October is National Co-op Month. Evan Fust, senior director of operations for CHS High Plains based in Yuma, Colo., and CHS United Plains Ag based in Sharon Springs, Kan., describes the role cooperatives play in communities across rural America and why he believes in the cooperative system.
Cooperatives can help farmers develop risk management strategies to weather downturns in the ag economy.
Nelson Neale, president of CHS Hedging, discusses the economy, global trends affecting agriculture and how the cooperative system can help farmers weather economic challenges.
Each episode of It Takes a Co-op will feature relevant agriculture and energy topics.