Managing Risk: Farmer Co-op Conference eyes strategies for doing business in volatile marketplace

摘要

Equity and capital management issues continue to drive major strategic decisionmaking by today's farmer cooperatives. Against a backdrop of volatile markets and global competition, cooperatives must develop strategies that balance growth imperatives against risk and supply chain cost management. More than 170 cooperative board members, CEOs and others doing business with agricultural cooperatives gathered in St. Paul, Minn., in November to discuss "Cooperative Strategy, Structure and Finance" at thellth annual Farmer Cooperatives Conference, organized by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives.