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Rural Cooperatives
Review - June 2007
A quarterly email newsletter from the Rural Cooperatives
Center, with summaries of articles and news stories relevant to California's
rural cooperatives.
Beating the Odds: Reducing
Market Risk for Specialty Crops.
Material from the workshop held on May 22 2007 in Yuba City
Montana's
organic livestock producers
form co-op, focus on beef first.
The Prairie Star, March 31, 2007
Farm
Bill includes support for California specialty crop marketers, including
cooperatives.
LA Times, February 1, 2007
Rural Cooperatives Review, December 2006.
Jim
Brabeck, CEO and President of San Luis Obispo’s Farm Supply Co.
San Luis Obispo Tribune, Nov 15, 2006
Tim
Lindgren new President of Sunkist Growers.
Sunkist, September 20, 2006
Bee
Sweet, a citrus grower/packer/shipper, merging with Sunkist.
Sunkist, September 21, 2006
Purchasing
Cooperatives enhance bargaining power and lower costs
Cooperative Business Journal, May/June 2006
ARTICLE:
Use of LLC-Cooperative Statutes
by Tracey L. Kennedy and Donald A. Frederick.
Paramount
Citrus Association leaving Sunkist Growers cooperative
Fresno Bee, August 16, 2006
Cortez
Growers celebrates 75 years of looking for ways to become better
Modesto Bee, July 17, 2006
Calcot
Calcot, SWIG agree to consider combining cooperatives, Western Farm Press,
Jun 8, 2006.
Sunkist
product promotes good health
Sunkist, March 6, 2006
Davis'
Housing Co-op Remains Strong.
Davis housing co-op turning 20. Davis Enterprise, Feb 27, 2006
Sunsweet
moves into Chile
After
two of the worst dried plum harvests in living memory, Yuba City-based Sunsweet
Growers Inc. is expanding into Chile for backup fruit to feed its multinational
distribution channels.
Sacramento
Bee, December 4, 2005
Calcot
"Calcot,
...the cotton marketing cooperative and second largest U.S. cotton exporter,
is taking its expertise for world marketing of high quality cotton to Texas."
Western Farm Press, Oct 18, 2005
WAGES Celebrates Ten Years
The mission of WAGES is to promote the social and economic empowerment of
low-income women through cooperative business ownership.
National Cooperative Bank's
latest TOP 100 cooperatives list.
The top 100 co-ops in the US in 2003 included 39 agricultural cooperatives
with revenues totaling $52.8 billion.
The Bottom Line on the Conversion of
Diamond Walnut. Shermain Hardesty,
ARE Update, July/August 2005
Another
Proposed Cooperative Conversion. Chicago Tribune, August 11, 2005
Diamond
Walnut co-op going public. Sacramento Bee,
July 2, 2005.
New
State Statutes Allow Nonmember Equity Capital for Cooperatives. Shermain
Hardesty
Positioning California's Agricultural Cooperatives for the Future.
Shermain
Hardesty, ARE Update, Vol. 8, No. 3, Jan/Feb, 2005
The
Bankruptcy of Tri Valley Growers: What Went Wrong and What Can We Learn From
It? Himawan Hariyoga and Richard J. Sexton, ARE Update, Vol.7, No.6, July/Aug,
2004
Lessons
from a Failed Cooperative: The Rice Growers Association Experience.
Jennifer. Keeling, ARE Update, Vol.7, No.3, Jan/Feb, 2004
A Legal Sourcebook For
California Cooperatives: Start-up & Administration. click
for info.
-book, 3rd Edition. Van P. Baldwin. (including sample forms).
1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616. Tel: (530) 752-2408, Fax. (530) 752-5451
ruralcoops@ucdavis.edu
