SEED CO-OP ELECTS 



Producers Seed Company Reorganizes With 

 Nine-Man Board To Represent And Serve 

 Entire State In An Expanded Program 



C. B. Vander 

 Meulen 



REORGANIZAl ION of the Pro- 

 ducers' Crop Improvement As- 

 sociation as a tull-tiedgcd statewide 

 attiliated company ot the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association has been 

 completed with election of directors, 

 amendment of arti- 

 cles and change of 

 name. 1 he new name 

 ot tiic corn and seed 

 i<)opcrati\e \s ill he 

 I' r o d 11 c e r s' Seed 

 ( ompany. 



I hese matters 

 Were approved at a 

 special stockholders 

 meeting April 23 at 

 Pijier C-ity. Main 

 olfice and plant of 

 the Producers' Seed Company is located 

 in this community in I'ord county. 



Directors elected for the eight districts 

 of the state to the Producers' Seed Com- 

 pany board were: district 1, Frank R. 

 Loucks. Lockport, Will county; dist. 2, 

 Elmer L. Yeoman, Dakota, Stephenson; 

 dist. 3. Howard Stuckcy, Piper City, 

 Ford; dist. -i. Orville Lutes. Princeton, 

 Bureau; dist. '^, John T. Evans, Hoopes- 

 ton, \'trmilion; dist. 6. Ryal Keithley, 

 Macomb, McDonough; dist. 7, Clarence 

 Mc(;auley, Mt. Vernon, [efferson; and 

 dist. }S, Justin Ebert, Valmeyer. Monroe. 

 Dircctor-at-largc from the lAA board 

 is Frank L. Simpson. Farmer C^itv, De- 

 Witt. 



Otikers of Producers' Seed are Stuc- 

 key. president; Loucks, vice-president; 

 and Simpson, secretary-treasurer. 



S. I'. Russell, representing the lAA at 

 the reorganization meeting, paid special 

 tribute to the incumbent directors of the 

 old organization who stepped aside and 

 made i> possible to reorganize tiie repre- 

 sentation on a statewide basis into eight 

 districts. L'nder the old setup, a number 

 of the directors were from the area of 

 Ford and adjoining counties. This was 

 the area for which the cooperative was 

 first set up to serve back in 1937. 



In .iddition to hybrid seed corn. Pro- 

 ducer-. Seed will be the I.-\A affiliate for 

 the accjuisition, processing and coopera- 

 tive distribution of field seeds. First step 

 in the field seed program will be a sur- 

 vey of county Farm Bureaus and sub- 

 sidiari&s now handling field seeds to work 



out an efficient program. Main objective 

 is to provide Illinois I'arm Bureau mem- 

 bers with high quality seeds. It has not 

 been determined where headijuarters for 

 the tield seed program will be located. 



Producers' Seed Company will be 

 governed by the same rigid control of 

 quality regulations under a quality con- 

 trol committee of tiie lAA as is in effect 

 for other affiliates of the organization. 



On May 1, Evart Vander Meulen of 

 Waterloo. III., Monroe county, joined the 

 Producers' staff to head up the handling 

 of the field .seed program. Prior to this 

 date he was employed as a buyer tor .i 

 large seed company and is thoroughiv 

 tamiliar with the small tield seed busi- 

 ness. 



Vander Meulen. a native ot Michi- 

 gan has a fine record of research work 

 on the staff of Michigan State College 

 from which he was graduated in l')39 

 and where he received his master's degree 

 in 19 t3. He was in charge of agronomy 

 research at the College's Upper Peninsula 

 Experiment Station at Chatham for three 

 years and introduced a new oat variety 

 and a spring wheat variety. He grew 

 the first hve acres of ladino clover in 

 Michigan and did considerable work 

 with pasture improvement and hay man- 

 agement. In 19 i 1. Vander Meulen was 

 employed i->y the Corneli Seed Company, 

 St. Louis. lie had charge of establish- 

 ing corn and vegetable growing stations 

 in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma and 

 Liter was transferred to the field seed 

 department in charge of buying crop 

 seed-, at the source of production. He 



Board of directors of the Producers^ Seed 

 Company, new lAA affiliate, is made up of 

 one from each of the eight districts shown 

 on this map, and one at large from the 

 board of the lAA. 



aKo had charge of the field seed re- 

 search department. 



Vander Meulen developed an apprecia- 

 tion for cooperatives and Farm Bureau 

 from his father who is a charter member 

 ot the Michigan Farm Bureau and has 

 served tor 3^ years as president of a 

 county grain seed cooperative elevator. 

 While attending Michigan State Vander 

 Meulen helped organize the College I'arm 

 liureau. He worked his way through col- 

 lege through employment in the .igrono- 

 my department where he had charge of 

 lalx)ratorv work, and at the college farm 

 during summer months. 



New directors and 

 officers of the Pro- 

 ducers' Seed Com- 

 pany f front row), 

 left to right: Vice- 

 President frank R. 

 Loucks, Will county; 

 Orville K. Lutes, Bu- 

 reau; President How- 

 ard Stuckey, Ford; 

 Secretary • Treasurer 

 frank L, Simpson, De- 

 Witt, and Justin M. 

 tbert, Monroe. Back 

 row: Ryal I. Keithley, 

 McDonough; timer L. 

 Yeoman, Stephenson; 

 John T. Evans, Ver- 

 milion, and Clarence 

 McCauley, Jefferson. 



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