Published every Thursday at Palmer, Alaska, for the Matanuska Valley Farmers’ '
Cooperating Association for the -purpose of giving news of the Associations Work,
Problems, and Accomplishments. ' '
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FROM THE COOPERATIVE WORLD . . .
• In an agricultural survey in the State of New;- York and report made to Gov. Dewey and
the Legislature we find a bit of prAise for the Co-operatives.
."New York farmers haYa had a quarter-century of experience with cooperative purchas
ing of farm supplies, marketing of some farm products and other services. The result*
generally throughout agriculture, anpears to be confidence in the soundness and
efficiency of this practical expression of the farmer’s will to help himself,
"Some cooperatives foiled in the early years of the movement in this state through
faulty organization and the mistakon idea that the cooncrative was the panacea for
all farm ills. Others, well organized, soundly financed, efficiently managed and
dedicated to certain definite fields of operation, have established an enviable rec
ord of service to New York agriculture,"
From 1930 to'1945, the report pointed out, the number of active farmer,.cooperative
associations, excluding fire insurance co-ops, increased from 206 to about 600, in
cluding 100 milk marketing organizations either operating milk plants or bargaining
with distributors for the sale of members’ milk; 17-co-ops primarily marketing fruits
and vegetables; more than 300 purchasing feed, soed, fertilizer and other farmer sup
plies for their members and more than 100 providing'such services for'farmers as arti
ficial brooding of cattle, operation of labor camps, spray rings, etc,
H.E. Babcock, at one time employed by Co-ops but now a farmer patron, has this to say:
" As a fanner, I am not interested in too fine distinctions among the functions for
which I can use cooperatives. I want to use the cooperatives to perform the tasks
necessary to provide me with the sorvicos and supplies I need to carry on my business.
If making the distinction between a purchasing and a marketing cooperative moans that
a truck which brings supplies to my firm is going back empty, while another truck
comes out empty to pick up my produce, I’m for loading the truck both ways;”
(While we have had a combination purchasing and marketing association here, it is
rather a new idea elsewhere. This typo does have its advantages.)
From the world’s largest dairy marketing cooperative the Land 0’Lakos Creameries Inc,
wo learn that its annual income has boon boosted past the 80 trillion dollar mark.They
held their silver .jubileo in March of this year. It started with an idea, no money,
no membership and a borrowed desk. Where will the MVFCA be in 20 years?
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