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Organic Valley Grower Pool

Secure your farming future!

Join our cooperative and grow organic grains, beans, oilseeds, and hay for over 1200 farmers in CROPP Cooperative’s dairy, egg, beef, pork, and poultry pools.

CROPP Cooperative has provided organic family farmers with 20 years of pay price stability and steady increases in the face of wildly fluctuating conventional markets. This is exactly the kind of price stability CROPP Cooperative now wants to offer organic crop growers through our new Grower Pool.

Late in 2007, CROPP Cooperative conducted a Grower Pool Foundation Conference during which CROPP Cooperative asked organic crop growers to describe for us what kind of program would be attractive and valuable to them. This collaboration culminated in the creation of the CROPP Cooperative Grower Pool, a new farmer-friendly model for the marketing of organic feed crops.

How it works

Growers may enroll as many acres of organic crops as they like and will have a guaranteed price via a 3-year rolling contract. Growers enrolled in the Grower Pool will have priority access to all future sales to CROPP Cooperative for as long as they wish to remain members.

Key elements of the Grower Pool:

1. Mutual commitments made via three-year rolling contracts
2. Sixteen crops eligible for enrollment
3. Full membership in CROPP Cooperative including voting rights
4. A transparent regional pay structure
5. Voluntary acreage commitments
6. Farmgate pricing with no marketing or transportation responsibilities
7. CROPP Cooperative as actual buyer