Local Meetings
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What is submit Local Meeting forms? (or: What are post meeting forms?)
This is the main function of milk marketing cooperatives.
What is provide a guarantee of market and payment to members?
MMPA's five core values. (name at least 3)
What is quality, integrity, progressive, leadership and community?
This group is responsible for the success of the safety culture.
Who is everyone?
The biggest island in the world.
The purpose of this program is to strengthen leadership abilities in young farmers, broaden young farmers’ knowledge of milk marketing and MMPA, and recognize the abilities and stewardship of our young dairy farmers.
What is the OYDC program?
This states: "Cooperatives are controlled by their members who actively participate in setting policies and making decisions.”
What is Cooperative Principle number 2: Democratic Member Control?
This was the first meeting place of MMPA members in 1916.
What is Agriculture Hall at Michigan State College?
This is what OSHA stands for.
What is Occupational Safety & Health Administration?
The number of squares on chess board.
What is 64?
This form is sent to the secretary of each local to fill out at the meeting. There are lines provided for the exact number of Farm Supply credits awarded to each Local (numbers determined by the Local’s farm count). Names should be drawn for the prizes and listed on the form with the corresponding permit number.
What is a Farm Supply Store Gift credit form?
This states: “Cooperatives provide education and training for members, managers, and employees, as well as information to the general public about the benefits of cooperatives and the products and services they provide.”
What is cooperative principle number 5: education, training & information?
The number of people employed by MMPA. (as of June 2019)
What is 301?
(+/- 10 is acceptable)
This accounts for 25 percent of all workplace injuries.
What is overexertion, or injuries caused by lifting, pushing, pulling, holding and carrying?
The largest lake in the world (surface area).
What is the Caspian Sea?
On this document if there is a “Yes” by the person’s name, they can vote at the local meeting and hold an elected office. If there is a “No”, the person can vote at the local meeting, but is not eligible to hold an elected office.
What is the official voter list?
This legislation created an exemption to the Sherman Anti Trust Act, legalizing cooperative entities in 1922.
What is the Capper-Volstead Act?
The weights department scans in every weight sheet, deciphering what haulers record at every farm and dairy. This is the average number of weight sheets are scanned in a month.
What is 8,000?
(+/- 100 is acceptable).
This program explains how to deal with chemicals in the workplace and how they should be labeled so you don't mistake something for a refreshing bottle of water or Mountain Dew.
What is Hazard Communication or GHS?
The first pop made in the U.S. (brand)
What is Vernors Ginger Ale?
•Local dues deduction form
•Meals reimbursement form
•OYDC nominee form
•Local meeting election form
are all this.
What are post local meeting forms?
MMPA members have a financial stake in the cooperative and receive cash patronage refunds every year. This percentage represents the allocation distributed in 2019.
What is 25% of milk marketing earnings and 100% of merchandise earnings?
This cooperative merged with MMPA in the 1980s and included the acquisition of a dairy plant.
What is Constantine Cooperative Creamery?
This program is intended to make sure people do not die in a dangerous environment where there may be dangerous vapors, a lack of air, and/or a location someone enters into with limited mobility or restricted access.
What is a Confined Space Program?
The place where paper was invented.
What is China?