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The
purpose of the Value-Added
Reference Guide
is to provide comprehensive information
about adding value to agricultural commodities.
One specific way to accomplish adding value is to form cooperatives
with the expressed purpose to add value to raw commodities through further
processing and/or marketing.
The Value-Added
Reference Guide is divided into five sections:. The first section describes
what adding value to agricultural products really means. The second
section has information about New Generation Cooperatives. General
information about cooperatives is found in section three. The fourth
section provides information for starting a business and the final section
contains directories for New Generation Cooperatives and a resource guide
for professional consultants.
Section 1:
What's Value-Added?
Section 2:
Considering Cooperatives
Section 3: USDA: Understanding
Cooperatives
Section 4: Starting Your Business
Section 5: Directories & Assistance
Contents
of this publication may be freely reproduced for educational purposes with
attribution. All other rights are reserved. In each case, credit Value-Added
Reference Guide, Kansas Cooperative Development Center, as well as
each selected document’s author and publisher.
The
Resource Directory of Professional Consultants, found in section
five, will be updated as additional information is gathered. Listing of
professional consultants listed should not be construed as an endorsement
or to be all-inclusive, but for information only.
Please
provide comments, additions or deletions that would make this
notebook more useful to you.
- Special
thanks to the following institutions for allowing us to reprint and
distribute their publications:
- Quentin
Burdick Center for Cooperatives, North Dakota State University
- University
of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
- Department
of Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University
- Illinois
Institute for Rural Affairs, Western Illinois University
- USDA
Rural Business–Cooperative Services, Rural
Cooperatives
This page was last updated on
November 22, 2004
Copyright
2003, Kansas State University
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