In order to promote, foster, and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products through cooperation; to eliminate speculation and waste; to make the distribution of agricultural products between producer and consumer as direct as can be efficiently done; and to stabilize the marketing of agricultural products, this act is passed.
Part 12NONPROFIT COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS
Section § 14550
This law is all about improving the way agricultural products are marketed and sold. It encourages farmers to work together to market their products smarter and reduce waste. The goal is to cut out unnecessary middlemen and make it easier for products to go straight from producers to consumers. Overall, it's about making the process more efficient and stable.
agricultural marketing producer to consumer distribution efficiency speculation elimination waste reduction cooperation among farmers intelligent marketing orderly marketing stabilizing markets direct distribution agricultural products production efficiency consumer access marketing stability producer cooperation
Section § 14551
This law acknowledges that farming is usually done individually, unlike the collective way things are made in factories. It highlights that while industrial groups can collaborate to make and sell products, farmers need similar support to improve efficiency and marketing skills like manufacturers. The law stresses that it's important for the public to support farmers to prevent them from leaving farms for cities, which would hurt food production. Essentially, it encourages a better way for farmers to sell their crops, moving away from unpredictable and speculative methods to more direct and effective marketing.
It is here recognized that agriculture is characterized by individual production in contrast to the group or factory system that characterizes other forms of industrial production; and that the ordinary form of corporate organization permits industrial groups to combine for the purpose of group production and the ensuing group marketing; and that the public has an interest in permitting farmers to bring their industry to the high degree of efficiency and merchandising skill evidenced in the manufacturing industries; and that the public interest urgently needs to prevent the migration from the farm to the city in order to keep up farm production and to preserve the agricultural supply of the nation; and that the public interest demands that the farmer be encouraged to attain a superior and more direct system of marketing in the substitution of merchandising for the blind, unscientific, and speculative selling of crops.
agriculture efficiency individual production group marketing industrial production contrast farmer support market efficiency prevent migration agricultural supply direct marketing speculative selling farming industry skills urban migration prevention public interest in farming merchandising agriculture improve farm production
