Is there significant history regarding forest industry hostility toward cooperative marketing of roundwood and subsequent price increases?
A. My limited review of historical data suggests that hostility toward cooperative marketing was not the main reason for previous demise. Cooperatives during the post-war boom could not compete with mills on return to landowners. I could understand that mills might be threatened by cooperatives, but might also see them as opportunities for long-term procurement goals. For example, a co-op might form a relationship with local mill(s) that might benefit all parties. (Respondent: Mark Rickenbach mgrickenbach@wisc.edu) Q. How does a co-op effort handle a landowner who owns a significant block of land (40-400 acres) that’s situated in the middle of a proposed hunting co-op? A. Cooperatives are voluntary business arrangements. If a landowner, after reviewing the opportunity and its potential benefits and costs, decides not to participate, that is their decisionat least for the time being. If the co-op is able to document success, revisiting the landowner may be useful. Their reluctance may b
