. St. Paul, MN: Minnesoata Association of Cooperatives, 1996.
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Goreham, Gary, Frayne Olson, David Cobia and Brooks Wilson. Questions and Answers about Agriculture Loan Officers and Farmers' Investments in New Generation Cooperatives Department of Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, Extension Service. Extension Report No. 42, March 1998.

Jorgensen, N. "Cooperative Principles Still Work for New Generation Cooperative." American Cooperation (1997): 47-49.

New Generation Cooperatives: Lessons Learned. The Minnesota Ethanol Program.

Patrie, William. Creating 'Co-op Fever': A Rural Developer's Guide to Forming Cooperatives. Washington]: USDA, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, 1998.

Patrie, William. "Fever Pitch: A First-Hand Report From the Man Who Helped Spark Co-op Fever in the Northern Plains"
Rural Cooperatives July 1998.

Van Dyne, D. L. and M. G. Blase. "Crop Residues as Feedstocks of Choice for New Generation Cooperative Processing Plants." In Proceedings of the Biomass Conference of the Americas 1999, v. 14. N.p.: Elsevier Science, 1999.

Zeuli, Kim, Gary Goreham, Robert King, and Evert van der Sluis. Dakota Growers Pasta Company and the City of Carrington, North Dakota: A Case Study. N.p.: USDA, 1998.

"Thumbs Up Michigan Soybean Farmers Keeping Value at Home with New-Generation Cooperative." Rural Cooperatives 66, no. 6 (Nov/Dec 1999): 20-25.

Thyfault, C. "Developing New Generation Co-ops: Getting Started on the Path to Success." Rural Cooperatives 63, no. 4 (July/Aug 1996): 26-30.

"Traditional Principles still Work for New-Generation Cooperative." Rural Cooperatives 63, no. 5 (Sept/Oct 1996): 22-24.