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Cooperative Development

• The Center has partnered with Cooperative Network in the Great Lakes Cooperative Center to provide assistance for cooperative ventures in emerging local food systems that provide opportunity to agricultural producers and rural communities.

Recent Articles and Publications

• NEW
  A Study of Co-op Business Development in Wisconsin and Minnesota: Fourteen Recent Start-ups in the Food and Agriculture Sectors by Courtney Berner
• NEW
  Forest Owner Cooperation in the Upper Midwest: Overview and Lessons Learned, 1998-2012 by E. G. Nadeau
• Worker Cooperative Case Study: Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing by Michael Billeaux, Anne Reynolds, Trevor Young-Hyman, and Ayca Zayim
• A Life-Cycle Perspective on Governing Cooperative Enterprises in Agriculture by Brent Hueth and Anne Reynolds from the Critical Issues for Agricultural Cooperatives collection in Choices magazine
• A Case Study of the Fifth Season Cooperative: From Conception to Incorporation, Now What? by Courtney Berner
• Case Study: Willy Street Grocery Cooperative by Courtney Berner
• Solidarity as a Business Model: A Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives Manual by Margaret Lund
• Benefiting from the Board: A Case Study by Anne Reynolds
• Limited Cooperative Association Statutes: An Update by Lynn Pitman

Research

• Cooperative Business Study (CBS)
• Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives (REIC) Phase I Report
• State-by-State Summaries of Co-op Economic Activity from REIC