Oral history interview with Melvin Sprecher, 1976.

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Oral history interview with Melvin Sprecher, 1976.

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Interview conducted by Dale Treleven of the Historical staff with Sprecher, rural Sauk City, Wisconsin, a dairy farmer who helped found Wisconsin Dairies Cooperative and served as chairman of the board of Land O'Lakes, Inc.; including discussion of consolidation of various dairy marketing cooperatives, details on the Wisconsin Creameries Association and on Dairy Maid Products Cooperative, service on national agriculture councils, dislike of the National Farmers' Organization, Sauk County school consolidation, his general farming experiences and opinions, and related topics.

7 tape recordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926227

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Dairy Maid Products Cooperative.

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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...

Sprecher, Melvin, 1911- .

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Wisconsin Creameries Association.

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Land O'Lakes, Inc.

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Wisconsin Dairies Cooperative.

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