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Other communities across the U.S. are also using value-added cooperatives to address unemployment and create jobs in their communities. Cooperatives such as the Dakota Pasta Growers which processes wheat into pasta, Cloverdale Growers Cooperative which processes hogs into value-added products, and the Santa Fe Trail Growers Cooperative which processes and markets a variety of fruits and vegetables across the US. These new cooperatives have built large processing plants and created thousands of new jobs.
New generation cooperatives succeed because they require more investment of capital than traditional cooperatives. Often these cooperatives require their members to invest 40% of the total capital required. And, new generation cooperatives require a written commitment of member participation. Within the past five years, over 250 new generation agriculture cooperatives have been organized in the US.
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