The executive director of a cooperative providing health
plans exclusively to Minnesota farmers and agribusinesses says there’s strength
in numbers.

Char Vrieze tells Brownfield the point of creating 40 Square Cooperative Solutions was to allow the ag community to collectively address the cost, legal and regulatory hurdles associated with healthcare.

“A lot of larger employers have that purchasing power, so to speak. But as an individual farm or individual agribusiness, you can’t gain those economies of scale.”

She says choices are even more limited with Land O’Lakes ending its farmer coop health plan at the end of the year.

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