Grain co-ops mooted
The setting up of regional co-operatives to prepare grain for sale will be investigated by the agriculture section of North Canterbury Federated Farmers.
The section’s executive committee yesterday passed, a remit from the Omihi; branch ‘‘that it investigate: the setting up of regional co-; operatives rather than the establishment of a Grains, Board.” The remit was carried by six votes to five. A spokesman for the Omihi! branch said that under a co-j operative system, farmers! would be paid for all the; grain they produced. All! gram that was not of top! quality would be dressed-out and sold locally to the pig and poultry industries. The branch suggested that processing plants could be, built at Amberley, Darfield.: and in the area south of’ Christchurch. It emphasised that farmers who joined a cooperative would retain the right to sell their grain where they! wished.
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Press, 14 October 1976, Page 2
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