MACI History

The MACI cooperative association grew out of a need by the business and agricultural community in the largely rural mid-section of the United States to reconnect itself with professional and academic expertise. Consequently, a group of professional agriculture practitioners from both the university and private sector chartered MACI as a cooperative in 1993 with a focus on domestic and international consulting, including feasibility studies and custom training programs. The emergence of many independent countries since the early 1990’s and the successful presence of the Cochran Fellowship Program in the USDA Foreign Agricultural service has provided many unique opportunities for the expertise of MACI to not only undertake domestic work but also much needed international work that addresses the growing agriculture economies in other countries. Since 1993, MACI has developed and delivered over 100 custom agricultural training programs for over 50 different countries through the Cochran Fellowship Program.

Click here to read Bill Nelson’s story “How MACI Got Its Start-and Its Name.”