After the Alberta United Farmers government was defeated the group withrdrew from electoral politics with many of its supporters joining the Social Credit party.
United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan Section) was founded in 1926 by members of the Farmers' Union of Canada and the Saskatchwan Grain Growers' Association.
As a result of the Dust Bowl farm crisis during the Great Depression the UFC (SS) became politicised and adopted a socialist platform. In 1932 it joined the Independent Labour Party in the province to form the Farmer-Labour Group which, in 1934, became the Saskatchewan section of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.