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805 ILCS 315/5

(805 ILCS 315/5) (from Ch. 32, par. 444)

Sec. 5.

Every group of persons contemplating the organization of an
association under this Act is urged to communicate with the Director of
Agriculture, who will share any information the Department may have
regarding the marketing
conditions affecting the commodities proposed to be handled.

It is here recognized that agriculture is characterized by individual
production in contrast to the group or factory system that characterizes
other forms of industrial production; and that the ordinary form of
corporate organization permits industrial groups to combine for the purpose
of group production and the ensuing group marketing and that the public has
an interest in permitting farmers to bring their industry to the high
degree of efficiency and merchandising skill evidenced in the manufacturing
industries; and that the public interest urgently needs to prevent the
migration from the farm to the city in order to keep up farm production and
to preserve the agricultural supply of the nation; and that the public
interest demands that the farmer be encouraged to attain a superior and
more direct system of marketing in the substitution of merchandising for
the blind, unscientific and speculative selling of crops; and that for this
purpose, the farmers should secure special guidance and instructive data
from the Director of Agriculture.

(Source: P.A. 93-197, eff. 7-14-03.)