The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-02
SELL OWN GRAIN
Kansas Farmers Plan Own
Terminal Market.
Representatives Gather in
Salina Thursday to Decide.
WILL MAKE CHAIN COMPLETE
Idea Will Be to Garry Products
Direct to Consumer.
Eventually All Organizations
To Be Under One Head.

Salina, Kan, March 2.-Represen-
tatives of cooperative elevator asso-
Citations in Kansas and adjoining
states will meet here Thursday TO
form a terminal marketing association
at Kansas City. Mo.
Thru this terminal market the ele-
vators plan to sell their grain Jointly
so as to realize the highest possible
price. Othtr regional marketing as
sociations are to be formed at strate-
gic points. including Omaha, Chicago,
East st. Louis, Minneapolis and Seat
tie.
Kansas Units Cooperate.
The Farmers Union, Farmers Co
operative Grain Dealers association,
and Equity Union Exchange are the
principal Kansas organizations join
ing in this movement which is Spon-
sored by the grain marketing commit
tee of the national board of farm or
CARNATIONS. This plan of centralized
cooperative grain marketing is sep
arate and distinct from the wheat
pool proposed by the National Wheat
Growers association, or the market
ing plans recently recommended by
the committee of seventeen or the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The meeting here is described by
Maurice McAuliffe. president of the
Kansas Farmers Union, as the most
important for wheat growers ever
held in this section. This is the first
time, according to Mr.. McAuliffe, that
an effort has been made to unite the
different cooperative elevator asso-
Citations under one roof-tree for the
marketing of their grain. Corpora
tive elevator associations in Kansas
are said to number about 500 or 700,
most of which are affiliated with one
of the three chief national farmers
cooperative organizations operating
in this state.
The plan contemplates creation of
marketing agencies, owned and con-
trolled by the farmers, which shall
carry their grain from the local ele-
Vator thru the great terminal markets
on to the ultimate consumer, or as
nearly so as possible. This plan when
carried into effect, its advocates be-
lieve. will give the farmers of the
country absolute control of the chan
nels of distribution thru which their
grain finds it's way to the ultimate
consumer, thus eliminating unneces-
sary middlemens profits.
Under the terminal marketing plan,
which was worked out at a conven-
ton of farmers cooperative elevator
companies in St Louis last December,
a federation of all farmers grain mar
keting organizations is to be effected
at each terminal. The federated Or
SaniZation is to obtain seat on the
grain exchange to provide facilities
for marketing the grain coming from
the local Gl6NdlOTS. he lOtdl COIll-
panies will be asked to take stock in
the terminal company.
All Under One Head.
When the regional terminal market
ing associations are under way the
next move will be to unite them into a
national terminal association under
one general manager or sales agent.
when carried into execution this
plan will enable the farmers to effect
an orderly marketing of their grain
turnout the season." explained Ernest
NJ. Pollard. executive secretary of the
National Board of Farm Organiza-
tions. Thus will be prevented the
congestion of the market at harvest
time which results in the grain going
into the hands of the speculator, who
has the benefit of the raise in prices
which always follow the glut in the
market occasioned by the present
tendency of farmers to market a very
large percent of their grain at the
time of harvest"