The border vidette., 1932-12-31
ARIZONA PRODUCERS PROTEC-
TIVE ASSOCIATION

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Farmers, truck growers. fruit
and vegetable growers, dairy
men. and poultry raisers can not
sell their products at price suf.
ficient to enable them to pay
taxes and interest over and above
q hand to.mouth living" says
Ernest r. Hall of Phoenix, pres
ident of the Arizona Producers
Protective Association and
prominent Maricopa county far.
mer and horticulturist. We
are striving through our associa
tion to make it possible for these
producers to better these local
conditions.
We believe that these pro
ducers are entitled to at least an
even break on the Arizona mar
ket. On account of our distance
from the denser populated sec
tions of the country we are at
q disac vantage with those grow
ers of the same products who
are nearer the larger markets.
The Arizona market has been
our most profitable one for most
of our products. as the price in
past, has been based on delivery
here from other sections of the
country.
! In other words, we got the
same price for our wheat, live
stock, eggs, poultry, fruit, vege
tables, and other products that
the farmer received in other sec
tions of the country, plus the
freight from where it was grown,
70 Arizona. This compensated
US for the price we received for
all the products we shipped out
of the state to distant markets,
for there we receive the price the
producers there receives, less
the freight from Arizona. The
! price generally was based on the
better grades of products. for it
did not pay to ship the lower
grades. = Y $500 - r
But now the situation is en-.
tirely different. due to the fact
that many so called wild cat
truckers are using our Arizona
markets as dumping ground
for culls of various agricultural
and. horticultural products.
| "TruckS are here. and here to
stay. They are an important
and necessary part of our eco
nomic life, and when used by
Arizona firms to bring in pro
ducts that we do not raise, or
can not, ia sufficient quantity to
supply the Arizona markets, do
not injure the Arizona producers
to great extent
The Arizona firms who bring
in or have these produ uct brought
10. buy the better grades. They
know what it costs to bring them
in and set the price accordingly;
but the wild cat trucker picks
up a load of lower grade pro
ducts. brings them here, and
dumps them for what be can
get. If the market is bare, or if
there is not sufficient quantity
of Arizona.grown products of
the same kind be brings in to
supply the local market, be
makes good profit on bis load.
If, however, the local market
is already supplied. and there is
sufficint quantity of Arizona
grown products to keep it sup
piled, be is compelled to cut the
price on his load below the Ari
zona grown products in order to
dispose Of it, and with this over
supply Arizona producers are
compelled to cut prices to meet
this unfair competition.
Take. for instance, my own
case, which also applies to the
o.her pecan growers in Arizona.
We believe that no country can
grow finer pecans than Arizona
and we are trying to develop pc.
can growing in Arizona. We do
not yet have sufficient quantity
to ship to the eastern markets
and create a demand for these
Arizona nuts. II fact, we do
pot have enough to supply the
Arizona market. We are trying
to get for our pecans what it
would cost a dealer to ship 10
pecans of an equal grade to com.
pete with ours. Truck loads of
pecans of The cheapest and in.
ferior grades were brought here
and disposed of in Arizona this
season 10 one instance the
trucker told me that he could not
dispose of his pecans for as much
! as be paid for them in Texas,
lbut because he was broke, he