The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-03-17
GRAIN GROWERS COOPERATIVE
NATIONAL SALES AGENCY
PERFECTNC PLANS
Farmers Grain Marketing Committee of Seventeen
Report Unanimously Recommend Non Profit
Grain Growers Organization.

for marketing the exportable surplus
of grain.
Service Departments
The service departments are design
ed TO furnish accurate Information on
local, regional, national and world
wide conditions which affect the grain
trade. Transportation. legal, statistical
and other departments win be includ-
ed.
The membership subscription of the
growers will provide the National
Sales Agency with the initial work
ing capital necessary for the acquisi-
tion of facilities for the immediate
handling Of grain on consignment
Later the running expenses Of the
National Sales Agency win be secured
by assessing a handling charge on
the grain marketed through its offices.
Farmers cooperative elevator CON-
panies, composed of grower-members
and organized on a patronage divi-
dend basis, are to be asked to con-
tract with the National Sales Agency
for the sale of the grain of its men,
bers. Where a farmers cooperative
elevator does not exist, a local CO.
operative association, composed Of
grain growers only, will be organized
and contracts arranged between it and
the National Sales Agency. The local
cooperative associations will provide
local elevator facilities, either by con-
tract with existing elevator companies
or by leasing, buying or building ele-
vators. Probably non-co-operative
local elevator companies will be re-
quested to change their form Of or
ganization so as to become co-opera-
tives and to meet the requirements for
dealing with the National Sales
Agency.
1t should be clearly understood that
the option Of the method of tiisposing
Of his grain rests with the grower
He may consign his grain to the local
sale thru the National Sales Agency,
or he may vote to pool his grain and
provide for its sale through the Ma
tional Sales Agency. Provisions will
probably be made so that two or more
elevators or local grain growers as
sociation may pool their grain, when
the pool is approved by three-fourtns
of the members Of each local group
Doubtless the Farmers Grain Market
ing Committee of Seventeen believed
that this optional method would pro-
vide the acid test for the pooling sys-
tenn and would eventually lead to a
survival of the fittest as between the
methods
Having erected and approved the
skeleton Of its plan, the Farmers
Grain Marketing Committee of Seven
teen is now diligently applying itself
to the details. Subcommittee are
hard at work perfecting various phases
Of the plan. As soon as the structure
and phrasing Of the contracts and Or
ganizati0n forms are completed they
will be submitted to a committee Of
the most eminent attorneys In Ameri-
ca for further revisions
When the plan is finished, 1t will be
submitted to convention OF the var
ious farmers organizations Interested
in approving 1t as a means of improv-
ing the grain marketing of the nation.
Meantime, the farmer is afforded this
opportunity to study the plan and to
decide concerning its application to his
own business Of producing grain and
Of marketing it in the most efficient
manner.