At any given time, in any place, in any area of business, there is usually an established set of businesses operating in that geographic area. If you are new to that area and/or if you want to start a business in that area, how do you compete? Think about farming. There are a lot of conventional and better than conventional producers of poultry, pork, and beef in many of the markets around the US and Canada. If you want to get into one of those markets, how do you deal with the competition? On one hand they are competition. On the other hand they are comrades, other small scale farmers, in the battle against big ag. And in some ways, the total market would be stronger if more locals were supporting more local farms. It's competition versus co-opetition. Directly competing in a battle to the death versus competing on more friendly terms knowing that the real battle is the little farms versus the mega industrialized farm complex. As a new farmer you have to walk this line carefully. If you are new farmer, then you could benefit from a lot of your competitors knowledge - knowledge about the market, the local climate, local processors and suppliers, knowledge about the livestock, knowledge about the local grasses. Despite being your competitor they know a lot that you would benefit from knowing, while at the same time, being your direction competition. When you start farming or start farming in a new area, how do you compete and deal with the competition?

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