The purpose of the cooperative marketing act is to promote, foster and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products through cooperation and to eliminate speculation and waste; make the distribution of agricultural products as direct as can be efficiently done between producer and consumer; stabilize the marketing of agricultural products; and promote the development of the most profitable and permanent system of agriculture, the most wholesome and satisfactory living conditions, the highest ideals in home and community life and a general interest in the improvement of field crops and livestock and in the business of farming and in rural life.
K.S.A. 17-1601
Purpose of cooperative marketing act
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Morton v. Santa Anna National Bank (In Re Bonnema) (1998)
Most recently applied in In re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation (December 2011)
L. 1921, ch. 148, § 1; R.S. 1923, 17-1601; L. 1953, ch. 129, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 1; July 1.
Official source: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Kansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.