KRS 272.111: Association -- Purposes.

An association may be organized to engage in any activity in connection with the

production, harvesting, marketing, selling, preserving, drying, processing, canning,

packing, grading, storing, handling, shipping or utilization of the agricultural products

owned, leased, handled or marketed by its members and other farmers, with the

manufacture or marketing of the by -products thereof, in connection with the

manufacturing, selling, or supplying to its members and other farmers of machinery,

equipment or supplies, in the financing of the above -enumerated activities, in performing

or furnishing services of economic or educational nature, on a cooperative basis for those

engaged in agriculture, or in any one or more of the activities specified herein.