I A A Plans 



Junior Co-op Institute 



By CRESTON FOSTER, Idher IAA Racord 



ORGANIZATION by the lUinois 

 Agricultural Association of a 

 junior institute of cooperation to 

 train tomorrow's cooperative lead- 

 ers of the state was announced at 

 the fall meeting of Farm Bureau leaders 

 early in October at Springfield. 



The institute will be held early in Jan- 

 uary and three single men between the 

 iges of 17 and 25 will be selected to 

 attend from each county Farm Bureau of 

 Illinois. 



The selection will be made by the 

 county Farm Bureaus and associated 

 county cooperatives. It is expected that 

 those named will be drawn largely from 

 the ranks of 4-H and Future Farmers of 

 America clubs and Rural Youth groups. 



I. E. Parett, secretary of general serv- 

 ices for the IAA, outlined the great need 

 for such training in his announcement of 

 the institute. Most young farmers, he 

 said, have little opportunity to get any 

 formal training in cooperatives. After 

 they get nurried and leave Rural Youth 

 they are busy getting started in farming. 

 Before they are 30 years old, these young 

 men may be elected directors of coopera- 

 tives without having had a chance to 

 learn much about cooperative philosophy, 

 Parett said. 



According to present plans, the insti- 

 tute will be held once each year and will 

 consist of four full days of classes with 

 some evening sessions. Parett will serve 

 as chairman of the institute. 



President Charles B. Shuman presented 

 another matter of wide interest to the 

 leaders in discussing the 1948 Christian 

 Rural Overseas program for Illinois. He 



reported that the IAA board of directors 

 had decided that the Association would 

 lend its cooperation in this program, but 

 would not be in the position of sponsor- 

 ship. President Shuman said that he 

 knew many Farm Bureau members would 

 participate as individuals and through 

 their church organizations. 



Delivery of contributions to the 1948 

 CROP train is set for Nov. 29 to Dec. 2, 

 and the loading of cars is scheduled for 

 Dec. 11 to 14. The 300-car Abraham 

 Lincoln Food Train is scheduled to leave 

 Illinois on Dec. 15, according to Arnold 

 P. Benson, state director of agriculture, 

 and state chairman of CROP. 



The 1947 Abraham Lincoln train from 

 Illinois amounted to 6OI/2 freight cars of 



President Charles B. Shuman addresses the 



Farm Bureau Leaders Conference. At right 



is IAA Secretary Paul Mathlas. 



This is a view of audience at Farm Bureau 

 Leaders Meeting held in auditorium of 

 Knights of Columbus building at Springfield. 



gifts in kind, 15,469 packages of seeds 

 for peace, and the total value of dona- 

 tions amounted to $350,019.72. County 

 Farm Bureaus and their members were 

 responsible to a large degree for this 

 achievement. 



President Shuman also presented to 

 leaders the position of the Association in 

 regard to soybean grading and export al- 

 locations. He pointed out that the Asso- 

 ciation had vigorously demanded an in- 

 crease in the fourth quarter export allo- 

 cation from 2,800,000 bushels to at least 

 10 million bushels. 



The announcement of the small soy- 

 bean allocation in the face of the record 

 U. S. crop had unduly depressed the 

 market at harvest time. President Shuman 

 said that the Association had endeavored 

 to get an immediate increase in the allo- 

 cation while the soybeans were still in the 

 hands of the farmers. Historically, Presi- 

 dent Shuman pointed out, some develop- 

 ment seems to occur just after the beans 

 have been marketed by the producer and 

 handlers and processors reap the profits. 



President Shuman also said that he 

 planned to ask the IAA board of directors 

 to ask the proper government agency to 

 investigate the soybean and grain process- 

 ing and milling industry. 



The IAA president also said that the 

 Farm Bureau had urged three other re- 

 visions in soybean marketing practices: 

 1. that a sizeable portion of the soybean 

 export allocation be in the form of whole 

 beans; 2. that grades be revised so that 

 high quality beans be given proper recog- 

 nition; 3. that a premium be paid on low 

 moisture beans. These proposals have 

 been opposed by the soybean processing 

 industry. 



Other subjects discussed at the meeting 

 and reported elsewhere in this issue were 

 the taxation of cooperatives by Paul E. 

 Mathias, IAA secretary; the handling of 

 insurance claims and the grain marketing 

 program by George E. Metzger, IAA field 

 secretary and secretary of organization 

 and information. 



L. L. Colvis, secretary of marketing for 

 the IAA, reported on the need for addi- 

 tional financing to take care of expansion 

 in the grain, locker, and creamery pro- 

 grams. I 



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