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Number 3 



MARCH, 1934 



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Volume 12 



Livestock Growers i 

 ;Meet at Bloomingtonf 



Earl Smith Cites Requirements To Gain Higher Price 



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HE big problem ahead for live- 

 stock growers generally is to 

 adjust production so as to feed 

 a supply of livestock into a demand 

 that can pay a fair price. And to make 

 sure that farmers secure a maximum 

 percentage of the consumers' livestock 

 dollar requires the concentration of 

 the sale of that livestock through co- 

 operative channels, Earl C. Smith, 

 president of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, told more than 300 co-op- 

 erative leaders at the annual meeting 

 ^^^^^■^^ : -^'^^^^^ of the Illinois 



Livestock Market- 

 ing Association in 

 Bloomington Feb 

 23. ,.,,,. 



The concentra- 

 tion of 85 per cent 

 of livestock sales 

 through your 

 own cooperative 

 marketing 

 agencies whether 

 moved direct from 

 . . ; the cooperative 



concentration points in the country or 

 through the co-operative commission 

 agencies on the terminal markets, is 

 a good mark to shoot at, Mr. Smith 

 said. He challenged the growers 

 to launch a mass movement in the 

 coming year toward boosting the 

 percentage of livestock marketed 

 co-operatively from the present 20 

 per cent in Illinois to at least 50 per 

 cent in 1934. Turning to P. 0. Wil- 

 son, secretary of the National Live- 

 stock Marketing Association, he sug- 

 gested that the national organization 

 get actively behind a similar move- 

 ment in the other livestock growing 

 states. :■ -.-^ ■v•';^ ' ^' . 



Mr, Smith expressed the belief that 

 organized selling of livestock from co- 



MR. SORHELLS 



operative concentration points in the 

 country direct to packers had a place 

 in the marketing picture and would 

 grow, but he strongly condemned what 

 he termed direct buying of livestock 

 by packers since this practice allows 

 the packer to beat down the price at 

 the terminal markets on which all 

 quotations in the country are based. 

 He stated that managers of district 

 co-ops. should see to it that producers 

 get the benefit of savings in direct 

 movement of livestock and not the 

 buyers. He predicted that Illinois will 

 be in the lead in the corn-hog signup 

 before the end of the sign-up period. 



: ^ Doubled Prof its i^ 



Secretary P. 0. Wilson reported 

 that member agencies of the National 

 Livestock Marketing Ass'n. had more 

 than doubled their profits during the 

 past year which would be reflected in 

 commission refunds and additions to 

 reserves, in spite of the fact that com- 

 mission rates had been reduced. Move- 

 ment of livestock through member 

 agencies gained approximately 12,000 

 cars during the year, about 25% of 

 which was contributed by Illinois 

 growers. He stated that the National 

 had fulfilled all its interest and prin- 

 cipal obligations to the federal gor- 

 ernment when due and predicted that 

 every penny outstanding on loans to 

 the National Livestock Credit Cor- 

 poration and for other purposes 

 could and would be repaid. ^ 



In a brief annual message to mem- 

 bers of the Association, President 

 Samuel Sorrells of Raymond pointed 

 out that the eight operating units han- 

 dled 2,033 decks of livestock in 1932 

 as compared with 3,167 decks in 1933, 

 an increase of nearly 50 per cent. 





'*More important than the mere vol- 

 ume handled," he said, "is the fact 

 that the program and policies of the 

 Association are more thoroughly un- 

 derstood than ever before and its pos- 

 sibilities from the standpoint of be- 

 coming a more important unit in the 

 family of livestock co-operatives are 

 greater than ever. v. ■-.•..■; ^^' ; -^ "''' '''r 

 "The Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association," Mr. Sorrells continued, 

 "was organized primarily to meet the 

 problem of direct buying of livestock 

 by packers. Its aim is to give farmers 

 who have been deprived of shipping 

 association service an opportunity to 

 sell their livestock through their own 

 agencies to the buyer wherever he may 

 be who will return the highest net 

 price." The Association, he said, is 

 working hand in hand with the co- 

 operative commission agencies in the 

 terminal markets so as to correlate 

 efforts to maintain and increase price 

 levels! ...,,,.-■ 



Wool Growers Profit 



Ray E. Miller, secretary of the As- 

 sociation, reported that 87 counties in 

 Illinois during the past year co-oper- 

 ated in the field service program with 

 a total of about 1,000 livestock com- 

 mitteemen. Approximately 800 local 

 meetings were held on the night of 

 Nov. 3 when a broadcast from Sta- 

 tion WENR Chicago was the principal 

 feature. The effect of the wool nMir- 

 keting program during the fiscal year 

 just closing has been to increase re- 



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