collaborative business for local sustainable meats slav heller st. paul, ab november 2012
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Collaborative Business Collaborative Business for Local Sustainable for Local Sustainable
MeatsMeats
Slav Heller St. Paul, AB
November 2012
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If you are a livestock or poultry farmer and you want to mind your own to mind your own
businessbusiness you have two basic options
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Option 1: Stay in the commodity businesscommodity business and wait
for good times to happen
Bank Bank loansloans
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Option 2: Become a direct direct marketermarketer and possibly a
processorprocessor of your own meats
This is certainly a valid pathvalid path but not for everyone
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But I don’t have all these business skills, talents or knowledge
What can I do?
I want to be just a producer but
don’t want to be in the
commodity business
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If you don’t want sell a don’t want sell a commoditycommodity and you don’t want don’t want
to sell your own meatsto sell your own meats you have no option but to learn and
make a strong effort and look for opportunities through
cooperation cooperation with other people and
organizationsWhat can we do?
What can we do?
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Is cooperation Is cooperation easy? easy? Where there are
six cooks, there is nothing to eat
There is a Polish proverb
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When you hear:
cooperationcooperation what comes to your mind?
Traditional producer co-ops
New Generation Co-ops
CooperationCooperation means much more than that and can take
many forms
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Horizontal structuresHorizontal structuresCooperatingCooperating with other farmers
CooperationCooperation occurs at two directionsoccurs at two directions
Vertical structuresVertical structures
CooperatingCooperating with meat processors, distributors, retailers, chefs, etc.
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Meat supply chainMeat supply chain
Farmers
Slaughter
Meat cutting
Processed meats
Urban retailers
Distributors
Consumers
Food service