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Show Duchesne Co-op Launches Basin Expansion Program The Farmers Exchange Cooperative Co-operative of Duchesne recently joined the National Farmers Union, Un-ion, bought the Duchesne Flour and Feed Mill and launched an I aggressive development plan. The Farmers Union program was voted by directors of the co-op who also approved a development de-velopment plan submitted by D. E. and Clair Black, managers. The Duchesne mill was purchased pur-chased with funds from locally subscribed stock and a $6000 National Farmers Union loan. The Black brothers were re-employed as the managers. One hundred and seventy members now comprise the Duchesne Du-chesne Co-op, and 200 others are reported to have pledged membership mem-bership as soon as full scale operations op-erations get underway. The Co-op officers explained that their purchase of the Duchesne Du-chesne mill under a Farmers Union Un-ion program will help to eliminate elimi-nate the shipping of grain from Uintah Basin points to be processed pro-cessed into feed and shipped back into the area at high freight rates. The group hopes to buy local grain, make flour, process feed and market both within the Basin. Ba-sin. Plans for distribution and pick-up in Duchesne and Uintah counties by truck and local warehouse facilities are in the making. A program of future expansion expan-sion of the co-operative into other fields of activity is under discussion. |