Case Studies Cooperatives

Founded in 1911, Beach Cooperative Grain Company has been building customer loyalty and a reputation for quality for well over 100 years as one of North Dakota’s last independent, full-service grain cooperatives. Levi Hall has been the general manager at Beach Cooperative since 2015. Growing up on a small cattle operation, Hall’s interest in agriculture […]

“Are we unique? Heavens no,” says Agronomy manager Chuck Peter. “Are the tools we have at our disposal unique? Definitely not.” How, then, has StateLine Cooperative spent the last 19 years as a profitable farming coop in Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota? Especially in light of the recession and turbulent commodities prices? “The degree of […]

Most often, generalizations don’t work. That’s especially true in agriculture where blanket approaches—like big data and big regulation—don’t take into account the endless variations from field to field, farmer to farmer, year to year and input to input. To avoid having government regulators make sweeping generalizations that tell farmers what they can or cannot put […]

Nebraska is home to nine of the United States’ Top 100 agricultural cooperatives according to recently released USDA data. Located in the Golden Triangle in Aurora, Nebraska, Aurora Cooperative is one of these leading organizations. For more than 107 years, Aurora Cooperative has been a partner in the agricultural success of regional producers, delivering the […]