Featured Article Research Priorities for Agricultural Cooperatives and their Farmer-Members Michael A. Boland * , Brian C. Briggeman, Keri Jacobs, Phil Kenkel, Gregory McKee, and John L. Park Michael A. Boland is E. Fred Koller Endowed Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Brian C. Briggeman is director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University. Keri Jacobs is an associate professor at the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. Phil Kenkel is a professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University. Gregory McKee is a professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. John L. Park is the Roy B. Davis Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. *Correspondence may be sent to: E-mail: boland@umn.edu Submitted 11 November 2019; editorial decision 2 July 2020. Abstract Land grant universities have maintained long-standing extension, applied research, and teaching programs aimed at farmer cooperatives. The purpose is to outline and detail a focused effort to establish relevant research priorities. Repre- sentatives of farmer cooperatives with 82% of their business volume in 2014 partici- pated in the project. The future of the farm, regulation, and data sets suitable for studying policy were the greatest research needs identified by the participants. Link- ages with existing extension programming including a multiuniversity director foundations self-paced online program are described. Key words: Agriculture, Cooperatives, Farm, Research. JEL codes: D70, L66, Q12, Q13, Q18. Research Priorities for Agricultural Cooperatives and Their Farmer-Members Since the passage of the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926, agricultural economics faculty at land grant universities work closely with farmer cooper- atives on resident instruction, extension, and research-based programming that includes curriculum with modules on accounting, finance, governance, human resources, leadership, and strategy. Recently funded research projects include a subscription project from twenty-one firms on agribusiness employee occupational health and safety (Risch et al. 2014), a case study on cooperative governance and farmer-ownership (McKee and Jacobs 2017), and studies focusing on cooperative finance and capitalization (Li, Jacobs, © 2020 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2020) volume 00, number 00, pp. 1–13. doi:10.1002/aepp.13068 1