The Farmers and Ranchers Midwest Political Action Committee (Farm Pac), a bi-partisan farmers' political action committee, was formed in 1978. Based in Des Moines, Iowa, the organization was dedicated to serving farmers across the Midwest and supported free enterprise, the market system, elimination of monopolistic practices of labor and business, limiting the role of government, and strengthening the family farm. Its primary activity was to raise money for candidates the organization supported. In 1979, its name changed from Farm Pac to Agri-Pac. Agri-Pac went out of existence in 1986. The collection contains meeting minutes and notes, correspondence, brochures, a treasurer's report, an officer and member list, voting records and candidates for general elections. The collection only contains documents from the first few years of Agri-Pac's existence, and nothing from when it ended in 1986.

On May 30, 1978 the Farmers and Ranchers Midwest Political Action Committee (Farm Pac), a bi-partisan farmers political action committee, was formed. Based in Des Moines, Iowa, the organization was dedicated to serving farmers across the Midwest. In 1979, its name changed from Farm Pac to Agri-Pac because another state had registered Farm Pac as its logo. The organization decided to become a PAC (political action committee) in order to have funding to support candidates they believed would contribute to a more responsible government, as well as to gain political influence.

Farm Pac supported free enterprise, the market system, elimination of monopolistic practices of labor and business, limiting the role of government, and strengthening the family farm. According to the organization's constitution and by-laws, it was a voluntary, non-profit, unincorporated organization of individual farmers and other interested members. As its constitution and by-laws state, Agri-Pac's purpose was to "protect the value of the dollar at home and abroad, strengthen the private enterprise and market system, eliminate the monopolistic powers and practices of labor and business, limit the role of the government to those functions necessary and proper for government, and to strengthen the family farm in all ways not inconsistent with the above." Agri-Pac's meeting minutes reveal that the organization's main activity was to hold fundraisers for candidates they endorsed. The group also sent mailings endorsing these candidates.

Agri-Pac went out of existence in the summer of 1986.

The collection (1978-1980, undated) contains meeting minutes and notes, correspondence, brochures, a treasurer's report, an officer and member list, voting records and candidates for general elections. The collection only contains documents from the first few years of Agri-Pac's existence, and nothing from when it ended in 1986.

Included in the collection are informational brochures ("Questions and Answers about Agri-Pac", "Questions and Answers about Farm-Pac") about the organizations' purpose, background and history, and how the group is organized, who runs it, and Agri-Pac's support of political candidates.

Also included are the organization's constitution and by-laws as amended in 1979 as well as minutes from the first initial meetings discussing the creation of Agri-Pac. Correspondence to members discusses candidate information and plans for Agri-Pac, and a sheet describing why the organization decided to become a PAC.

The voting records contain lists of legislative candidates as well as candidates for general election in 1980. Also included are the votes (of interest to Agri-Pac) of each member of the House in the 68th General Assembly (1980 session) and congressional voting records from the 96th Congress (1979-1980).

The collection is organized chronologically.