The task of measuring the financial performance of cooperatives is made problematic by the attributes of the cooperative form of business. Most of the commonly used financial measures give an incomplete picture of a cooperative's performance. However, the extra value approach used in this report enables a cooperative's use of member-supplied funds to be fully measured-whether member capital is earning more, or less, than it could in alternative investments. The value a cooperative generates over and above its expenses, including an opportunity cost for its equity capital, is termed "extra...

This special reprint edition of "Beef Cattle and Swine " was written by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station and first published in 1898, making it a truly antiquarian text. It is one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Farmers' Bulletin" publications. Just some of the topics covered in this short book are - Growing Beef in Minnesota, Fattening Range Steers in Winter, Behavior on the Block, Growing Pork, plus the results of the Station's experiments in feeding and fattening stock beef cattle and pigs. IMPORTANT NOTES: Please read BEFORE buying THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT. IT IS NOT...