Abstract: Discusses the role of marketing cooperatives and marketing orders as strategies to control surplus farm production in the U.S. Problem faced by U.S. agriculture with farm surplus after the First World War; Details of the growth of agricultural cooperative movement; Information on the purpose and nature of marketing orders.

　　Subjects: SURPLUS agricultural commodities -- United States; MARKETING cooperatives; MARKETING orders; FARM produce -- Marketing; AGRICULTURE, Cooperative; UNITED States; Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities