Central Valley Ag Cooperative

Central Valley Ag Cooperative (often shortened to CVA) is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative based in the central United States. As a cooperative, it is owned by the farmers and ranchers it serves rather than by outside shareholders, and it exists to supply members with the inputs, services and market access they need to run their operations. The organization operates through a network of local locations that provide agronomy products such as seed, fertilizer and crop-protection chemicals, along with grain marketing, energy products including fuel and propane, and related agronomic and precision-agriculture services. Because it is member-owned, CVA is governed by a board drawn from its membership and returns patronage to members based on their use of the cooperative's services. The cooperative's name reflects its roots in the fertile central valley farming regions of the American Midwest and Great Plains. Its business model is typical of the large regional farm-supply and grain-marketing cooperatives that anchor rural agricultural economies in the United States: it aggregates member demand to negotiate better input prices, aggregates member supply to market grain more effectively, and reinvests earnings for the benefit of its member-owners. CVA serves a broad base of crop and livestock producers and is a significant local employer and economic engine in the communities where it operates. The cooperative continues to operate under the Central Valley Ag Cooperative name and maintains a public web presence at cvacoop.com.

Central Valley Ag Cooperative is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative operating in the central United States. Like many American agricultural cooperatives, it was formed to give farmers collective bargaining power in purchasing inputs and marketing their crops. The cooperative is owned by its farmer-members, who elect a board of directors and share in the cooperative's earnings through patronage. Over time, CVA has grown into a multi-location agribusiness offering agronomy, grain, energy and precision-agriculture services. The cooperative continues to operate under the Central Valley Ag Cooperative name and maintains a public web presence at cvacoop.com.

Member-owned agricultural cooperative providing inputs, grain marketing and energy to farmers.

• Agronomy products and services

• Grain marketing

• Energy products (fuel and propane)

• Precision agriculture services

1. 1Central Valley Ag Cooperative — Wikidatawikidata.org
2. 2Central Valley Ag Cooperative official websitecvacoop.com