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Title	Issue	Date
Patronage Dividends: A Primer BY Bruce Mayer Should your cooperative consider patronage dividends to owners? If you are already issuing patronage dividends, is your cooperative following the rules?	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	July 14, 2009
Additional Stores: Expanding "The Co-op" BY Bill Gessner Food co-ops expanding from one to two stores must navigate a challenging and perilous course.	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
Cornucopia Institute’s Complaints Expose Outlaw Factory Dairy Farms BY Will Fantle Operators of factory-farm facilities claiming to be organic are feeling the heat from USDA enforcement actions.	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
Foodborne Illnesses and Practical Protections BY Kenneth M. Odza A perfect storm may be brewing. Dangerous pathogens are evolving quickly.	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
Fostering Creativity: Marketing Matters BY Ellen Michel Held in Austin, Texas on October 24–26, the 2007 Marketing Matters Conference gave cooperators a chance to focus on marketing topics and strategies for the advancement of our stores.	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
Intensive Learning and Gardening at Co-op’s Urban Farm BY Jonathan McGoran Walking down the rows of raised beds, blanketed now with cover crops and a light morning frost, it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks earlier the Weavers Way Farm was bustling with volunteers	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
Living Dangerously: Food and the Future BY Dave Gutknecht Listen up! Year 2008 is going to be a difficult one, for reasons I have touched on in recent editions.	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
Minneapolis Co-op Contrast: Groundbreaking and Closing BY Dave Gutknecht In Minneapolis, within a period of a few weeks, North Country Co-op announced that it would be closing up shop after 37 years, while Seward Co-op-born in the same early 1970s era-held a groundbrea	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
NCBA Trip to Singapore and Indonesia BY Bob Noble This past October I participated in the biennial General Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) in Singapore, followed by a tour of coffee and micro-fin	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
Setting a Process for General Manager Compensation BY Carolee Colter, Mark Goehring This article has charts and tables that are available here in pdf form	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	January 19, 2009
CGIN Unveils New Website BY Staff In 1997, a group of retail food cooperative leaders got together to build the framework for an online, member-based resource to support the growth and development of food co-ops nationwide.	134 Jan - Feb - 2008	February 11, 2008