Farmers Take the Reins of Local Creamery
After the Columbia Valley Creamery Co. faces dissolution, local farmers reorganize to form a cooperative, hoping to save their local industry.
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According to present plans the Columbia Valley Creamery company will go out of existence August 24 and the business will be opened up August 25 as the Kennewick Cooperative Creamery. Unless objections are interposed, the sale of the creamery by Receiver R. E. Pratt to the farmers of the valley will be confirmed by the court August 24. In the meantime the committee of farmers who have been promoting the cooperative effort will perfect their organization and be ready to begin operation of the plant. L. S. Crossland, one member of the committee, said this afternoon that with few exceptions patrons of the creamery had assigned their claims against the old company and in return will take stock in the new organization. A meeting is to be held Saturday of next week at which time it is hoped the organization can be perfected.
“Patrons of the creamery had assigned their claims against the old company and in return will take stock in the new organization.”
This reflects the recurring struggle of small-scale agricultural producers to control their own means of processing, a theme of economic self-determination that remains vital in agricultural regions today.
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