Participation in cooperative canning usually offers a grower the advantage of an assured outlet for his raw product, because cooperative canneries generally stand ready to receive his crop for processing, regardless of the market situation. Thus the grower's risk of not having an outlet for his product may be reduced or even eliminated.

The foregoing article is based, in part, on a statement prepared at the request of and submitted to the United States Congress, House of Representatives, Select Committee on Small Business (Subcommittee No. 5 on Food Distribution Problems) at Hearings held in San Francisco, California, November 9, 1959.

An article on grower cooperative bargaining associations will be published in a forthcoming issue of California Agriculture.