The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1922-12-14
MAMMOTH SALES
AGENCY FORMED
Largest COOPERATIVE Wheat Market
ing Organization in the World
is Launched
TEN STATES ARE REPRESENTED
One Hundred Million Bushels to Be
Handled Next Year

Representatives from ten states re-
Gently met in Minneapolis and formed
what is. said to be the largest CO.
operative wheat marketing sales
agency in the world. It's organizers
estimated that about 100, ,000, 900 bush
els of wheat will be handled by this
agency during the first year Of its
operation.
The states represented at the meet
ing were Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Col
orado.
Geo. C. Jewett, general manager
of the Northwest Wheat Growers, As
sociated, sales agency for five north
west states; Geo. E. Duis, president
of the North Dakota Wheat Growers
association; and VIM. H. McGreevy,
secretary Of the National Wheat
Growers association, were named as
a committee to draft plan Of opera
tion, a constitution and bylaws, which
will later be referred to the board of
directors Of the various state associa-
tions for ratification. It was said
that this would be a matter Of mere
formality, for all the states in the
amalgamation were represented at
the conference and agreed in princi-
pie with the proposed plan which was
presented by a committee composed
Of delegates from all the state asso-
Citations.
Mr.. Jewett was named chairman Of
the conference and Mr.. McGreevy was
>elected secretary. In opening the
meeting, Mr.. Jewett called attention
to the rapid growth Of the cooper
alive marketing movement as an evi-
dence Of the necessity for national
sales establishment.
"Three years ago the number Of
bushels of wheat marketed under the
pooling plan, as we now have it in
operation, was insignificant" he said.
To-day We lias* membership extsaids
ing from Kansas to Washington, from
Oregon to Texas, with a contract pro-
duction amounting to an eighth Of the
total bushelage grown in the United
States. We have ten large associaA
tions, all working under similar sales
plans. s
at is obvious that national sales
organization must be set up to co-or-
dinate both domestic and export work
Of these marketing groups. Just this
season we have cargoes leaving from
the Pacific coast and others going out
of Gulf ports. We concentrate for
export to Europe at Duluth and on
the eastern coast. We must have a
national organization which will see
that there is mo competition in this
marketing which is now being done by
several different organizations"
The national establishment, as plan
ned at the conference, would also in
clude arrangements for Organization
Of marketing associations, similar to
those now in existence, in states that
at present have no cooperative mar
keting facilities; besides, it will have
charge Of the work Of securing funds
to be used in making advances to
members pending the final sale Of the
wheat in the pools.
Prior to the all-American confer
ence, meeting Of the trustees of the
Northwest Wheat Growers was held
to arrange the sales policy for this
organization during the coming year.
This is the marketing organization
for state associations in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and North
Dakota, and has sales Offices in Min
neapolis and Duluth as we'll as on
tho Pacific coast
The salient features Of the plan
discussed at the meeting are as fol-
lows: Two trustees from each state
association would form central
board Of trustees for the American
Wheat Growers, this board to be vest
ed with power to sell all the wheat Of
the organization which is diverted into
channels outside Of the section in
which it is grown, so as to avoid COM
petition between state units; the board
would also serve in an advisory ca
pacity in regard to local sales, thus
having control Of all wheat offered on
the market. It was the sense Of the
meeting that the American Wheat
Growers should be incorporated, with
capital stock or otherwise, at the
discretion Of the board Of trustees.
The central selling agency would be
established, az well as sub-agencies at
the various terminal points wherever
it is deemed advisable.
Among the speakers who took part
in the discussions was w. G. Robin.
son Of London. who pointed out the
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