Friona Industries, L. P. began as single small feedyard in 1962 and has progressed to become one of the leading cattle feeding businesses in the world. The Friona of today has four state of the art commercial cattle feeding facilities with one time capacity of 275,000 head, which form the base of a vertically aligned production system that creates a consistent, reliable, safe, tender and flavorful fresh branded product line that is marketed in 2300 of the top retail stores in the U.S. Our experience in creating the facilitative link between the cow/calf sector and the eventual end-user at the retail level, has put our employees and our company in a unusual, information-based position as a facilitator of innovation and excellence in the beef industry. Our mission statement communicates our belief that creating a valuable and popular consumer beef product creates the cornerstone of an informed, communicative, and responsive beef industry that can bring value and profitability to all segments and all participants.

Founded in 1992, Frontera Produce is a progressive leader in the fresh produce industry focusing on the changing needs of our customer base. Headquartered in Edinburg, Texas, our diverse growing operations allow us the ease and flexibility of meeting volume, seasonal, regional, and custom packaging requests. After 18 years of evolving our business to exceed our customer's needs, we currently offer a year-round solution of fresh products from all major United States growing areas as well as Mexico, Central and South America.

Frontier is the UK's leading crop inputs and grain marketing business, recognised for its close customer relationships with farmers and grain consumers and its successful management of the whole arable supply chain.Frontier is owned by its parent companies, ABF Holdings and Cargill PLC, two of the most financially secure businesses in the marketplace. Sister companies of both parents include AB Agri, Allied Mills, Allied Bakeries, Cargill Grain & Oilseeds, Sun Valley Foods and British Sugar. Frontier gives farmers the chance to look to the future for new market opportunities whilst offering them the certainty that comes from dealing with a well-established, financially secure business.

The FGN Group is a leader in plant genetic research and development for global biofuel, forestry and agricultural markets. The Group was formed by the merge of FGN Plc with CBD Technologies and has integrated the abiotic stress platform with the yield enhancement and processability technology from these entities into a powerful new package for the enhancement of biofuel, forestry and agricultural crops. It collaborates with renowned institutional partners worldwide and has thus been able to take an innovative and multi-faceted approach to significantly improve agronomic traits of value in plants. The FGN Group has strategic agreements with leading commercial companies in the forestry and agricultural sectors around the world and continues to actively partner its technologies. The Group has a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio that addresses environmental stresses in plants such as salinity, drought, cold, and heat and protects its developments on the modification of plant cell walls to enhance plant growth rates, yield and processability of plant fiber. FuturaGene technologies, by allowing plants to grow on marginal lands and to produce more usable fiber for industry, are a major contributor to ensuring food security and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture, forest product and biofuel production.

Genus is a world leader in applying science to animal breeding.Genus creates advances to animal breeding through biotechnology and sells added value products for livestock farming and food producers. Its non-genetically modified organism technology is applicable across all livestock species but is only commercialised by Genus in the bovine and porcine farming sectors.Genus’ worldwide sales are made under the trade marks “ABS” (dairy and beef cattle) and “PIC” (pigs) and comprise semen and breeding animals with superior genetics to those animals currently in production. Genus’ current products and services enable producers and farmers to enhance milk and meat quality and improve efficiency through the application of natural genetic selection. Customers’ animals produce offspring with greater production efficiency, milk and meat output and quality and use these to supply the global dairy and meat supply chain of farmers, breeders, processors, distributors, retailers and consumers.The Group’s competitive edge has been created from the ownership and control of proprietary lines of breeding animals, the biotechnology used to improve them and its global production and distribution network.

Onions might make people cry, but at Gills Onions they smile right through their tears. The company is one of the world's largest fresh onion processors that makes packaged products for the retail and foodservice markets. Its products include diced, sliced, slivered, and pureed red and yellow onions. Its packaged goods are sold through grocery outlets under the Gills Onions brand. The onion grower, formed by the Gill family in 1983, offers bulk products for foodservice customers and food manufacturers. In 2010 Gills Onions was awarded a Green California Leadership Award for helping to pilot an Advanced Energy Recovery System that transforms some 300,000 pounds of onion peels each day into biogas.

Gold Digger Apples provides fruits in an array of colors, including gold, but its produce isn't dug up from the ground. Rather, it's picked from trees and bushes. In addition to apples, the company packs and ships cherries, nectarines, peaches, pluots, and pears to US and foreign foodservice operators, retail food outlets, and food wholesalers. Gold Digger grows such apple varieties as Braeburn, Jonagold, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious, which are custom packaged in tray packs, bags, loose bushels, and gift boxes. The company also owns Okanogan Estate & Vineyards.

For Gold-Eagle Cooperative, service to its member/farmers is the golden rule. The firm is a member-owned agricultural co-op located in north central Iowa. It offers its members grain drying, custom crop spraying, feed, seed, fertilizer, and other bulk and packaged farm chemicals, storage and warehousing, as well as feed milling and marketing. The co-op runs a transportation fleet of grain-hoppers, feed-bottle trucks, and specialty trailers that take members' crops to and from its facilities. Gold-Eagle operates nine grain elevator/service center locations.

Got some hungry cattle? Tell 'em to loosen their golden belts and hit the feedlot. Golden Belt Feeders operates four cattle feedlots and markets more than 125,000 head of fattened cattle per year in the Arkansas River Valley of Kansas. The company raises its own cattle as well as offering custom cattle-feeding for other ranchers. Golden Belt takes care of the feeding, nutrition, and health of the animals it fattens for market. In addition it offers risk-management and financing services. Golden Belt Feeders was founded by owners Merlin and Nelva Grimes in 1968.

Golden West Nuts is a grower-processor of California almonds. Golden West owns several almond ranches and also processes almonds from growers throughout California. Established in 1983, our processing facilities are located in Ripon, California. Our retail outlet, The Harvest Shop, is located in Chico, California. Our facilities are equipped with state-of-art processing equipment and utilize industry approved field-to-market quality control procedures.

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