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Number 6 



June, 1930 



Volume 8 



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Earl C. Smith Discusses 



Grain Market Program 



Growers Assemble at Blootnington 



June 6 to Review Recent 



Developments 



(cHr HROUGHOUT the development 

 -I- of the commercial services which 

 h.ive been initiated and organized by 

 the Ilhnois Agricultural Association, it 

 has moved forward only after securing 

 the approval of representa- 

 tive le.iders and members of 

 the organization. In line 

 with that policy, this meet- 

 ing has been called for the 

 purpose of discussing vari- 

 ous elements that have de- 

 veloped affecting the future 

 welfare of the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation," Earl C. Smith, 

 president of the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association, said 

 before a state-wide gather- 

 ing of grain producers at 

 Bloomington on June 6. 

 Reviews Efforts 

 "In order that we may 

 get a proper understanding 

 of all that is involved, I 

 think it may be well to take 

 just a few moments in re- 

 viewing the efforts made by 

 the I. A. A. and County 

 Farm Bureaus covering 

 many years to develop a 

 sound grain marketing pro- 

 gram," he continued. 



"Since my first election 

 to the Executive Committee of the I. 

 A. A. in 1923, there has been no sub- 

 ject matter that has received as much 

 consideration and with apparently so 

 little result as that of grain mar- 

 keting. Throughout the years urgent 

 and continuing requests for a stimula- 

 tion of grain marketing activity have 

 come to the administration. Commit- 

 tees have been appointed and given 

 much time and study to all phases of 

 the question and the various possibili- 

 ties. In each case it was recognized 

 that any successful grain marketing 



plan must be founded upon the local 

 co-operative elevator. Recognizing that 

 the Farmers Grain Dealers' Association 

 of Illinois, while not a marketing or- 

 ganization, was constituted from many 

 of the farmers' elevators in Illinois, the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association early in 

 1927 invited the Farmers Grain Dealers' 

 Association of Illinois to select a small 

 committee, which would be available to 

 meet with a similar committee repre- 

 senting the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation. This invitation was premised 



More Than 800 Attend i 



Bloomington Meeting 



40 Counties Represented at Grain 

 Marketing Conference 



THE OLD WAY 



FARMERS fARnCRS FAft/nEflS FARmCfts FARnCKS 

 ELEVATOR ELtVATOA ELEVATOR ELEVATDA EUVATOII 



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LACK OF 



CO-OPERATION 



EXPORTER 



THE MODERN WAY 



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FARmeRS 



ELEVATOR 



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FAKrnens farmers 



£ LEVATOR ELEVATOR 



(co-operation) 



upon the desire to work out, if possible, 

 a grain marketing program that would 

 justify and carry the full support of all 

 who were anxious to serve the best in- 

 terests of the grain producers. This 

 committee, which was known as the 

 (Mutual Relations Committee,) held 

 many meetings throughout 1927, 1928 

 and most of 1929, but were unable to 

 agree upon the main essentials for a 

 grain marketing program. 



"Those representing the Farmers 

 Grain Dealers' Association have insisted 



(Continued on page 4, column I) 



MORE than 800 grain producers, 

 most of them farmers' elevator 

 directors and stockholders, assembled at 

 Bloomington on June 6 in a state-wide 

 gathering to hear about recent develop- 

 ments in the efforts of Illinois farmers 

 to organize an effective co- 

 operative grain marketing 

 program. 



By 1:45 p. m. the lower 

 floor and balcony of the 

 Illini Theatre were filled. It 

 was a serious-minded audi- 

 ence assembled to get facts, 

 and defend, if necessary, the 

 efforts of their organization 

 in serving the interests of 

 grain producer members. 



The meeting was digni- 

 fied throughout. Considera- 

 tion of the problem before 

 the producer was kept on a 

 high plane without the in- 

 jection of personalities into 

 the discussion. The bulk of 

 the three-hour program was 

 confined to statements per- 

 taining to co-operative grain 

 marketing, the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation, and plans for 

 the future. 



Johnstone Presides 

 G. C. Johnstone of Bloom- 

 ington, president of the Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation, presided. After 

 short opening remarks by Harrison 

 Fahrnkopf, secretary of the I. G. C., 

 President Earl C. Smith told of efforts 

 put forth in years past on grain mar- 

 keting and answered charges given most 

 prominence in propaganda disseminated 

 among elevator directors and stock- 

 holders. 



Secretary Geo. E. Metzger gave an 

 interesting talk illustrating the present 

 system of grain marketing and dis- 

 closing the need for volume control of 

 grain to give the producer bargaining 



FORCW4I moccsM« 

 •UYER 



