@article{Holder:312445,
      recid = {312445},
      author = {Holder, David L. and Hepp, Ralph E.},
      title = {Cooperative Strategies for the Pork Industry},
      address = {1978-07},
      number = {2393-2021-2023},
      series = {Marketing Research Report No. 1097},
      pages = {46},
      year = {1978},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report Preface:  Significant changes are  taking place in the swine industry.  Many, such as  largescale corporate farming and contracting, threaten the  very existence of the family farm.  Therefore, the authors  sought appropriate cooperative activities that could keep  the family farm competitive with other production systems,  and thereby encourage survival of the family farm.   Alternative cooperative activities and strategies were  developed through personal contacts with farm supply and  livestock marketing and processing cooperatives, family  farms, large corporate farms, equipment and building  suppliers, and others connected with the industry.  A  number of cooperatives offering their producers innovative  production, marketing and processing programs are named in  this report.  They are named as examples only and no  attempt was made to prepare a complete list of cooperatives  offering such programs.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/312445},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.312445},
}