“Something of Our Own” was made from conversations by the West Batesville Farmers’ Cooperative members about how they organized an agricultural marketing co-op in Mississippi.pic.twitter.com/Yzzm7a7ZIT
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The West Batesville farmers also got pretty real about the challenges. They shared, for example, how farmers who joined when the coop was paying more money for the okra than the white buyer, went back to the white buyer when the co-op had to lower its prices.pic.twitter.com/qgUjMCfBnO
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What the West Batesville farmers shared in those conversations was how their experiences and mistakes informed the decisions needed to strengthen the co-op and change how they organized for the next year. Describing these experiences helped shorten the learning curve for others…pic.twitter.com/AvYtU8AWFr
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“Y’all are doing it the hard way. You know that, don’t you?” the white buyer told the West Batesville farmers at one point. And their response was: “Doing it the hard way earns us something of our own.”
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