Farmer Co-ops: Taking a Seat at Our Table

For more than 100 years, farmer-owned cooperatives have provided individual farmers with a stake in the marketplace. Farmer co-ops are made up of thousands of individual farmers that work together to succeed in a global marketplace. Whether a farmer has 40 acres of oranges or 4,000 acres of soybeans, co-ops allow farmers to pool their risks and better manage agriculture’s volatility. (USDA blog) Read more.