Holly Sugar Corporation, Howard Edwards and Robert Strecker, Cross-Appellants v. Goshen County Cooperative Beet Growers Association, Cross-Appellee

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

We are asked to decide whether the trial court properly enjoined the efforts of a sugar beet grower’s association to keep its members from individually contracting with a purchaser of sugar beets by threatening to take legal action to enforce the terms of a marketing agreement between the association and the individual growers.

The association represents approximately 230 sugar beet growers near Goshen County, Wyoming. For many years the association has negotiated contracts with the local purchaser of the beets, a sugar manufacturer. As usual, the association and the…