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This spring Congress passed the 2002 Farm Bill, signed by the President on May 13th. |
101 July - August - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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103 November - December - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
To the Editor and George Southworth, |
098 January - February - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Natural food co-operatives in Eastern Canada are facing many of the same opportunities and problems as their counterparts in the US. |
103 November - December - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
More and more stores are adding deli grab and go programs, hoping to grow sales and reduce service labor expenses. Stories abound of prepared foods departments doubling their sales. |
102 September - October - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Membership is at the heart of cooperation. Cooperative membership is the driving force for an alternative economic system predicated upon user ownership and benefit. |
103 November - December - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Many food co-ops established in the 1970s have come of age today, expanding their retail space, revitalizing their identity as cooperatives, and proving that co-ops can continue to thrive in an inc |
099 March - April - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Food co-op trends reached a remarkable turning point this summer in scenarios that accelerated the decline of cooperatively owned distributors and underscored the crucial role that boards of direct |
102 September - October - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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100 May - June - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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098 January - February - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
The Cooperative Grocers Information Network -- CGIN -- held its fifth annual meeting at the June CCMA conference this year. For those of you who were unable to join us, highlights included: |
102 September - October - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Fifteen years of pushing for a federal organic law came to fruition on October 21, 2002 when the USDA's Final Rule on Organics went into effect. |
103 November - December - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Cass Corridor Co-op, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in the summer of 2002, relocated in late September after many years in a small, rented facility with 1,700 retail square feet. |
098 January - February - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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098 January - February - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
News of the proposed acquisition of Blooming Prairie Cooperative Warehouse by United Natural Foods, Inc. has evoked many different reactions throughout the food co-op community. |
102 September - October - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
On September 28, members of Blooming Prairie Cooperative Warehouse voted approval, by 62 percent of the members and 73 percent of the votes, of a proposal from the board of directors to sell the co |
103 November - December - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Have you read the latest news stories on food bioterrorism in the US and around the world? Taliban fighters sneak growth hormone into milk supply. |
099 March - April - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
The fall 2000 merger of twenty-eight of Atlantic Canada's independent co-operative societies, with thirty-three stores and mounting losses, was a shotgun wedding. |
101 July - August - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
My recent trip to Austin for the Organic Trade Association's "All Things Organic" event brought the issue of organic aquaculture back into focus. |
102 September - October - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
The Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on disabilities (physical or mental). |
100 May - June - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |