Alberta Farmers' Association

In January 1909 it merged with the Canadian Society of Equity to form the United Farmers of Alberta.

There was a bumper crop that year, and farmers found they could not get their produce to market because the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the grain companies were still failing to conform to the act.

[7] The government, itself short of money, could not always provide the assistance the new farmers expected in bad periods, so the AFA and CSE were seen as a source of strength and safety.

Their main ideological difference was that the CSE wanted to maintain "equity", or economic equality, by its members refusing to sell below a certain price.

[10] In September 1908 the AFA and CSE formed a joint committee to draft a constitution for a combined organization.

Its goal was to further the interests of producers of grain and livestock and to obtain profitable prices for all of the products of farm and orchard through cooperative effort.