Recommended Citation
Published in Rural Cooperatives Center: Report, September 1, 2002, pages 1-152.
Abstract
Recent concerns relative to California farm gate prices for wheat and a lack of profitability in wheat production has been expressed by a group of California wheat growers. Their dissatisfaction has resulted in their consideration to form a California wheat grower cooperative. The cooperative would become the marketing agent for the growers and potentially allow growers to pool their production for greater market power as well as capture profits beyond the farm gate. Two feasibility issues are addressed by the study: 1) The organizational feasibility of forming the cooperative, and 2) The economic feasibility of a California wheat growers cooperative engaging in value-added marketing opportunities upstream from the farm gate that would result in increased the return to wheat grower production. The objective of the study was to evaluate those feasibilities.
Disciplines
Agribusiness | Agricultural and Resource Economics | Business
Copyright
2002 by Jay E. Noel, James J. Ahern, David, J. Schaffner, Jill Johnson, Kristina Muelrath, Kyle Schroeder
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/agb_fac/52