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Organization and Operation of Breeders' Cooperatives

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

Artificial Insemination Associations are relatively new in this country. Consequently, the problems involved in organisation and operation are of considerable interest to a rather large group. At present there are at least 17 states in which artificial insemination is being used in an organized way in breeding dairy cows.

Sound organization and efficient operation and management are of vital importance in the success of these breeding rings. Wisconsin now has 15 counties in which artificial insemination associations offer service to the dairyman. All of this growth has taken place in less than two years, and no two of the organizations have been set up exactly alike. We have worked under the assumption that cooperatives set up under our state laws would give us the soundest organizations.

In the organization of these cooperatives there has been no attempt to high-pressure farmers into joining. In all counties where rings are in operation there has been a real demand from the dairymen themselves for this service. The College, through its extension staff, has helped with the educational program, and with the organization and operation of the rings after they were started.