Useful Internet Links

The following documents and web sites, many of which have been used as sources in this site, may provide further information regarding NGCs:

“Guidebooks”:

Agricultural cooperatives: A startup guide

• Source: Harris, Andrea
• Date: 1998
• Located at the Farm Business Management Information Network for B.C. web site.  Can be accessed at http://farmcentre.com/bc/publish/coop1.pdf .

New generation co-operatives for agricultural processing and value-added projects: A development guide

• Source: Saskatchewan Economic and Co-operative Development
• Date: 1999
• Available online at http://www.gov.sk.ca/econdev/welcome/publicat.shtml 

Saskatchewan Economic and Co-operative Development
1919 Saskatchewan Drive
Regina, Saskatchewan  S4P 3V7
Phone: (306) 787-2215
e-mail: art.newton@ecd.gov.sk.ca

Forming our co-operative: Information kit for entrepreneurs

• Source: Co-operatives Secretariat
• Date: Unknown
• Located at the Co-operative Secretariat’s web site www.agr.ca/policy/coop/kitcoop/index.html

Cooperatives: A tool for community economic development

• Source: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
• Date: 1998
• Located at the Center for Cooperative’s web site www.wisc.edu/uwcc/info/coopdev.html . 

Creating ‘Co-op Fever’: A rural developer’s guide to forming cooperatives

• Source: Patrie, Bill
• Date: 1998
• Located at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business – Cooperative Service’s web site

www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/sr54.pdf  or
www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/sr54/sr54.htm 

How to start a cooperative

• Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Date: 1996
• Located at the USDA’s Rural Business – Cooperative Service web site www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/cir7/cir7rpt.htm or www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/cir7/cir7.pdf

 
 

"Member-related" information:

Various North Dakota State University Extension Service booklets.
Located at the NDSU Extension Service’s web site:

Five questions to ask before joining a new processing cooperative 

• Date: 1996
• Located at www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/agecon/farmmgt/ec1108w.htm

Should I join a new processing cooperative?

• Date: 1996
• Located at www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/agecon/farmmgt/eb67w.htm 

New generation cooperative membership: How do members differ from nonmembers?

• Date: 1998
• Located at www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/agecon/er/er40w.htm 

What new generation cooperative officials should know about members and their concerns

• Date: 1998
• Located at www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/agecon/er/er41w.htm

Questions and answers about agriculture loan officers and farmers’ investments in new generation cooperatives

• Date: 1998
• Located at www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/agecon/er/er42w.htm

Miscellaneous:

New generation cooperatives on the Northern Plains

• Project funded by Agri-Food Research & Development Initiative (ARDI)
• Source: Oleson, Brian and Michelle Bielik
• Date: 1999
• Located at the University of Manitoba's Department of Agricultural Economics & Farm Management web site: www.umanitoba.ca/afs/agric_economics/ardi/ .

University of Saskatchewan's Centre for the Study of Co-operatives

• The Centre's web site includes various material regarding NGCs, including links to other sources of information, some of which are already listed here.
• The site is located at http://coop-studies.usask.ca/NGC/NGC.html.

New generation co-operative development: The economic environment in North Dakota and Minnesota and lessons for Saskatchewan

• Source: Fulton, Murray and Julie Kennet
• Date: 1999
• Located at the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives web site www.coop_studies.usask.ca/pdf-files/NGCDevelopment.pdf 

New generation cooperatives: Rebuilding rural economies

• Source: Stefanson, B., M. Fulton and A. Harris
• Date: 1995
• Located at the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives web site http://coop-studies.usask.ca/pdf-files/Rebuilding.pdf .

New generation cooperatives: Responding to changes in agriculture

• Source: Stefanson, Brenda and Murray Fulton
• Date: 1997
• Located at the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives web site http://coop-studies.usask.ca/pdf-files/BrendaNGC.pdf 

 Financing agricultural cooperatives: An overview

• Source: Harris, Andrea.
• Located at the Farm Business Management Information Network for B.C. web site.  Can be accessed at http://www.farmcentre.com/bc/publish/coop2.pdf .

 

Farmers slow to embrace new generation co-ops

• Source: Western Producer
• Author: Sean Pratt
• Date: January 4, 2001
• Located at Western Producer web site

New Generation Cooperatives: A Western Producer Special Report, May 6, 1999

• Source: The Western Producer
• Author: Ian Bell
• Date: May 6, 1999
• Includes several articles relating to NGCs
• Located at the Western Producer web site

Agricultural adaptation: A co-operative approach:
Canadian Agricultural Co-operatives: Critical Success Factors in the 21st Century

• Source: Canadian Co-operative Association
• Date: 2000/2001
• Various reports outline the challenges and pressures that agricultural co-operatives are currently facing
• Authors are Murray Fulton, Daniel Cote, and Julie Gibbings
• Located at the Co-operative Association's web site

 

University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

• Information about new generation cooperatives
• Located at the Center for Cooperative’s web site www.wisc.edu/uwcc/info/newge.html

Legislation:

Manitoba Cooperatives Act

• Manitoba Government. Statutory Publications web site
• Located at www.gov.mb.ca/chc/statpub/free/legdbindexena-f.html

Business start-up:

 Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre

• provides “single window” access to all government programs and services
• located at www.cbsc.org/manitoba/index.html 
• physical location is:

Room 250-240
Graham Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Phone: (204) 984-2272
Toll free: 1-800-665-2019

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