Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-10
TO ORGANIZE
FOR MARKETING
OF LIVE STOCK
No Pooling Plan to Be Urg.
ed by New Cooperative
Organization.

c'ASo6o ~ WV. Ut Ut Inc second
time this year farmers Of the unit
meet here today to consider l%aiunchiny
OF a national cooperative marketing
movement. This time it is of live
stock. After working nine months a
farmers live stock committee or Is
named by the American Farm Blu
reau Federation brings in it's report
today to a ratification conference rep
resentative OF live stock producers.
Unlike the national grain market
ing plan adopted last spring and in
corporated in the u. IS. Grain Grow
ers, Inc. the live stock plan calls for
no pool nor contract covering a pc.
Rod of years.
Establishment Of a national live
stock producers assertion is one OF
the outstanding features OF the pro-
gram laid before today's meeting.
More important yet, as the heart OF
the plan, is the creation of
tive live stock commission associu-
lions at h various stockyards, with
More Companies.
Cooperative live stock commission
companies. witch have recently
grown numerous, are to be strength
ened. A program of orderly market
ing Is to be worked out. A trans
portation department Is to be created
Live stock statistics are to be inter
preted. In addition it Is advancing
public appreciation Of meat as a food.
What h plan proposes to do, in
operative marketing OF live stock
from the farmer to the packing
house, to do this through a national
organization, overseeing. dovetailing
and working out plans, and to event.
ually regulate to a considerable de-
gree the flow of live stock to market
so as to prevent gluts and disastrous
price-breaks.
What is expected for the farmer is
a larger voice in the sale Of his live
stock, a saying in marketing costs. a
saving in purchase and sale OF stock
er and feeder cattle and eventually a
more stabilized market. Through
large numbers Of farmers marketing
together it is anticipated they may be
able to sell to better advantage than
the individual farmers does today.
If the plan is ratified today, as it is
anticipated it will be. formation of
the National Live Stock Producers
ing. Several cooperative live stock
ES'A ouo lAoNS C%Cltll pSetl
formed. and more will be esta blished
as soon as practicable.
Runs Into Millions.
The live stock business runs into
the hundreds OF millions of dollars
annually and proponents of the plan
anticipate a. substantial share of this
but have no expectation IF getting it
all. Extension Of the plan will chiefly
affect small and inefficient privately
owned live stock commission firms Oh
the various markets, according to the
committee, which says it is generally
recognized there are too many Of
these new operating to handle the
business efficiently.
The problem of orderly marketing
however does not admit Of so ready
an approach. The orderly marketing
subcommittee reports today that the
accomplishment Of the more orderly
marketing Of the different kinds Of
There is no eas way or any outstand-
ing short cut"
A broad campaign Of education. de-
pendable statistical information. in
diligently interpreted, organization OF
large numbers of producers on a
strictly cooperative basis. and some
regulation of conditions and volume
of production are declared essential to
orderly marketing.
Chairman of the committee bring
ing in the report of live stock market
ing committee is c. H. Gustafson of
Lincoln, Neb.. who performed a
similar task this spring for the farm
ers' grain marketing committee Of
seventeen. H. w. Memford. director
Of the live stock marketing depart
ment of the Illinois Agricultural asso-
citation. before that a professor in the
agricultural college of the University
mittee.