This blueprint provides an outline of the opportunities to expand Australia’s farming, fishing and forestry activities using the co-operative farming model, and includes both domestic and international case studies of successful farming co-ops.
Co-operatives are active in all parts of Australia’s agricultural economy, helping farmers to compete in ways that they could not do alone. There are co-operatives for grain crops, livestock, dairy, horticulture, fishing and forestry. Co-operatives also support agricultural logistics through farm supply co-ops and irrigation mutuals.
