Amid pandemic, smallholder farmers turn to radio and text message for critical information on marketing decisions, price negotiations
May 26, 2020
For several years now, elements of NCBA CLUSA’s PROMAC II project, funded by the Norwegian Government, have been moving toward digitalization. However, with its restrictions on travel and face-to-face contact with farmers in Mozambique, COVID-19 has made digital communication essential—especially during harvest and commercialization season. Meanwhile, project field staff has been tracking sales prices for […]
Read moreRegister Today: “Moving Beyond Paralysis: How Your Business Can Prosper During and After the COVID-19 Crisis” webinar with Stratus Wealth Advisors
May 26, 2020
Join NCBA CLUSA and our associate member Stratus Wealth Advisors, a comprehensive financial planning and asset management firm, on Thursday, June 11 from 1-2 p.m. for a free webinar on how your business can thrive and prosper during and after COVID-19. Called “Moving Beyond Paralysis: How Your Business Can Prosper During and After the COVID-19 Crisis,” this webinar […]
Read moreJoin Shared Capital Cooperative for their 2020 Annual Meeting on Thursday, May 28
May 26, 2020
Join Shared Capital Cooperative virtually on May 28 from 1-2:30 pm CT for their 2020 Annual Meeting, hosted on the GoToWebinar platform. Free and open to everyone, this event will feature Shared Capital’s impact over the past year and highlight co-ops nationwide whose responses to COVID-19 is innovative and inspiring. The meeting will be hosted by […]
Read moreChuck Snyder, Doug O’Brien are this week’s guests on Everything Co-op
May 26, 2020
Tune in to WOL 1450 AM or listen online on May 28, at 10:30 am EDT, for Everything Co-op. As the show continues its focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, host Vernon Oaks will interview two leaders in the cooperative community—National Cooperative Bank President Charles E. Snyder and NCBA CLUSA President and CEO Doug O’Brien. Vernon […]
Read moreLongtime food co-op conference pivots and goes virtual!
May 19, 2020
Registration is now open for Virtual CCMA 2020! Hosted by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the event will be an exciting, virtual conference experience where the food co-op community can come together to connect, reflect and grow during these turbulent times. Whether participating from your co-op, couch or home office, cooperators will learn […]
Read moreCo-op voices: The expanding financial toll of COVID-19 on America’s Electric Cooperatives
May 19, 2020
In northwest North Dakota, where oil wells dot a landscape blanketed with wheat farms, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has walloped Burke-Divide Electric Cooperative. The oil producers that make up about 85 percent of the co-op’s consumer-members turned off electricity to their pumps as the price of oil plummeted to less than $4 a barrel—the […]
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