Starting a value-added agribusiness
Subtitle: the legal perspective
By: by Mark J. Hanson.
Contributors: Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs.
Publisher: Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Macomb, IL]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Agriculture, Cooperative -- United States.; Cooperative marketing of farm produce -- United States.; Agricultural processing industries -- United States -- Management.; New business enterprises -- United States -- Management.
Notes: Financial support for report came from: Value Project to Improve Farm Income and Rural Communities Through Specialty Farm Products, part of the Illinois Council for Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 25).
"This report is an excerpt from "A cooperative approach to local economic development", Quorum Publications, in press."
"First Printing: January 2000."--p. [ii].
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Business plan; title: Organizational structure; title: Value-added cooperative model; title: Tax and securities advantages of cooperatives; title: Getting started; title: Addressing and minimizing risk; title: Equity offering; title: Board of directors' issues; title: References.