Bill Fitzwater Endowed Cooperative Chair Publications and Newsletters
Publications
- Inventory Management for Farm Supply Cooperatives
- Over 25% of the assets of a typical farm supply cooperative are tied up in inventory. This publication describes goals and methods for inventory management including the IMI index, the purchasing plan, optimal re-order points and re-order quantities, managing shrink, seasonal items, and inventory control. Research results from a farm supply cooperative case study are also presented.
- Understanding Fertilizer Price Risk
- Describes fertilizer price risk in the context of overall production risk.
- Causes of Fertilizer Price Volatility
- Describes the structural changes in the US fertilizer supply chain which have led to increased price volatility.
- Managing Fertilizer Price Risk
- Describes strategies for minimizing fertilizer price risk.
- Evaluating Investment Opportunities
- Cooperatives are faced with many opportunities to investment in both traditional infrastructure and non-traditional areas. This publication discusses methods for project evaluation.
- Financial Statement Analysis for Agricultural Cooperatives
Related Publications
- A Dashboard for the Board
- Addressing the Equity Retirement Program
- Agricultural Finance Review
- Audit Committee
- Before the Bricks and Mortar: A Case Study of a New Generation Cooperative's Planning Process
- Challenges to Producer Ownership of Ethanol and Biodiesel Production Facilities
- Conducting Customer Satisfaction Surveys: A Guide for Food Processors
- Cooperative Management Series: Building the Board Packet
- Cooperative Management Series: Conducting Customer Satisfaction Surveys
- Cooperative Management Series: Customer Segmentation in Agricultural Cooperatives
- Cooperative Management Series: Directors Legal Handbook
- Cooperative Management Series: Directors Roles and Responsibilities
- Cooperative Management Series: Effective Board Meetings
- Cooperative Management Series: Effective Decision Making in the Board Room
- Cooperative Management Series: Evaluating Cooperative Managers
- Cooperative Management Series: Evaluating Investment Opportunities
- Cooperative Management Series: Evaluating the Board
- Cooperative Management Series: Parliamentary Procedure in the Board Room
- Cooperative Management Series: Parliamentary Procedure Quick Guide to Motions
- Cooperative Policy Development
- Economic Impact of Oklahoma Rural Electric Cooperatives
- Economic Potential of Unmanned Aircraft in Agricultural and Rural Electric Cooperatives
- Equity Management Systems
- Evolving Credit Needs of Cooperatives and Producer-Owned Businesses
- Factors Impacting Participation In and Purchases Made by Members of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative
- Feasibility of a Cooperative Winery
- Feasibility of a Shared Machinery Cooperative
- Feasibility of Producer Owned Canola Crush and Biodiesel Production Facility
- Fertilizer Blending Calculator
- Financial Decisions for the Board Case Study
- Financial Performance Analysis for Directors
- Human Resource Management in Agricultural Cooperatives
- Impact of a Stock Write-down on Cooperative Members
- Leading the Charge or Waiting for the Troops
- Livestock Marketing Cooperative Benefits in the 21st Century
- Opportunity for New Cooperative Business Models for Rural Utilities
- Options for Joint Machinery Ownership
- Organizing a Machinery Cooperative
- Pondering When to Hold Them and When to Fold Them
- Positioning for the Future
- Producers Cooperative Oil Mill: A Case Study in Cooperative Management
- Profit Distribution Alternatives
- Reinvest Revolve or Refund Case Study
- South Central Cooperative Case Study
- South Central Cooperative Case Study Liabilities
- Succession Planning
- The New Role of Agricultural Cooperatives in Pooling and Distributing Tax Deductions
- The Outside Officer
- The Run Away Board
- Transforming the Cooperatives for the Next Generation
- Understanding Cooperative Terminology
- Updating the Governance Structure Case Study
- Valuing the Cooperative Firm
Newsletters
- Cooperatives and Regulations
- Does Being a Cooperative Change the Mission?
- Per Unit Retains and a Look Back at the Grain Glitch
- Strategically Important Members
- Drift Proofing your Cooperative
- Patron Drift
- Celebrating Cooperative Independence
- Member Co-Op Decisions on Handling Non-Qualified Patronage from Federated Cooperatives
- Non-Qualified Regional Patronage
- Alignment Solutions from Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives
- What Can We Learn from Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives?
- More Insight from Representative Cooperatives
- Quantifying the Tradeoffs
- Allocating Overhead
- Member Responsibility or Member Opportunity?
- The Interesting Economics of Internships
- A Unique Partnership
- Designing the Perfect Cooperative
- The Boards Role in Cyber Security Risks
- Is Payroll an Expense or an Investment
- Are your Member Communications Hitting on all Cylinders?
- Patronage and Pricing
- The Fuzzy Math of Cash Patronage Percentages
- Give Members a Reason to Attend your Annual Meeting
- How Much Section 199A should we Pass on?
- Should You Invite the Devil into Your Board Room?
- We Recorded the Webinar Just for You!
- You Will Not Want to Miss this Upcoming Webinar!
- On a Mission to Create Committed Members
- Twas the Night Before Co-op
- Dealing with Regional Patronage
- A New Dimension of Member Diversity
- Some Tax Reform Discussions for the Board
- Some Simple Math on Retaining Profits
- In Praise of Allocated Equity!
- In Praise of Revolving Equity
- Cooperative Finance Fallacies
- Heterogeneity in Member Attitude
- Heterogeneity in Member Needs
- Heterogeneity in Agricultural Cooperatives
- Member Time Horizons in Agricultural Cooperatives
- Employees as Members in an Agricultural Cooperative
- Balance Sheet Goals and Section 199A
- Tax Reform and Cash Patronage
- Which One is Your Section 199A Hat?
- A Strategic View of Section 199A
- Swimming in the Patronage Pool
- Identifying your Cooperative's Core Competencies
- Nonqualified Stock and the Time Value of Money
- Property Rights and Patronage
- Grain Cooperatives cannot Afford to Ignore Section 199A
- The Cooperative's Role in Pooling Tax Deductions
- Impacting your Sustainable Growth Rate
- The Sustainable Growth Rate of a Cooperative Firm
- Can Cooperatives Seize the Moment
- Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Per Unit Retains
- An Update on the Impact of Tax Reform on Agricultural Cooperatives
- Tax Reform and the Cooperative Balance Sheet
- Impact of Tax Reform on Cooperatives and Members
- Impact of Tax Reform on Cooperative Profit Distribution
- The DNA of the Cooperative Business Model
- Plenty of Room Under the Cooperative Tent
- Put a Face to Cooperative Months
- Membership is Ownership
- Board Operations versus Cooperative Profitability
- Board Operations versus Cooperative Success
- Board Characteristics versus Profitability
- The Forgotten Branch of Management by Exception
- Get your Mind Around a Brainstorming Session
- Guidelines for Employee Suggestions
- Fire Up Employee Suggestions
- Designing a Differential Pricing Program
- Differential Pricing and Member Reaction
- Differential Pricing and Diverse Memberships
- Agronomy Margin Risk
- Grain Margin and Rochdale Principles
- Grain Margin Risk
- Two Last Things for Your Board to Get Right
- Get Right or Get Left
- Is your Board Doing Things Right?
- Try Flipping Your Board Meeting Agenda
- Economic Depreciation Versus Tax Depreciation
- Return on Investment from Infrastructure Reinvestment
- Depreciation and Capital Expenditures Determine Income Growth
- Board Members as CEO Candidates
- Employees as Members in an Agricultural Cooperative
- Make a Resolution to Improve Your Annual Meeting
- Strengthening the Audit Committee
- What Should the Board Ask the Auditor
- Cooperatives Build a Better World
- Zombie Apocalypse Would Lead to New Cooperative Development
- The Cooperative CEO is the Chief Culture Officer
- The Boards Role in Cooperative Culture
- The Culture in Your Cooperative
- Advisory Boards and Standing Committee Members
- Is There a Healthy Level of Board Turnover
- Make Information the Reason to Attend Your Annual Meeting
- How Democratic is Your Cooperative
- Why Do Big Cooperatives Sometimes Fail
- The Mayflower Compact
- Thats the Way the Money Goes
- The Other 80 20 Rule
- Myth Buster: Cooperative Leaders Are Only Looking Out for Themselves
- Agricultural Cooperatives as a Form of Diversification
- The Cooperative as an Extension of the Farm Firm
- Cooperatives on Campuses
- Does Interest in Cooperative Mergers Occur in Waves
- What Drives Interest in Mergers Among Cooperatives
- How Do We Define Success in a Cooperative
- Incorporating Regulatory Scenarios into Cooperative Strategic Planning
- Mega Trends Impacting Agribusiness Regulation
- A Strategic Approach to Regulatory Changes
- Stewardship Has Deep Roots in Cooperatives
- The Stewardship Model of Cooperative Management
- The Monitoring Aspect of Cooperative Governance
- Developing an Election Procedures Manual
- Bylaws: How Strong is our Coops Foundation
- Bylaws Versus Policy
- Not Even One Non-Producer Member
- Mis-describing Revolving Equity
- Mis-describing Cooperative Equity
- Defining a Member in a Cooperative
- Patronage Thresholds for Voting Privileges
- Professors in the Board Room
- Farmers Value of Cooperatives Article
- Living Your Cooperative’s Mission
- Training for Keeps
- Becoming a Cooperative Story Teller
- Cooperatives Matter
- Rogue Proofing Your Board of Directors
- Dealing with Rogue Board Members
- Signs of a Rogue Board Member
- The Road Trip Approach to Member Communication
- The Other Side of Member Communication
- Articulating Your Risk Appetite
- Determining Your Risk Appetite
- What is Your Risk Appetite?
- Risk in Grain and Farm Supply Cooperatives
- Machinery Cooperatives in China
- Another Look at the DuPont Model
- Cooperative Sector Performance and the DuPont Equation
- Survey Results: on Profit and Profit Distribution
- Survey Insights into Equity Redemption Programs
- The Economics of Cleaning the Boot Pit
- Cut Costs or Distribute Profits More Efficiently
- The Winner is Nonqualified
- Solar Cooperatives
- Fonterra’s Fair Share Value
- Fonterra’s Shareholder Council
- Fixing and Election Process Before it is Broken
- Challenges of Implementing On-line Voting in Cooperatives
- On-line Voting for Cooperatives
- Barriers to Diversity on the Cooperative Board
- Simple Steps to Address Board Diversity
- Agricultural Cooperatives Lag in Diversity
- Challenges for Board Diversity
- The Need for Board Diversity
- Fleet Size and Fertilizer Department Profitability
- What Drives Fertilizer Department Profitability
- Competitive Board Elections
- Strengthening Your Bylaws
- Board of Director Compensation
- Valuing the Cooperative Firm
- If you are not at the Table You are Likely on the Menu
- Russian Roulette with Three Cylinders Loaded
- Does a Sense of Ownership Impact Participation in Governance?