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The Changing Financial Structure of Farmer Cooperatives

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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 1980-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Agribusiness.

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The Potential for Growth of Consumer Cooperatives: A Comparison with Producer Cooperatives

TL;DR: In this article, the potential for growth of consumer cooperatives will depend on the success of cooperatives in increasing management efficiency and in developing a range of more sophisticated financial instruments, including reorganizing as capital stock cooperatives and using borrowed capital.
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A Comparative Financial Ratio Analysis of U.S. Farmer Cooperatives Using Nonparametric Statistics

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative ratio analysis using nonparametric statistical methods provides no evidence to support the hypothesis that US farmer cooperatives generally are financially weaker than other firms Although some cooperative groups had lower current ratios than industry standards, most of these groups consisted of marketing associations.
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Financing Agricultural Cooperatives

TL;DR: In this paper, it has been indicated before that agricultural cooperatives are fundamentally different from proprietary forms of business organization in at least two areas (general management and financial management) and that they are distinct from each other.
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Cooperative Management Trio—Members, Directors, and Manager

TL;DR: In the first section of this book, we concerned ourselves with the why of agricultural cooperatives and contrasted this form of business organization with the other forms operating in a free enterprise economic system as discussed by the authors.