Records [microform], 1945-1978.

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Records [microform], 1945-1978.

Records of a successful dairy cooperative in eight east-central Wisconsin counties; including a brief history; minutes of various kinds of meetings, 1946-1960; advertising scrapbooks; and scrapbooks of clippings and magazine articles, 1946-1976, on general affairs of the Cooperative including information on pollution of the Neshota River and on a dispute with the National Farmers Organization on milk withholding actions.

6 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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National Farmers Organization (U.S.)

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The National Farmers Organization (NFO) was founded in 1955 to combat low prices farmers received from food processors. The NFO argued that farmers made up nine percent of the nation's population but only earned four percent of its income. The early history of the NFO was marked by radicalism; farmers organized withholding actions to increase prices, then staged boycotts and protests. The more aggressive aspects of the organization's activities receded by 1979, when its focus turned to collectiv...

Torgerson, Truman.

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Lake to Lake Dairy Cooperative.

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