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 directors and under common manage- 

 ment. 



in making this recommendation, the 

 committee recognized many difficulties 

 that might arise in the purchase of 

 terminal agencies serving livestock farm- 

 ers in other states. In case such diffi- 

 culties could not be o\ertome, the com- 

 mittee suggested as an alternati\ e ret 

 ommendation. namely: that such term- 

 inal agencies be completely re-organized 

 so as to provide director representation 

 of states substantially in proportion to 

 the livestock originating in the respectivi.- 

 states; that in Illinois, such voting 

 rights be placed in the proposed state- 

 wide marketing agency in proportion 

 to the livestock originating within the 

 state. 



To complete the livestock buying pro- 

 gram, the committee recommends that 

 the state agency develop a statewide 

 order buying company. This so-called 

 order buying company would, in reality, 

 be a sales agency selling livestock for 

 local units already established or to be 

 established just as the .state officer of 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Association 

 does now. 



The financing of the state livestcxk 

 marketing agency would be through the 

 sale of stock to livestock farmers. Farm 

 Bureaus and other farm organizations. 

 Additional concentration points would 

 be set up over the state in the livestock 

 producing areas, as County Farm Bureaus 

 in the area directed, and where local 

 C.ounty Farm Bureaus were ready either 

 in one county or more than one county 

 to raise the money to finance the neces- 

 sary tacilities and operations of such a 

 [x)int. The purchase of livestock in 

 these points would be made direct from 

 the farmers on bids secured from buyers 

 by the state-wide marketing agency. Pro- 

 vision is made for the flow of patronage 

 dividends, if any. to the Farm Bureau 

 nieinbers patronizing the agencies. 



The (ommittee recommended further. 

 tli.it when such state asjency is set up. 



W. E. Temple, La Salle county, rises to 

 oHer his views on new lAA livestock 

 marketing program during meeting in De- 



that it provide for a department of re- 

 search and information which would give 

 consideration to several subjects pertinent 

 to the marketing operations. 



It recommended that special consider 

 ation be given to the purchase of feeder 

 livestock, pointing out that the interests 

 of the seller of feeder livestock and the 

 buyer of feeder livestock are so oppxjsed. 

 that it is hard to carry on that operation 

 through a selling organization. 



The committee also recommended the 

 development of an effective field service 

 and that the proposed state- wide market- 

 ing agency give careful study to the pos- 

 sibility of cooperative transportation. 



It is also recommended that such state 

 agency give consideration to the con- 

 struction and operation of a pilot pack- 

 ing plant. 



With respect to licensing of markets, 

 it was the conclusion of the committee 

 that such a venture is a national program, 

 and that the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation should make the following rec- 

 ommendations to the American l-'arm 

 Bureau Federation and the National 

 Livestock Producer Association: 

 (a) That an effort be made to piaie 

 the slaughterer of a volume of 

 livestock to be determined under 



Statewide livestock marketing committee studies problems oi cooperative marketing. 



Ealb. Ian. 30. Meeting was one of a 

 series designed to get farm opinion on 

 program. 



the packer and stockyard act. 



(b) That an effort be made to place 

 more of the concentration and 

 country buying points under a 

 regulated license system. 



(c) That an effort be made to pass leg- 

 islation that would restrict the 

 large slaughterers (over a certain 

 volume to be determined) to these 

 regulated markets for the purchase 

 of their supply of livestock 



This committee made its report to 

 the large committee and its report was 

 accepted and passed on as a recommen- 

 dation to the Board of Directors of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



Following the report of this com- 

 mittee, the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation board referred it to the lAA 

 marketing committee, who in turn con- 

 ferred with the officers and boards of 

 directors of the Producer Agencies All 

 Illinois members of the boards of di- 

 rectors of the Producer Agencies, and 

 Illinois Livestock were called together 

 on Oct ^. ly-i*!. The Illinois Livestock 

 Marketing Association and the Bush- 

 nell Producers Commission Association 

 tentatively endorsed the report. The 

 other agencies asked that they be per- 

 mitted to select a committee to work 

 out an alternative plan to be submitted 

 not later than the middle of November. 

 The report of that committee v^as re- 

 ceived by the lAA marketing commit- 

 , tee on Nov. It. 19i'> 



The agency committee report seems 

 to agree with the general i ommittee on 

 some points : 



(1) That some notable changes have 

 taken place since the organization 

 of the present cooperative live- 

 stock marketing system, and that 

 there were changes in the trans- 

 portation system, c+ianges in the 

 buying practices of packers and 

 the decentralization of processing, 

 and resulting changes in the dis- 



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RECORD 



'EBRUARY. 1946 



