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Number 7 



JULY, 1931 



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By Harrison Fahrnkopf 



H. Fahrnkopf 



THE Illinois Grain Corporation is 

 one of twenty-five grain marketing 

 regionals which own the Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corporation. The organi- 

 zation is state-wide 

 in scope, while the 

 latter organization is 

 the national grain 

 marketing agency set 

 up by grain market- 

 ing co-operatives of 

 the United States at 

 the suggestion of and 

 under the direction 

 of the Federal Farm 

 Board. 



The Illinois Grain 

 Corporation does not 

 duplicate the work of the Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corporation. The function 

 of the state regional is to originate the 

 grain. This is done through the local 

 co-operatives in the country. The work 

 of the National is that of contacting 

 the millers and processors who buy 

 grain. The state regional assembles the 

 grain. The Farmers National Grain 

 Corporation sells and merchandises it. 

 Co-operative marketing will make for 

 an improved agriculture, and an im- 

 proved agricultural situation will bene- 

 fit the entire business structure of the 

 country. The farmer can improve his 

 business by efficient production and effi- 

 cient marketing. 



Efficiency and Economy 



The handling of grain through large, 

 well-managed single selling agency 

 channels should eliminate waste and 

 make for efficiency and economy. For 

 this reason, co-operative marketing de- 

 veloped on a sound and constructive 

 basis will benefit both the producer and 

 the consumer. 



Illinois ranks high as a producer of 

 grain. A large quantity of this grain 

 produced is marketed, is not fed on 

 farms where grown. In fact, if we had 



SIX other states which marketed as much 

 grain as Illinois, these six, together with 

 Illinois, would furnish for market all 

 the grain in the United States. 



There are operating in Illinois today 

 approximately 4 JO farmers* elevators, 

 which handle more than one-half of all 

 the grain going into mirket channels 

 from Illinois. The grain marketed from 

 these local co-operatives totals approxi- 

 mately one hundred million bushels. 

 Thinking farmers who believe in han- 

 dling this grain co-operatively through 

 their local elevators also believe that 

 it is to their advantage to sell this grain 

 at the terminal market through their 

 own co-operatives. If it is a good thing 

 for one hundred or more farmers to co- 

 operate locally in shipping their grain, 

 it ought to be a good thing for one 

 hundred or more farmer elevators to co- 

 operate in merchandising their grain 

 through a single sales agency. The Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation is such a co- 

 operative sales agency. 



All Owned by Grower 



The Illinois Grain Corporation is sup- 

 ported by memberships of local co-op- 

 eratives. The farmer holds a member- 

 ship in his local elevator, the elevator 

 holds a membership in the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation, and the Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration is a member of the Farmers 

 National Grain Corporation. Thus the 

 entire structure is producer-owned and 

 producer-controlled. The first elevators 

 to become members were pioneers in the 

 movement. They made a cash stock 

 subscription which enabled the Illinois 

 Grain Corporation to become a going 

 concern. Now elevators can become 

 members without a cash stock subscrip- 

 tion. 



Interest in the state-wide co-opera- 

 tive is growing every day. Indifference 

 is being replaced by enthusiasm for the 

 plan of marketing through the Illinois 

 Grain Corporation. Today many farm- 



ers, especially directors of elevators, are 

 informing themselves as to how they 

 can link their elevator and community 

 with this worth-while movement. They 

 are beginning to realize that just as 

 surely as it is good for farmers to co- 

 operate it is equally good for co-opera- 

 tives to co-operate. 



Midwest Grain Corp. 



The grain sales or operative end of 

 the Illinois Grain Corporation is set up 

 as a separate organization known as the 

 Mid-West Grain Corporation. Under 

 this name is handled all business per- 

 taining to the merchandising of grain. 



In addition to offices at Chicago, Pe- 

 oria and St. Louis and memberships on 

 the boards of trade and grain exchanges 

 in these cities, branch offices are located 

 at Jacksonville, Decatur and Pontiac, 

 Illinois. C. P. Cummings, a man with 

 more than a quarter of a century of 

 successful experience in merchandising 

 grain, is manager of the Mid-West 

 Grain Corporation. Mr. Cummings has 

 associated with him in the various of- 

 fices a group of very able and compe- 

 tent men. All of the foregoing person- 

 nel and service is now available to the 

 farmer whose local co-operative is a 

 member of Illinois Grain Corporation. 

 If your local elevator is not a member 

 of this state-wide co-operative, you 

 should inquire why it is not a member. 



The Producers* Opportunity 



Illinois farmers have the opportunity 

 of marketing their grain through co- 

 operative channels to the miller and 

 processor. In many communities there 

 have been operating for years co-opera- 

 tive farmers' elevators. Until recently 

 co-operative marketing of grain has not 

 advanced successfully beyond this local 

 elevator station. The producer now has 

 an opportunity to support and use not 

 only his local grain marketing agency 

 but his state and national agency as 

 well. 



