Pros
Benefits are STRONG for the areas they represent! Great health benefits, investing in your retirement through 401k matches and optional profit sharing and a bunch more. Being a bigger player means bigger benefits. I see this happening through bonuses and incentives. Employees are being evaluated regularly and offered opportunities to learn how to do their jobs better through professional conferences, training sessions and in-house career training sessions (how to read financial statements, create a budget, inter-personal conversations for work...)
Cons
It is a full service farmers coop. It hinges heavily on seasonality and because of this, the hours can be crazy during those peak seasons. I think they are upfront about those issues though-they are working on evening the load in operations. It doesn't happen overnight but I see a lot of work in the background looking at these issues. Sometimes that isn't realized company wide. As the co-op gets bigger it experiences 'growing pains'. It is hard on all the staff-old and new comers. Managers seem to be working to make improvements to not go through hiccups with each merger.