Features

Ag co-op sales and income second highest on record

Chipping In
Austrian co-ops play role in making nation a leader in wood biomass energy production
By Scott Bagley and Bob Parker

Canadian farmers see benefits of local farm machinery co-ops
By Colette Lebel

LookWho’s Minding the Store
Student-run supply co-ops short-lived, but the concepts they teach live on

Taking Root
Co-op Month special section

eXtending Co-op Knowledge
Extension Service website to include co-op education area
By Lynette Spicer

Biofuel Prometheus
Like its namesake, Promethean Biofuels hopes to better mankind with new source of energy
By Stephen Thompson


Departments

COMMENTARY
UTILITY CO-OP CONNECTION
NEWSLINE


ON THE COVER: The nation’s network of Cooperative Development
Centers play a major role in helping new co-ops sprout. A Co-op Month
special section,takes a look at some of these
centers and the co-ops they are helping.