Show utah coops co ops do 0 farm business more than tripling over a ten year period the cooperative marketing of farm products and the purchasing pui chasing of farm supplies lits thru cooperatives pea tives lias has b become e c 0 in e a business in utah in another and older field of cooperation the irrigation of farm lands by mutual water companies utah leads the nation in the number of companies operating and in total memberships in these mutu als these salient facts are der ved from figures compiled by the farm credit administration in an exhaustive hau haa stive survey of farm cooperation in utah conducted by the berkeley california bank for cooperatives an unit and utah state agricultural college at logan the utah survey was part of a nationwide study made to determine the growth and extent of farmers fan ners participation in 0 so o op operative enterprise in the US poultry products eggs in particular rank first among cooperatively marka marketed ted commodities the survey fieldien field men found in 1936 the last full year studied the survey a D poultry business represented 44 per cent of all cooperative selling done in the state of this was accounted for by the eggs that went to market cooperatively only two other states in the nation reported a greater volume of coop co op eggs than did utah where the greater portion of the production was marketed by the utah poultry producers cooperative of salt lake city most of this associations ciati ons output is sold on the new york market utah is the leading state in coop turkey product production ion in 1936 producers cooperatively marketed turkeys worth more than a vo volume I 1 u me well ahead of colorado california and oregon the other leading turkey states livestock is important in the cooperative picture cattle e sheep hogs and calves valued at were s shipped hipped by local stock associations during the survey year ten sugar beet associate associations ions organized to U bargain for the prices to be paid members by sugar factories sold beets worth sla representing more than half of the states total income for this commodity three other phases of farmer cooperation reported business for the year topping the million dollar mark dairies did a cooperative business f fruit r u it and vegetable coops co ops aggregated and wool worth was cooperatively marketed the purchasing of feeds accounted for 93 per cent of cooperative purchasing business which in 1936 to as contrasted with an estimated business 10 years earlier the oldest of cooperatives was found to be but thirty years old the greatest growth in farm cooperation in the deseret continued on page 13 utah farm coops continued from first page state having occurred since 1930 memberships in 70 market irp rr and purchasing our chasing as associations total nearly providing a valued service the mutual irrigation companies of utah numbering with memberships occupy a dominant position in the states agriculture utah has the oldest cooperative water companies in the united states the earliest ones being formed in the days of mormon settlement they are reliably estimated to comprise well over 90 per cent of the states irrigation enterprises and account for more than 80 per cent of the irrigated territory in 1936 their net worth was just under for the most part these companies are small their memberships averaging 88 |