Staple Cotton Cooperative Association was formed in 1921 in response to a major problem facing Mississippi Delta cotton producers: the chaotic system by which their crops were marketed. Known today as Staplcotn, the organization is the oldest as well as one of the largest cotton marketing cooperatives in the United States. Our mission is to enhance our members' incomes by providing cost-effective marketing, warehousing, financing and other authorized services in a manner that fosters their trust and confidence in the cooperative and meets exemplary standards of business and personal conduct. For more information on Staplcotn's history, please visit the Timeline (PDF) and 75 year history sections of this website. Staplcotn considers our producers as our most important assets. Along with Stapldiscount, we provide a range of services to our members including domestic and export marketing, cotton warehousing and agricultural financing. The Mill Sales Program offers a flexible range of options for Mid-South and Southeastern cotton producers to market their crop. Staplcotn and Stapldiscount seek to provide a cost effective, high return program for all members.

Stewart & Jasper Orchards (S&J) shakes trees, bringing down nutty treasures. The company is a California nut and fruit grower and operates a state-of-the-art nut-hulling, -shelling, -processing, and -packing facility. In addition to bulk almonds and walnuts, it offers packaged foods such as chocolate-covered nuts, dried fruit, fruit preserves, and nut butters. S&J also grows and packs stone fruits, including peaches, nectarines, pluots, plumcots, and apricots, which are marketed under the Suprema Brand and J.J.'s Jackpot labels. While its 500 acres yield 2 to 3 million pounds of marketable products a year, S&J also contracts with local growers to meet customer demand. The company ships its products worldwide.

Stewart Grain acts as a steward of grain collection, processing, and marketing for midwestern US farmers. The family-owned company processes and sells at wholesale prices corn, beans, and wheat from four grain elevator locations in Illinois and Indiana. Its facilities have the capacity to handle more than a million bushels of grain, and it has access to three local railroads, which transport harvested grain to and from the elevators. Stewart Grain was founded in 1922 by Bert Etchison (with original partners Joe Weaver and A.J. Miller). His grandson, Burton Etchison, has been the company's president and CEO since 1982.

How sweet it is. The Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida (SCGC) is a 54-member sugar farmers' cooperative that offers its members help with farms administration and offers agricultural and planting advice, as well as , harvesting, processing, and marketing operations for their more than 70,000 acres of sugarcane. The cooperative's member/growers produce more than 350,000 tons of raw cane sugar every year. SCGC is a joint-owner of American Sugar Refining (along with Florida Crystals), a top New York refiner that owns Domino Foods, producer of Domino branded sugar products.

As the largest producer of peat moss in North America, Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund supplies everything but the sun to help plants grow. The company produces and distributes peat moss, peat-based and bark-based growing mixes, fertilizers, and agricultural minerals for commercial growers and home gardeners under various brand names including Sunshine, Nature's, Lakeland, and Black Gold. It also produces private- label growing mixes for large home and garden retailers such as Wal-Mart, Lowe's, and Home Depot. Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund operates through Sun Gro Horticulture Canada and subsidiary businesses.

Sun World was established in early 1­976 as a packer and marketer of fresh fruits and vegetables. In the 1980s, consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables was on the rise and consumers were increasingly seeking better tasting, more conveniently available produce. As the market changed, so did Sun World. The Company exited the commodity fruit and vegetable business and became involved in the farming, packing and marketing of an extensive collection of specialty-branded produce.Sun World initiated a series of relationships with various research and academic organizations around the world, setting out on its quest to improve the flavor, color, texture and overall quality of specific fruits and vegetables.

Perhaps the US company least susceptible to an outbreak of scurvy among its employees, Sunkist Growers is an agricultural cooperative owned by California and Arizona citrus growers who farm some 300,000 acres. Sunkist offers traditional and organic fresh oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, and tangerines worldwide. The company also makes cut fruit in jars and juice. Fruit that doesn't meet fresh market standards is turned into juices, oils, and peels for use in food products made by other manufactures. Its customers include food retailers and manufacturers and foodservice operators.

This company, run by the Mixon family, uses sunshine as a key ingredient to produce bounteous crops of fresh berries. It operates 1,125 acres in three southern states and Mexico. Blueberries account for 70% of sales, while blackberries bring in 20%, and raspberries, the remaining 10%. In addition to its own fields, the Mixons operate a marketing company, called SunnyRidge Farm, to sell fruit. The operation is made up of 125 independent growers in Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina, California, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico. Together, the SunnyRidge farmers market some 40 million pounds of berries a year. In 2008 the company expanded its offerings to include strawberries.

The folks at Sunrise Growers are up long before the sun rises, hand-picking fresh strawberries from the fields. The company, which also raises, processes, and supplies fresh red bell peppers, markets and ships its produce throughout the US, as well as to Pacific Rim countries. Sunrise serves customers in the retail food, food manufacturing, and foodservice industries. The company's sister business, Frozsun Foods, processes part of Sunrise's crop, some of which it combines with other fruits, into frozen packs, toppings, purees, juicestock, and other beverage bases.

Over sixty years ago, Marko Zaninovich established Sunview's roots. Today Sunview is one of California's largest family-owned and operated table grape vineyards. Premium quality is our foremost goal. We believe the only way to assure this level of quality is through close personal supervision and attention to every detail from growing through packing and shipping. Decades of practical experience coupled with technological sophistication have enabled us to produce the quality often associated with small family run businesses. Sunview combines consistent quality with the volume required to meet the needs of buyers, both large and small.Every stage of this family operation is built and managed with one goal in mind...premium quality. Our people understand that our first priority is quality. Sales of Sunview grapes begin near the end of June and continue through mid-January with a variety spread that includes Flame Seedless, Thompson Seedless, Black Seedless, Ruby Seedless, Crimson Seedless, Sunset Seedless, Red Globe and Organic Varieties. We also ship fresh Hachiya-Persimmons and Moyer Prune Plums.

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