All true, just posted that to show that my mc is open to some necessarily painful compromises with other rebels who are not diametrically opposed to his vision. If it should really prove to be necessary to defeat either the Hegemony or the Laconniers he could even do a deal with the devil with the Leaguers, though of course preferably it won’t come to that.
Buying seeds and livestock at scale was one of the primary functions of the cooperatives and the largest eventually went on to found our two agricultural universities mainly to research and produce better seeds, tractors, crop harvesters, etc.
As for the fertiliser as long as no truly bloodless method is found agricultural theurges can be employed by cooperatives just as easily as they can be by the planter aristocracy, even if they are far too expensive for any single family farm to employ individually. They can even start training them themselves if they found the game world equivalent of our agricultural universities eventually as liberalisation of education, including access to magical knowledge is still one of my mc’s core policies.
The cooperative is still something that has to be thought out by someone other than my mc himself as he has no experience with family farming and the aforementioned doubts about whether it is even a viable alternative to the giant plantations of today’s Hegemony, but he could certainly see the value of the idea if someone were to pitch it to him.