Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-10-05
FARM BUREAU
PROMOTES MARKETING.
Cooperative Sale Of Farm Products
Helped By State ..#s55 u
IL i.5 4. 5 .tp Federation

ST. Paul Oct 5.--The Minnesota
Farm Bureau federation; with units or
ganized in more than 1000 townships,
has enabled farmers Of the state to ac-
complish in single summer two llln-
dertakings that normally would have
required years Of work, ID. 3. eHeaton,
member Of the national dairy marketing
Committee Of Eleven, told members OF
the committee in its first: formal hear
ing. held in st. Paul this week :E,~
The Committee of Eleven, appointed
by the American Farm Bureau fedora
ton to Investigate dairy marketing and
recommend methods of centralizing and
improving the distribution of dairy pro-
ducts, opened it's hearing in Minnesota
in order to study this states, work in
cooperative marketing. .' ~ h..
estate farm bureau federations,' -
Mr.. Heaton said! care rendering sery-
leo the value OF which can hardly be
appreciated. and which is often not APP
preciated- as it should be by the FARM
ers. Minnesota has one of the newer
far bureau fedora tons The farmers Of
this state have developed more COOP
erative work than any other state in
the country in working out their mar
keting problems.
"The livestock shipping associations
in the state began to see that it would
be a good thing if they could federate
into state ASSOCIATION and start live
stock commission firm Of their own on
the South st. Paul market. They found
that it would be impossible to build up
this ASSOCIATION is quickly as they
wanted to do it. if they undertook it
themselves, so they called on the biggest
service organization in the state, the
Minnesota Farm Bureau federation.
and in a few weeks the federation and
the new association had developed a
statewide organization with some 275
local shipping associations, and a total
of nearly 10000 farmers The managers
Of this commission firm tell me they are
handling more than twice as. much
stock as their nearest competitor. This
is service worth while.
SIN Minnesota there are over 600 CO
operative CreamcrieS. Some of the
leaders among these creameries con-
ceived the idea that they could make
great savings for the farmers and could
develop a better product to sell if they
could have |; big. statewide association
Of these cooperative creameries. Again
the farmers turned to their farm b,1-
reau federation and asked them to de-
velop this creamery organization. They
are working on it with splendid sue
cess. If it had not been for the finances
and the organization Of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau federation, permitting It
to go ahead and help do this work. it
probably would have taken a good many
years for the livestock shippers OF the
creamery cO-Operators to develop the
work Of which they have seen the need.
'',rhis is not the only work the Min
nesota federation has done. 1t has
taken an active part in legislative mat
tiers in which the farmers were inter
ested: it has an organization depart
mcnt used to help cooperative market
ing projects and the county farm bu-
reaus, and it has a publicity depart
ment which is spreading the story of
the farmers work. not only to the farm
ers. but to the people Of the cities as
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