Yet, this kind of exploitation is not necessarily unavoidable. A study done by Lass et al.
(2005) found that CSA farmers in the Northeastern United States chose to not exercise all the
monopoly pricing power they had. “Our results suggest that CSA farms have the power to price
above marginal costs, but for a variety of reasons, they choose to exert very little of that power”
(Lass et al., 2005, p. 15). One of the possible reasons cited by Lass et al. may be the “altruistic
feelings of the farmer towards shareholders” (2005, p. 15).