Financial conditions facilitating growth in local farmer cooperatives

Abstract

"The main objective of this study is to identify and describe the financial conditions which support growth in local farmer cooperatives in the Plains States and the Midwestern States. Achieving the following sub-objectives is essential to achievement of the main objective. 1. Determine a growth measure for local farmer cooperatives and identify financial ratios which have a strong relationship to growth in local farmer cooperatives. 2. Construct a model for predicting growth in local farmer cooperatives. The hypothesis inherent in this sub-objective is: A growth model constructed from financial ratios can predict growth or non-growth of a local farmer cooperative. 3. Use financial ratios to describe the financial conditions which support growth in local farmer cooperatives."--Page 3.