Excerpts from the report: Increased interest on the part of farm groups in several States in exploring the possibilities of the meat processing field has become manifest within the past year. Numerous inquiries have been received by the Livestock and Wool Section and in a few localities fairly definite plans are now being worked out to establish processing facilities as soon as war conditions permit. Because of the high percentage of failures in earlier attempts on the part of farmers to organize and operate meat packing plants, the American Farm Bureau Federation requested the Cooperative Research and Service Division to make a study of these operations and prepare a short summary for the use of the Livestock Committee of 15.