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K.S.A. § 17-1601 (2026)

Purpose of cooperative marketing act

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17-1601. Purpose of cooperative marketing act. 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.

History: L. 1921, ch. 148, § 1; R.S. 1923, 17-1601; L. 1953, ch. 129, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 1; July 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14 cases, 1924–2011 · leading case: Atchison Cnty. Farmers Union Co-Op Ass'n v. Turnbull, 736 P.2d 917 (Kan. 1987).
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Atchison Cnty. Farmers Union Co-Op Ass'n v. Turnbull, 736 P.2d 917 (Kan. 1987). · cites it 4× “*358 The Co-op is a non-profit association organized under K.S.A. 17-1601 et seq. Headquartered in Atchison, Kansas, the Co-op provides services to approximately 2,000 members.”
Hall v. Kansas Farm Bureau, 50 P.3d 495 (Kan. 2002). · cites it 2× “The Farm Bureau was organized pursuant to the Kansas Cooperative Marketing Act, K.S.A. 17-1601 et seq. “4. The thirteen member Board of Directors is elected by the voting delegates at die annual meeting.”
Great Rivers Coop. Of Se. Iowa v. Farmland Indus., Inc., 198 F.3d 685 (8th Cir. 1999). “Thus, the class asserts that Cleberg and Shively breached their fiduciary duty by failing to redeem the Type 12 credits.”
State Ex Rel. Steere v. Franklin Cnty. Farm Bureau, 239 P.2d 570 (Kan. 1951). · cites it 7× “, can engage in any such activity under the Cooperative Marketing Act under which said corporation was purportedly organized, namely Sections 17-1601 to 17-1631, General Statutes of Kansas, 1935, as amended.”
In re Processed Egg Prods. Antitrust Litig., 836 F. Supp. 2d 290 (E.D. Pa. 2011). “Seemingly, the Cooperative Marketing Act, Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 17-1601 to 17-1636, which provides, "[n]o association, contract, method or act which [under Kansas law qualifies as, or is conduct attributed to, an agricultural cooperative association] shall be deemed a conspiracy or…”
State ex rel. Arn v. Consumers Coop. Ass'n, 183 P.2d 423 (Kan. 1947). · cites it 2× “489, as follows: *334 '“Defendants also deny the allegations contained in paragraph seven of Plaintiff’s petition and allege and state that if the Plaintiff Association (present defendant) is not legally entitled to exist as a ‘Marketing Association’ under Section 17-1601 et…”
In re the Appeal of Nat'l Coop. Refinery Ass'n, 44 P.3d 398 (Kan. 2002). “NCRA is a Kansas cooperative marketing association organized in 1943 as a nonprofit association under the Kansas Cooperative Marketing Act, K.S.A. 17-1601 et seq. NCRA owns all outstanding capital stock of its subsidiary corporations — Clear Creek, Inc.”
Kansas Wheat Growers Ass'n v. Floyd, 227 P. 336 (Kan. 1924). “The plaintiff is a cooperative marketing association organized under sections 17-1601 to 17-1625 of the Revised Statutes.”
Kansas Wheat Growers Ass'n v. Rinkel, 271 P. 311 (Kan. 1928). “The action is one to recover twenty-five cents a bushel damages provided for in a wheat growers’ contract entered *734 into under sections 17-1601 to 17-1625, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes.”
Ihrig v. Frontier Equity Exch. Ass'n, 128 P.3d 993 (Kan. Ct. App. 2006). “See K.S.A. 17-1601 et seq. Frontier operates co-ops in Goodland, Brewster, Ruleton, and Bird City.”
Great Rivers Coop. v. Farmland Indus., Inc., 198 F.3d 685 (8th Cir. 1999). “Second, the class asserts that Farmland’s bylaws specifically mandate that the capital credits be retired in the order of their issuance.”
Kansas Wheat Growers Ass'n v. Leslie, 271 P. 284 (Kan. 1928). “: This action is brought by a cooperative'marketing corporation, organized under sections 17-1601 to 17-1625 of the Revised Statutes, to recover stipulated damages of twenty-five cents a bushel from R.”
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