Dave Gutknecht

Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.
Author's Articles
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Sugar Beet Co-op (www.sugarbeet.coop) in Oak Park, Illinois, was presented the Startup of the Year award from Foo |
Endcap Articles | June 14, 2018 |
Urge your senators to listen to the credit unions -- the ones with the plan for helping small business and our nation's economic recovery. |
Endcap Articles | July 20, 2012 |
An impressive surge of expansion and new food co-ops is happening in many areas, and Maine is a great example. The number of food co-ops in the state will soon double over recent years, it appears |
Endcap Articles | March 12, 2014 |
Small towns face formidable challenges in retaining grocery stores, and their communities suffer and decline when the last local food store closes.Yet replacing unprofitable small stores with a co- |
Endcap Articles | May 31, 2016 |
Myths and prejudice about food stamp (SNAP) recipients received front-page reinforcement in the New York Times recently, in an article and photo telling us that SNAP recipients purchase “a l |
Endcap Articles | January 19, 2017 |
The Co-operative Group, the U.K. |
Endcap Articles | May 25, 2011 |
The fall grant cycle for the Howard Bowers Fund is here—U.S. food co-ops can now apply to receive leadership education and training scholarships for co-op boards of directors and co-op staff. |
Endcap Articles | August 7, 2017 |
[Originally published in "RootStock," Spring-Summer 2009] |
Endcap Articles | November 20, 2010 |
Sugar Beet Co-op in Oak Park, Illinois, was presented the Startup of the Year award from Food Co-op Initiative (FCI) on June 2, |
Endcap Articles | June 14, 2018 |
The devastating effects of the core fuel meltdown in at least three nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima site are not limited to the immediate region – where many will suffer from its radiation, and |
Endcap Articles | June 2, 2011 |
Save the dates—December 14-16, 2017. |
Endcap Articles | August 18, 2017 |
[“Rootstock” Part 3: 2009, unpublished]
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Endcap Articles | November 20, 2010 |
Reducing the significance of organic food to its “healthiness” is a bit like reducing politics to a matter of “truthiness.” The recent Stanford University study (September 4, Annals of Internal |
Endcap Articles | September 7, 2012 |
Don’t blame the sprouts. The E. coli strain causing death and illness in Germany, and other strains, originate in livestock and typically are spread through improper handling of manure. |
Endcap Articles | June 8, 2011 |
Growth in fresh food sales – and “fresh packaged” – is at the heart of recent comments from the Hartman Group, a leading analyst of the natural/organic grocery industry whose research has influenced m |
Endcap Articles | March 25, 2012 |
Hurrah for North Dakota voters, who on June 14 voted in a statewide referendum on the issue of whether non-family corporations could buy up farmland in their state. |
Endcap Articles | June 18, 2016 |
Fair trade bananas enable small producers to survive and thrive -- IF they organize as cooperatives. Organized demand through consumer cooperatives also is key. For background on these production |
Endcap Articles | March 17, 2017 |
A new publication presents a dossier on U.S. worker-owned and consumer co-ops in the U.S. |
Endcap Articles | March 8, 2012 |
Many readers of this site will recognize Bill Gessner’s name from his many past contributions to food co-ops, both through Cooperative Grocer and directly at scores of co-ops where he has given bot |
Endcap Articles | May 8, 2012 |
Outstanding food co-ops and co-op leaders were awarded recognition at the June 2016 CCMA (Consumer Cooperative Management Association) conference in Amherst, Mass. |
Endcap Articles | June 28, 2016 |