Value Added Products Cooperative began with a vision to increase the revenue stream to agricultural producers and stimulate rural economic development activities. An aggressive and confident group was formed consisting of farmers, ranchers, bankers and businessmen to end despair and declining incomes of agricultural producers and rural communities. Numerous meetings were conducted to study the feasibility and choose an initial food processing venture indicating a high degree of success. Following careful deliberations a project was discovered, which met the mission statement and objectives of the group. From this initial work a steering group of producers incorporated Value Added Products (VAP), a closed (limited membership) investment cooperative to produce high quality value-added products for the domestic and international markets. The first project of VAP will be consumer ready frozen dough products. These products offer a high degree of demand, culminating in a large share of production contracted at significant profit margins.

Objectives

• Provide opportunities for producers to add value to their wheat by becoming members and investing in a closed food processing cooperative.

• Produce the highest quality food products utilizing raw agricultural commodities and state of the art technology.

• Respond to consumer's desires for high quality time efficient food products.

• Provide economic development activities and food processing ventures to rural communities.

Our Purpose at Value Added Products is to enhance the revenue of agricultural producers and to increase the value of agricultural commodities (wheat) by processing value added foods.