Farming Co-operatives

The Wales Co-operative Centre has a successful track record of bringing together agricultural businesses, helping them achieve more than they could alone and increasing their competitiveness.

The Centre specialises in supporting smaller co-operative initiatives which bring together groups of farmers or food producers with a common product or interest. This has included shell fishers, sheep and beef farmers, vegetable growers, cheese producers and cockle pickers amongst others.

What are the benefits?

Also sometimes known as marketing co-ops or secondary co-ops, these agri-food businesses join together for a variety of mutual benefits including:

• Added profitability, competitiveness and sustainability
• Winning contracts through procurement
• Joint marketing of their businesses
• Sharing business resources
• Greater negotiating strength
• Adding value to products
• More control over how products are grown, processed and sold

How can we help?

The Centre can help with all stages of setting up a farming co-operative including sorting out a legal structure and registering the co-operative as a company limited by guarantee or industrial and provident society.  We can also help with writing a business plan and provide training for people involved with the co-op.

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