Committee of Seventeen Grain Marketing Plan Emerges
The Farmers' Grain Marketing Committee of 17 formed September 9, 1920, under J R Howard to devise improved grain distribution. After six months, its April 6, 1921 Chicago convention report led to adoption of a nationwide cooperative marketing plan. The U S Grain Growers Inc now has 50,000 members and 100,000,000 bushels under contract for five years.
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Ace
Farmers’ Grain Marketing Committee of 17
J. R. Howard
American Farm Bureau Federation
Committee of 17
Convention of Grain Growers
Chicago
U. S. Graig Growers, Inc
Why Dad Should Belong to the Farm Bureau
A collection of letters from farm children arguing that joining the Farm Bureau will secure a safer, better financed and educated future for families. They urge stronger communities, better roads and homes, fair government, and continued farming opportunity for their parents.
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the Farm Bureau
United States
Dad
Farm Bureau
Umior
Fe Fas
Varean
New Hampshire
Farmers as a political and economic force in American history
Prof. Ralph H. Gabriel discusses how farm families shifted from a rural labor base to a distinct economic group. He traces farmer organizations, the Populist rise and defeat, frontier closure, and early 20th century agrarian politics including cross party coalitions. He notes agrarian legislation and Arizona’s move to feed itself with local beef.
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The
Grange
Farmers’ Alliance
Agricultural Wheel
Congress
South
Virginia
Europe
President Harding Documents Agricultural Struggles In Book
President Harding discusses American agriculture in a book chapter. He notes farmers as individualists lacking defense against powerful capital and labor groups. He warns of new large organizations with aggressive leadership funding actions for member interests.
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Harding
Stand or Fall Together for United Farm Bureau
A call for unity within the American Farm Bureau Federation emphasizes that strength lies in compact county units and a united national body. The piece argues that victory and justice for agriculture come through allied effort and continued national solidarity.
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America
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau Federation
United Endeavor
Washington
Congress
Organize Oh Organize Farmers Call to Unite
The piece urges farmers across the land to organize and unite against oppression. It frames organizing as the path to feed the hungry world and achieve freedom from bonds of slavery, calling farmers to stand together from sea to sea.
Agricultural bloc praised for open, broad cooperation
The Review of Reviews lauds the agricultural bloc as an open, candid group of Senators and Congressmen from farm states, noting Gray Silver's early foresight and the bloc's early victories restoring the War Finance Corporation and advancing the Packers bill. It portrays the bloc as pragmatic, discarding party discipline to favor farmer interests amid a farming crisis calling for coordinated marketing and policy action.
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TRNAS
Judson C.welliver
Mr. Welliver
Washington
United States
Gray Silver
American Farm Bureau Federation
Silver
Welliver
Kenyon
Iowa
Capper
Kansas
Gooding
Idaho
McNary
Oregon
LaFollette
Wis
Ladd
N.D
Norris Nebr
Kendrik
Wyo
Fletcher
Fla
Sheppard
Texas
Heflin
Ala
Congress
Restored Finance Corporation
War Finance Corporation
Farm Bureau Growth Reflects Farmer as Business Leader
A defense of the Farm Bureau movement notes how farmers increasingly see themselves as business professionals alongside city merchants. Leaders and communities credit broad membership, service, and community spirit for the rapid rise to about one million members and widespread involvement in local life.
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Farm Bureau
Memnbers
United States
State Farm Bureau
National Farm Bureau
New York
Farm Bureau Movement
Kansas
Chicago
Ien
Khia
Cof Farsmers
Farmers and townspeople unite for Farm Bureau progress
Clifford Thorne urges local merchants and residents to back the Farm Bureau as a path to prosperity. He highlights benefits from better roads production knowledge and stronger community unity emphasizing knowledge and union as core principles.
Unites Commodity Marketing Groups With Farm Bureau Plan
A plan diagram shows an affiliation of commodity marketing organizations with the Michigan State Farm Bureau based on shared interests like seed legislation and purchasing. Circles depict cooperative business service between exchanges and the State Farm Bureau. The example illustrates how access to each exchange’s services could be offered under their rules and the bureau’s general services.
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Michigan State Farm Bureau
State Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
State Farm Bureau Federation
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Clifford Thorne
Farmers’ National Grais Neuters’ Association
Wm G. Eckhardt
Illinois Farm Bureau
C. H. Gustafson
Nebraska Farmers' Unison
U. S. Grain Growers, Inc
A. L. Middleton
Iowa Farmers' Grown Dealers Association
Ralph Snyder
Kansas State Farm Bureau
George Livngston
Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Cliford Gregory
Pratree Farmer
American Agricultural Editors’ Association
L. J. Taber
Ohio State Grange
Ohio
E. F. Ladd
North Dakota Agricultural College
North Dakota
John C. Boles
Farmers’ Equity Union
Don Livingston
South Dakota
C. A. Bingham
P. E. Donnell
Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ Association of Missouri
J. M. Anderson
Equity Co-operative Exchange
C. H. Hyde
Ohio Farmers' Union
William Hirth
Missouri Farmers’ Clubs
Frank Meyers
Farmers’ Grain Dealers Association
Ralph H. Gabriel
Yale University
Arizona
John F. Case
Bloc
County
State
National Farm Bureaus
Farm ‘Bureau
Earmsbureau
Temple of Agriculture
Commodity Organization Plan‘of
Sycar Growers" Assn
Associatio
Ruit Exchange
Ave
Exchange
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