Cooperatives for Local Food News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Farmers have formed cooperatives for decades, but successful new cooperatives are somewhat rare. A group of ranchers in the San Francisco bay area have recently formed a new coop with the specific purpose of building local meat processing capabilities. Adam Parks is the vice president of the newly formed cooperative. Parks… “One of the things about Bay Area Rancher Coop - or Bar-C as we call it is it's kind of like a referee or an offensive lineman. If everything goes according to plan, you'll never hear about us. No consumer will ever know who we are. That's the way we want it. Our customers are the ranchers that are taking their product out to market. There's never intended to be a Bar-C brand. You're never going to go into a grocery store and see Bar-C ground beef for Bar-C chicken breasts. We want the ranchers to market their own products. And our job is solely processing.”