1

1

Articles of incorporation

1956-1969

1

2

By-law changes

1960-1977

1

3

By-laws

1964-1965

1

4

Articles of incorporation amendments

1961

1

5

By-laws and articles of incorporation

1987-1989

1

6

Publications, correspondence, and certificates

1955-1970

1

7

General information

1956

1

8

Correspondence and information

1957-1958

1

9

National legislation

1957-1988

1

10

Telegrams

1958-1959

1

11

Resource material, including "An analysis of the present livestock marketing system" (1961), Congressional Record, and NFO background information

1961-1985

1

12

"A message from your president"

1963

1

13

1964 Democratic Convention

1964

1

14

Testimony

1966-1973

1

15

Milk holding action

1967

1

16

Swift and Company

1963

1

17

Holding action information

1968-1976

1

18

Legislative testimony and statements

1970-1971

1

19

Butz nomination

1971

1

20

State corporate farm laws

1976

1

21

Testimony

1971-1979

1

22

White House

1971-1983

1

23

Correspondence: Dahners/Sinclair

1972

1

24

Lien notice, September 28

1972

1

25

NFO trademark

1972-1973

1

26

Oren Lee Staley

1972-1979

1

27

Proposals for NFO

1973

1

28

Area office management - VeFAC study

1974

1

29

Commodity secretaries - VeFAC program

n.d.

1

30

Dues and memberships - VeFAC controls

n.d.

1

31

Grain accounting - VeFAC programming

n.d.

1

32

Board resolutions

1974

1

33

Minnesota Trust correspondence: Bud Cook

1975-1976

1

34

Declaration of Trust, amended and revised

n.d.

1

35

Borden, Inc.

1978

1

36

Certified Grocers of Illinois

1978

1

37

Frederick & Herrud, Inc.

1978

1

38

MBPXL, Inc.

1978

1

39

Spencer Foods

1976

1

40

NFO directors

1978

1

41

Testimony

1978

1

42

Congressional bills

1978-1979

1

43

"A message from your president," also speeches

1978-1979

1

44

Testimony

1978-1979

1

45

Potato Growers of Idaho (bills proposed)

1979

1

46

Testimony

1979-1980

1

47

Personnel functions

1980

1

48

Hertz discount agreement

1980

1

49

Correspondence and agreement: Chuck Lexum Jr.

1981

1

50

Brazil

1981

1

51

Contracts (blank): pork, cattle, milk

1982

1

52

Correspondence and related materials: Washington, D.C.

1989-1990

1

53

Resolutions and brochure

1999, n.d

2

1-2

Blank forms

n.d.

2

3

Contracts (blank)

1979

2

4

Dairy forms (blank)

n.d.

2

5

Grain forms (blank)

n.d.

2

6

Forms (blank)

n.d.

2

7

Resolutions

1956-1978

2

8

Convention books/programs

1957-1989, n.d.

2

9

5th Annual convention

1960

2

10

National convention materials

1964-1988

2

11

Annual convention

1965

2

12

NFO National resolutions

1965-1973

2

13

Annual convention address (by Hubert H. Humphrey)

1967

2

14

Conventions

1967-1968

2

15

NFO State resolutions (Illinois)

1968-1988

2

16

Proposed resolutions

1972-1975

2

17

Convention headquarters

1976

2

18

Convention rules

1977

2

19

Convention: NFO Reporter, biographies, and souvenir handbook

1978

2

20

National convention

1983

2

21

National convention

1964

2

22

State ratification tally

n.d.

2

23

Convention minutes

1972

2

24

Information put out by '72 Convention group

1972

2

25

National convention news releases

1972

2

26

National convention minutes and hearings

1972

2

27

Convention 1972 and affidavits

1972

2

28-32

'72 Convention Report

1972

2

33

Convention

1972

2

34

'72 Convention Report

1972

2

35

Notification letter sent to county, district, and state, re: directors

1972

2

36

Jack Grimmer: Hearing

1972-1973

2

37

Don Kimball: Hearing

1972

2

38

Don Maskal: Hearing

1972

2

39

John Oster: Hearing

1972

2

40

Bob Speer: Hearing

1972

2

41

Official hearing records

1972

2

42

NFO custodial fund conspiracy (North Dakota)

1972

2

43

Walt Farrar: Hearing

1972

2

44

Charles Walters: Newspaper clipping and response letter

1972-1973

2

45

Hearing Officer

1972

2

46

Charles Walters: Acres U.S.A. correspondence and '72 convention

1973

2

47

Ken Spitzer: '72 controversy (letter regarding operations of NFO)

1972

2

48

Affidavit key list

n.d.

2

49

Affidavits: Collective bargaining

1972

2

50

Affidavit #1: Art Phillips (Farrar, Grimmer, Kimball, Moskal, Oster, Speer)

1972

2

51

Affidavit #2: Glen Utley (Farrar, Grimmer, Kimball, Moskal, Oster, Speer)

1972

2

52-53

Affidavit #3-4: Gene Potter (Kimball)

1972

2

54

Affidavit #5: Len Schrade (Kimball)

1972

2

55

Affidavit #6: Bobby Flowers (Kimball, Farrar, Grimmer, Moskal, Speer)

1972

2

56

Affidavit #7: Ron Mattus (Kimball, Grimmer)

1972

2

57

Affidavit #8: Ed Tvrdy (Kimball, Farrar, Grimmer, Moskal, Speer)

1972

2

58

Affidavit #9: Joe Taylor(Kimball, Oster)

1972

2

59-60

Affidavit #10-11: Daniel Nauman

1972

2

61

Affidavit #12: Kenneth Hassenger (Grimmer)

1972

2

62

Affidavit #13: Chris Walker (Farrar)

1972

2

63

Affidavit #14: Bob Bausch (Farrar, Speer)

1972

2

64

Affidavit #15: Neil Morrissey (Farrar, Speer)

1972

2

65

Affidavit #16: Ira Williams (Farrar, Speer)

1972

2

66

Affidavit #17: Harlan Courtney (Farrar, Speer)

1972

2

67

Affidavit #18: Duane Wulfkuhle (Farrar, Speer)

1972

3

1

Affidavit #19: Chris Walker (Speer)

1972

3

2

Affidavit #20: George Anton (Speer)

1972

3

3

Affidavit #21: Laverne Daniels (Oster)

1972

3

4

Affidavit #22: Arlen C. Hanson (Oster)

1972

3

5

Affidavit #23: Wayne E. Kothe (Oster)

1972

3

6

Affidavit #24: Rodney Max Murfield (Oster)

1972

3

7

Affidavit #25: Rodney Lee Spilde (Oster)

1972

3

8

Affidavit #26: Gene Potter (Oster)

1972

3

9

Affidavit #27: Bill Look (Oster)

1972

3

10

Affidavit #28: Mike Summers (Oster)

1972

3

11

Affidavit #29: Bill Beach (Kimball, Farrar, Moskal, Speer)

1972

3

12

Affidavit #30: Bill Hibbert (Kimball, Farrar, Moskal, Speer)

1972

3

13

Affidavit #31: Jim Archibald (Kimball, Farrar, Moskal, Speer)

1972

3

14

Affidavit #32: Bill Sellhorst (Oster)

1972

3

15

Affidavit #33: George Anton (Oster)

1972

3

16

Affidavit #34: Ed Tvrdy (Kimball)

1972

3

17

Cooper Case

1975-1976

3

18

Malcom M. (Bud) Cooper, Meade Co., South Dakota

1975-1976

3

19

Loren Kubes, Lancaster Co., Nebraska

1975-1976

3

20

Kenneth M. Thayer, Lancaster Co., Nebraska

1975-1976

3

21

IRS

1967-1975

3

22

Western Title Insurance Company

1969, 1973

3

23

Taxes and right to do business

1970-1972

3

24

Custodial account

1972

3

25

Bank loans

1972-1973

3

26

Indiana tax matter

1972-1976

3

27

Loan guarantees

1973

3

28

1973 tax report: Extension

1974

3

29

IRS ruling on tax status (revoked)

1975

3

30

Brochures

1963-1984

3

31

Brochures and advertising

1968-1977

3

32

NFO publications

1968-1977

3

33

Brochures

1973

3

34

Handbook and brochures

1973

3

35-36

Brochures

1973-1977

3

37

"Focusing on NFO collective bargaining"

1969

3

38

"NFO commodity gram" (Dairy, feeder, grain, meat)

1971-1974

3

39

"NFO commodity gram" (Grain, dairy, meat, etc.)

1971-1973

3

40

"NFO commodity gram"

1971-1975

3

41

"The NFO family farmer"

n.d.

3

42-44

"NFO on the move"

1971-1978

3

45

Voting record and grass roots in politics

1982

3

46

News clippings

1957-1977

3

47

News articles

1964-1973, n.d.

3

48

News clippings

1964-1978

3

49

News clippings

1964-1985

4

1-3

News releases

1971-1989

4

4-5

Publicity

1962-2001

4

6-16

FBI-NFO references

1932-1984

4

17

Master contracts for dry edible beans

1963-1965

4

18

Meat contracts

1963-1969

4

19

Dairy marketing area

1966

4

20-23

Master contracts for milk

1962-1966

5

1-15

Master contracts for milk

1962-1968

5

16

Affidavits: Arkansas

1967

5

17

Affidavits: Colorado

1967

5

18

Affidavits: Georgia

1967

5

19

Affidavits: Idaho

1967

5

20

Affidavits: Illinois

1967

5

21-22

Affidavits: Indiana

1967

5

23-24

Affidavits: Iowa

1967

5

25

Affidavits: Kansas

1967

5

26

Affidavits: Kentucky

1967

5

27

Affidavits: Michigan

1967

5

28-29

Affidavits: Minnesota

1967

6

1-2

Affidavits: Missouri

1967

6

3

Affidavits: Nebraska

1962

6

4

Affidavits: New Jersey

1967

6

5

Affidavits: New York

1967

6

6

Affidavits: North Dakota

1967

6

7

Affidavits: Ohio

1967

6

8

Affidavits: Oklahoma

1967

6

9

Affidavits: Pennsylvania

1967

6

10

Affidavits: South Dakota

1967

6

11

Affidavits: Tennesee

1967

6

12

Affidavits: Wisconsin

1967

6

13

Affidavits: Wyoming

1967

6

14-15

Correspondence-Lyman S. Hulbert

1959-1967

6

16

Jerome F. Culler

1961

6

17

Matz v. Outagamie Producers Coop

1962

6

18

Larry Scalise

1962-1971

6

19

Legal cases: Producers Marketing Assoc. v. NFO; H. Kennedy v. Scudder, Harding, Lardner, Lardner, & Robb-Ross Co.

1964-1965

6

20

Investigation of NFO leak (Attorney Hall)

1965

6

21

Legal cases: U.S. v. NFO; Waters v. NFO; Alexander v. NFO; and "Message from your president"

1965-1967

6

22

Glenwood Packing Company

1966-1967

6

23

Hall v. NFO (U.S. Supreme Court)

1967

6

24

Correspondence: Rowley and Scott

1971-1975

6

25-26

Legal finances

1971-1975

6

27

Attorney fees

1972-1975

6

28

Worth Rowley (1 of 3)

1972-1977

7

1-2

Worth Rowley (2-3 of 3)

1972-1977

7

3-5

Attorney fees

1973-1977

7

6

Dairy suit expenses

1975

7

7-21

Attorney fees

1975-1977

7

22

Bennet v. Savannah Cotton and Naval Stores Exchange

n.d.

7

23

Marshall Durbin Farms v. NFO ("Broilers suit")

1970

7

24

Beatrice Foods Company

1970, n.d.

7

25

California Milling Corp. v. NFO

1971

7

26

Legal records-miscellaneous

1971-1972

7

27

Lee Sinclair

1971-1977

7

28

Attorney Light-South Dakota

1972

7

29

Dairy lawsuit

1972-1973

7

30

David Trowbridge re: Drish, Zimmerman, and Reinmund

1972-1973

7

31

Riley Creamery case; Lee Sinclair

1972-1975

7

32

Bluff City Cotton v. NFO

1973

7

33

Boaldin v. NFO

1973

7

34

Farm Products International, Inc.: Triticale

1973

7

35

U.S. v. NFO

1973

7

36

Court cases

1973-1974

7

37

Robert H. Kapp; Hogan & Hartson

1973-1974

7

38-39

Strausburger, Price, Kelton, Martin, & Unis

1973-1975

7

40

Foulston, Siefkin, Powers, & Eberhardt (Wichita, Kansas)

1973-1977

7

41

Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary, & Lombardi

1973-1977

7

42

NFO v. American Grain

1974

7

43

Bryan Barr

1974

7

44

Elmer Carlson

1974

7

45-46

Cook Industries v. NFO

1974

7

47

Iowa Trust; NFO v. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

1974

7

48

Thomas R. McDade

1974

7

49

Robel Beef Packers, Inc. contract

1974

8

1

NFO Members’ Grain Custodial Account, Iowa Trust

1974-1975

8

2

Good Pasture

1974-1976

8

3

Hogan and Hartson/IRS

1974-1976

8

4

NFO Cases and Legal Documents

1974-1978

8

5

Iowa Commerce Commission

1974-1979

8

6

Agri-Seeds Settlement

1975

8

7

Boller Lawsuit

1975

8

8

Coast packing letter from State of Washington

1975

8

9

Ernst & Ernst

1975

8

10

State of Iowa v. NFO—Iowa Consumer Credit Code

1975

8

11

Kenneth Thayer v. NFO

1975-1976

8

12

Asher lawsuit

1975-1977

8

13

NFO v. Coast Trading

1976

8

14

Nebraska Department of Agriculture hearing on grain

1976

8

15

Leroy Gilson, Boise area IRS info

1976

8

16

Attorney General Turner: Iowa case dues

1976

8

17

Iowa and South Dakota v. NFO

1976

8

18

Gallimore lawsuit

1977-1979

8

19

NFO v. Clark

1978

8

20

Albert Brothers v. Scotfield and NFO

1978-1979

8

21

Butler County (Iowa) and Dan Muller

1980

8

22-26

Roland Waters et al v. NFO

1966-1967

8

27-32

NFO v. E & H Grain

1973-1974

8

33-36

Iowa Trust

1973-1977

9

1

Mid-Am

1971-1977

9

2

Townley’s Dairy Company v. Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI)

1972

9

3

Billy Evans v. Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI)

1972

9

4

Ewald Brothers, Inc. v. Mid-America Dairymen, etc.

1972

9

5

Iliinois v. Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI)

1972

9

6

Northland Milk and Ice Cream Company v. Mid-America Dairymen, Inc.

1972

9

7

Dairy Distributors, Inc. v. Mid-America Dairymen, Inc.

1972

9

8

Published materials relating to Mid-American Dairymen lawsuit (Time; Farm Journal; annual report)

1973

9

9

Consent decree: Midwest milk monopolization

1974

9

10

All Star Dairy lawsuit

1974-1975

9

11

Irvin Elkin (AMPI President), column on lawsuit

1975

9

12

U.S. v. Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI)

1975-1978

9

13

Beatrice settlement (Midwest milk litigation)

1977

9

14

Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI) Narrative statement of damages

n.d.

9

15-16

Worksheets and narrative statements

1969, n.d.

9

17-23

Mid-American Dairymen, Inc. response narratives to NFO statements of fact

1975-1976

9

23-26

Beatrice Foods response narratives to NFO statements of fact

1976

10

1-2

Beatrice Foods response narratives to NFO statements of fact

1976

10

3

Copies of letters sent to Worth Rowley

1968-1974

10

4

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

1973-1974

10

5

SEC v. NFO

1973-1974

10

6

Affidavits: SEC - Oren Lee / Doris

1974

10

7

Correspondence with senators and congressmen

1974

10

8

Indiana securities, SEC

1974

10

9

Hank Libby, SEC

1974

10

10

Michigan complaint

1974

10

11

Minnesota Securities Commission complaint, SEC

1974

10

12

North Dakota complaint, SEC

1974

10

13

Worth Rowley (SEC file)

1974

10

14

Larry Scalise, SEC case

1974

10

15

SEC: Request of document production

1974

10

16

Stipulation, SEC Sept. 18

1974

10

17

Summons and motions to consolidate

1974

10

18

Written materials sent out relating to SEC suit

1974

10

19

SEC: Per Dick Green

1974-1975

10

20

SEC Motions of Judge rulings

1974-1975

10

21

Affidavits filed Staley and Peterson

1975

10

22

Copies of affidavits filed, SEC

1975

10

23

Correspondence, SEC v. NFO

1975

10

24

SEC - Ray Garrett, news clippings

1975

10

25

Second set of interrogatories

1975

10

26

Answers to interrogatories (1st Set), SEC: Filed 1975

1975

10

27

Judge's ruling and orders on hearing

1975

10

28

Judge Stuart’s ruling on Iowa Trust

1975

10

29

SEC v. NFO: Document request

1975

10

30

SEC v. NFO: Renewal of motion

1975

10

31

SEC’s request for hearing and replies

1975

10

32

Subpoenas

1975

10

33

Richard Green

1976-1977

10

34

SEC’s letter to Judge Sanders

1976

10

35

Sec v. NFO proposed consent decree

1976-1977

10

36-37

Alexander v. NFO interviews; Beatrice Foods

1968-1993

10

38

Alexander v. NFO

1971

10

39

Alexander v. NFO: Motion for sanctions

1971-1974

10

40

Settlement proposal, Rowley & Scott

1972

10

41-44

Alexander v. NFO

1972

11

1-11

Alexander v. NFO

1972-1975

11

12

"Wright Report"; Alexander v. NFO

1974

11

13

Judge Oliver: Alexander v. NFO

1974

11

14

Alexander v. NFO

1974-1975

11

15

NFO - Alexander pre-trial conference no. 30

1975

11

16

NFO - Alexander legal fees

1977

11

17

County / State / District charters

1975

11

18-22

Dwight Morris

1967-1974

11

23-25

Alexander et. al., vs. NFO et. al., Doris Peterson Deposition Exhibits #1-79

1965-1974

12

1-2

Deposition of Marjorie Wood

1973

12

3-20

Deposition of Oren Lee Staley

1974-1975

13

1

Deposition of Oren Lee Staley

1975

13

2-8

Deposition of Marjorie Wood

1972

13

9-12

Deposition of Lynn Reimund

1973

13

13-15

Deposition of Kenneth Stofferahn

1973

13

16-20

Deposition of Doris Peterson

1974

13

21

Capper-Volstead Act

n.d.

14

1-8

NFO County Progress Reporter

1973-1978

15

1

NFO County Progress Reporter

1979

15

2

News, Features, Outlooks

1970

15

3

News, Facts, Outlooks

1987-1990

15

4

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requested documents

1974

15

5

Early images (circa 1950s-1960s) - hogs, milk, offices, people (11- b/w slides)

2000

15

6-12

NFO Reporter

1971-1973

16

1-6

NFO Reporter

1974-1977

16

7-8

NFO Reporter

1979-1980

16

9

Carl Wilken: interview transcript and articles

1966-1968, n.d.

Map case

C406 D08

Photograph: Annual Convention, Louisville, Kentucky (1- 10x38" b/w)

1969