Cooperative Farming

Excerpts: The Farm Security Administration, on its Projects, has organized 33 Cooperative Farming Associations. It is apparent that this Administration is conscientiously endeavoring to determine the contribution a Cooperative Farm should made to the rehabilitation of low-income rural families. Probably it will help our thinking to define the Cooperative Farm in its simplest terms. In the first place, it is a large-scale farm operated by a Corporation which is a Cooperative. Large-scale farming of various types is more or less common throughout the United States. Large-scale Cooperative Farming differs only in the distribution of the profits of such an undertaking. The difference is not one of agricultural technique. The change is one in business organization. The only new idea on a Cooperative Farm is that the profits, if any, go to the members of the Association in proportion to their labor rather than to individual proprietors or stockholders.