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.
K.S.A. 17-1601