Author: Donald A. FrederickPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Managing Cooperative Antitrust Risk
Author: Donald A. FrederickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Director Liability in Agricultural Cooperatives
Author: Douglas FeePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Farmer's Benevolent Trust
Author: Victoria Saker WoestePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786711X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self- sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural society long after industrialization radically transformed the business of agriculture. Even as farmers enthusiastically embraced cooperative marketing to create unprecedented industry- wide monopolies and control prices, they claimed they were simply preserving their traditional place in society. In fact, the new legal form of cooperation far outpaced judicial and legislative developments at both the state and federal levels, resulting in a legal and political struggle to redefine the place of agriculture in the industrial market. Woeste shows that farmers were adept at both borrowing such legal forms as the corporate trust for their own purposes and obtaining legislative recognition of the new cooperative style. In the process, however, the first rule of capitalism--every person for him- or herself--trumped the traditional principle of cooperation. After 1922, state and federal law wholly endorsed cooperation's new form. Indeed, says Woeste, because of its corporate roots, this model of cooperation fit so neatly with the regulatory paradigms of the first half of the twentieth century that it became an essential policy of the modern administrative state.
Agricultural Cooperatives in the 21st Century
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly
Author: Jon LauckPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080329526X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers' concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads in the late nineteenth century. Jon Lauck examines the dimensions of this problem in the American Midwest in the decades following World War II. He analyzes the nature of competition within meat-packing and grain markets. In addition, he addresses concerns about corporate entry into production agriculture and the potential displacement of a production system defined by independent family farms. Lauck also considers the ability of farmers to organize in order to counter the market power of large-scale agribusiness buyers. He explores the use of farmer cooperatives and other mechanisms which may increase the bargaining power of farmers. The book offers the first serious historical examination of the National Farmers Organization, which fully embraced the bargaining power cause in the postwar period. Lauck finds that independent farmers' attempts at organization have been more successful than previously recognized, but he also shows that their successes have been undermined by the growing concentration and power of agri-business firms, justifying a new approach to antitrust law in agricultural markets.
Cooperatives in Agribusiness
Author: United States. Farmer Cooperative ServicePublisher:
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Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Legal Phases of Farmer Cooperatives
Author: United States. Farmer Cooperative ServicePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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American Cooperation
Author: American Institute of CooperationPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
1968- include Land-Grant University Conference on Farmers Cooperatives. [Papers].
Capper-Volstead Impact on Cooperative Structure
Author: Joseph G. KnappPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Cooperatives and Local Development
Author: Christopher D. MerrettPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315290286
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
First Published in 2004. The market economy has changed profoundly over the past two centuries. In the nineteenth century, business enterprises were largely single-product ventures, managed directly by the owners and rooted within national economies. In the twentieth century, firms employed managers who were not owners. Firms also evolved into multiproduct, multiunit entities that could employ thousands of workers. In the twenty-first century, many firms operate on a global scale, taking advantage of free trade policies and rapidly evolving computer and telecommunications technologies. Given this potential, it is crucial that producers, consumers, economic developers, and researchers realize how co-ops can promote local economic and community development. Hence, this book includes the perceptions of experts on a variety of cooperative issues, including the challenges involved in starting a co-op and in understanding its impact on surrounding communities. This book can be especially useful because it provides the theoretical foundations and practical applications of cooperative behavior.