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bae-17342	Nota, Paolo; Curzi, Daniele; Vigani, Mauro	The cost of joining forces: collective organisations and the economic performance of dairy farms in England	2025	20	.pdf	application/pdf	6099	327	51	To understand why SCAs with collective organisations imply higher production costs and lower markup, we further investigate five categories of agreements’ characteristics associated with collective organisations using penalised (logit) regression, namely: i) special contract clauses (contract duration, services, producer protections); ii) pricing methods; iii) timing of milk delivery and pricing; iv) costs associated to the agreement; and v) required quality and production standards. 1 The cost of joining forces: collective organisations and the economic performance of dairy farms in South West England Authors: Paolo Nota1, Daniele Curzi1*, Mauro Vigani2,3 Affiliations: 1 Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Italy.	cache/bae-17342.pdf	txt/bae-17342.txt