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Show Utah Hay Growers organize in California last year's prices. The dealers are obviously pushing to discourage the growers from going ahead with this co-op effort. We do have dedicated growers" who are disappointed with past marketing experience ex-perience and want more of a voice in their own destiny. Through a strong marketing co-op, they can achieve this reported Zitting. Zitting graduated from Utah State in agricultural economics and is a Utah hay grower himself with a vested interest in helping to make the co-op a successful venture for all Utah farmers. Any hay growers wishing to join can contact any of the officers mentioned. Utah State Extension Service recently showed that alfalfa is the third largest dollar volume agricultural comodity in Utah, led by dairy and beef, making hay the leading dollar volume crop ! in the state. An estimated 300,000 tons of Utah hay is shipped into the Chino-Corona Chino-Corona Dairy area of southern California annually. on the overall market by increasing the interest by the brokers and dealers in Utah hay and by creating a more com-petative com-petative atmosphere. "Even though quoted and published prices on the Chino Valley Dairy hay market are about the same as last year's prices, the growers are being offered prices often $10 to $15 per ton above CORONA, CALIF. Utah's Hay Growers, with the help of several local citizens, is off the running in a co-op effort to bring more organization into the hay marketing process, so vital to hay growers economic survival. Utah Hay Growers, Inc. a marketing co-op organized by a group of Utah hay growers opened its office complete with truck scales and hay yard in Corona, Calif, on July 1. Gayle Wood of Parowan is the president of the organization, with Dennis Crane of Richfield as secretary. Utah hay is inspected in the stacks at the member's mem-ber's farm by William Kelly Tuttle of Holden, field director, and a report of the grade and quality is sent to the Corona office where salesman Warren Ross goes to work finding a buyer. Some hay is also sold off the lot. Marketing Director Joseph C. Zitting from Buckhorn Flat has reported that the co-op is having a favorable effect |