Recently added articles from Rural Cooperatives:
Cooperatives make good sense, serve their communities.(Commentary)
Nov 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Editor's note: this guest commentary originally appeared in the Anchorage Daily News. Last spring Alaska's Matanuska Telephone Association mailed checks to our member/owners, ranging in size from $10 to $24,000. These were capital credits ...
What cooperatives are (and aren't): economist says co-ops represent the aggregates of economic units.
Nov 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many factors are converging to bring new attention to the cooperative business model. Discussions about a possible role for co-ops as part of national health-care reform and an explosion of interest in local foods, farmers markets and community-supported ...
What is democratic control?(Legal Corner)
Nov 01, 2009; ... The cooperative business model is drawing extra attention these days in the media. Industries such as health care, dairy and utilities have attracted headlines and sparked discussions about what cooperatives are and how they function. Furthermore, members within cooperatives are retooling ...
Storm shelter: dairy co-ops strive to help members survive severe market downturn.(Industry overview)
Nov 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the national and world economies fell into recession in the fall of 2008, the impact slammed home with a vengeance on many farms across the nation. But few have borne the brunt as heavily as dairy farmers. "It would be difficult to ...
Banking on the future: U.S. farm credit co-op model paying dividends in Armenia.
Nov 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Editor's note: Karg is a freelance writer from Baraboo, Wis., with extensive experience working with cooperatives. She currently lives in Armenia, where she is a volunteer with the United Methodist Committee on Relief/Armenia. She also is an agricultural ...