What will determine whether today's agricultural cooperatives are still thriving twenty years from now?

This follow-up Primary Industries NZ Summit panel explored exactly that question.

Panelist Bruce Wills summed it up simply:

"The co-operatives still around in 20 years' time will be those that run a great business."

Anna Nelson added an equally important perspective:

"The strength of collectives becomes even more important when you're surrounded by volatility and complexity."

Good governance, strong commercial performance and long-term investment have always mattered. But as markets become more uncertain, climate pressures increase and farming continues to evolve, collective ownership may become even more valuable than it has been in the past.

That's one of the many topics explored in t ...