The Cooperator

The April 2026 issue of The Cooperator is available now. News and features from Tennessee agriculture and the Co-op community include: 

• The memberships of White County Farmers Co-op, with locations in Sparta and Monterey, and Warren Farmers Co-op in McMinnville, have agreed to merge the Co-ops into a single business that, effective March 1, will be known as White Warren Farmers Cooperative.
• Ryan Jenkins, a fourth-generation row crop farmer from Jay, Florida, urges fellow farmers to be agriculture ambassadors. Jenkins was a keynote presenter at the GreenPoint Ag Southern Agronomy Summit in Nashville in January.
• Cooperator staff looks ahead to what 2026 might hold as Tennessee producers take on another year of slim margins and new opportunities in the article “Strategic optimism: Ag in 2026.”
• Dale Parker, a member of both White Warren Farmers and Rutherford Farmers Cooperatives, took the reins of the Tennessee Cattlemen’s Association in November 2025. Learn about his background and his thoughts as he takes on this important role serving Tennessee beef producers.
• Sequatchie Farmers Cooperative’s Holli Tays is featured in the popular “Every Farmer Has A Story” section. Holli is racking up wins as a champion barrel racer while working part-time at the Co-op in Dunlap.

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