Co-op strategies to be focus at Farmer Co-op Conference

Rural Cooperatives, Sept-Oct, 2007

The 10th Annual Farmer Cooperatives Conference, organized by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, will be held November 5-6, 2007, in St. Paul, Minn.

The conference will focus on "Valuing the Cooperative Business in the 21st Century," and will include sessions that explore the value maximization of cooperative assets and business structure strategies for the future. It will look at the business structure changes at FCStone Group, South Dakota Soybean Processors, Gold Kist and others. Other topics will include benchmarks and performance optimization and understanding the value of the cooperative during times of change.

Conference, program and registration information is posted on the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives website at www.uwcc.wisc.edu/farmercoops07. For questions about the conference, contact: Anne Reynolds, University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, (608) 263-4775, atreynol@wisc.edu.