Morris tribune., 1921-04-15
GRAIN MARKETING PLAN
RATIFIED BY CONVENTION
Delegates From % States Approve
Committee of II Report Without
Change

Chicago, April 14.-The United
States Grain Growers, Incorporated,
the first nationwide cooperative in
stitution ever created to handle
American farm products, is an estab-
lished fact.
Backed by the unanimous vote of
convention made up of elected dele
gates from the grain producing
states, the Committee of Seventeen
and a national board of directors are
at work today, preparing to offer to
every grain grower in the country
a chance to join farmer controlled,
cooperative corporation designed to
reduce the cost of distribution and
to stabilize prices.
''The unanimous vote of the con-
vention, made up of men represent
ing the divergent interests of every
section of the grain producing states,
is the real surprise of cooperation in
America" L. E. Potter, president of
the Minnesota Farm Bureau fedora
tion and Minnesota delegate at large
in the convention, said. "The action
of the delegates in pledging their
support to the marketing plan draft
ed by the Committee of II, proves
conclusively that American farmers
have learned their lesson. They are
ready to stand together and fight to-
gether."
MINNESOTA TAKES LEADING
PART
Minnesota played prominent
part in the convention assembled to
ratify the plan of the Committee OF
liz. w. F. Schilling and J. E. Kelley,
Minnesota delegates, addressed the
conference in defense of the grain
marketing system as worked out by
the committee J. M. Anderson of ST.
Paul, a member of the Committee OF
III, was one of the speakers chosen
by the committee to present the re-
suits of it's eight months investiga-
tion.-
The report of the Committee of IL
was ratified without change, and the
convention Immediately authorized
the establishment of the nationa
sales agency, recommended in the re-
port, and proceeded to appoint ma
tional board of directors. Organiza
! ton of the United States Grain Grow
ers, Inc, a nonstock, non-prOfit, farm
er controlled corporation, will begi1
; throughout the country as soon al
necessary machinery can be set up.
| OPTION LEFT TO FARMER
; AS ratified by the farmer delegate
from the grain producing states, tn
plan for the national sales agenc!
{ leaves in the hands of the grove
full power to decide how he shall
5 market his crop. The local co-opera
tive elevator or local shipping associ
alton is the basis of the new system
! The Individual farmer will contrac
= to market all his grain through tn
/ local cooperative for five years, an
t the cooperative will make a simila
s contract with the United State
e Grain Growers, Inc. The farmer ha
n the choice Of three ways of sellin
d his grain. He may sell direct throug
e the local cooperative to the nations
|, sales agency; he may sell on cor
S signment, using the national col
poration as his agent, or he and hi
O neighbors may form pool. Sue
t pools may be only local, or may cove
s a state or even several states.
(. Delegates from the northwes
g states pledged themselves and the
r organizations to back the new ma
n keting system "to the last ditch,
+ Under the decision of the state col
t. vention of farm bureau delegates {
the Minnesota conference to rati1
k the plan the full power of the Mil
e nesota Farm Bureau Federation wi
l. be thrown into the organization (
IS the national sales agency.
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