If it seems that Bossie is belching, Porky is pooped, or Mary's little lamb is languishing, ECO Animal Health makes products that can help. The UK company makes and markets generic and patented pharmaceuticals (such as its own Aivlosin brand) for animals, mainly livestock and farm animals. It has operations in Brazil, China, Japan, South Africa, the UK, and the US. About 25% of sales are generated in Europe, with the balance coming from outside markets. Schroder Investment Management and executive chairman Peter Lawrence and his family each own about 20% of the company; Prudential plc owns 15%.

Feeling the need for a citrus organization, a group of citrus growers held their first meeting on June 1,1929. Just a few years later, in 1932, the first official meeting of the Edinburg Citrus Association was held in a school auditorium in Edinburg, Texas.The Edinburg Citrus Association has a grower membership throughout the Rio Grande Valley from the Gulf Coast westward. This loyal membership is the backbone of the company and represents thousands of acres of sweet and juicy Texas Red Grapefruit and Oranges.As the oldest and only surviving citrus fruit cooperative in Texas founded in the 1930s and 1940s, the Edinburg Citrus Association takes its responsibility seriously — both to its grower members and to its customers. Steeped in history but focused on the future, ECA has grown and evolved through the years as one of the leading packinghouses of the Texas Citrus Industry.

Who knew that Arizona provides perfect sunlight for greenhouses? Eurofresh did. The company is a top year-round producer of tomatoes-on-the-vine hydroponic, pesticide-free, greenhouse tomatoes for sale to wholesale distributors and directly to grocery stores. The company's greenhouses cover more than 300 acres in Wilcox and Snowflake, Arizona, and can produce some 200 million pounds of fresh tomatoes a year. Eurofresh grows several tomato varieties, including Beefsteak, Campari, Roma, yellow, grape, and cherry; it also grows and sells cucumbers. The grower's customers include Costco, Wal-Mart, Safeway, and Kroger. In April 2009 it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and emerged in November of that year.

Evergreen FS is an agricultural cooperative serving the needs of northern Illinois farmers. The co-op provides a full range of farm supplies and services including agronomy, feed, seed, fertilizer, fuel, financing, and marketing advice and products. The group also operates a handful of grain elevators as part of its operations. It specializes in the production of corn, soybeans, and wheat. The co-op boasts some 13,000 member/owners that operate businesses on farmland in the counties of McLean, Woodford, and Livingston. Evergreen FS is a member of the GROWMARK system.

French cuisine is an art form, but for Evialis, animal nutrition is all about science. The company's nutrition business develops, manufactures, and distributes feeds for livestock and exotic animals. Its health division develops and manufactures medicinal feed additives, while its premix and specialties business exports feeds and premixes and provides advisory services to other feed manufacturers. In 2008 the company acquired the French feed operations of Cargill. With manufacturing throughout the world, Evialis' products are available worldwide. The company is owned by the French agricultural cooperative, Union InVivo.

When EWOS Canada rings the dinner bell, the fish they come a-swimmin'. The company is the Canadian subsidiary of Oslo, Norway-based Cermaq ASA's giant fish-feed business, the EWOS Group. Established in 1986, EWOS Canada manufactures feed for various fish species at its mill in Surrey, British Columbia, but focuses particularly on controlling the hunger pangs of salmon and trout. Its sister company, Mainstream Canada, operates fish farms, as does EWOS Canada as part of its Pacific Coast operations. The EWOS Group as a whole generated some $914 million in sales during 2008.

Exelixis Plant Sciences operates millions of small solar-powered factories -- i.e., plants. A subsidiary of cancer-drug-development company, Exelixis, Inc., it focuses on plant genomics (identifying plant DNA sequences and identifying specific genes and their functions) in order to produce natural flavors and colorants for food, health and wellness, and cosmetics manufacturers. In addition, the company's gene technology provides improvement in areas such as plant-disease resistance and improved crop yield. Since 2007 it has partnered with Dow AgroSciences to do research focused on the development of new tools for gene discovery and the validation of novel crop traits.

Fane Valley Co-operative Society Ltd. was established in 1903 by a group of farmers who wished to improve the marketing of their butter which at that time was produced on the farm. The group came together and built the original Fane Valley dairy which was located on the banks of the Fane Valley river bordering counties Armagh and Monaghan.Today 106 years later an agricultural store still operates on the original site providing a useful service to farmers in the area. Fane Valley has diversified from a producer of butter to being a leading company within the Irish Agri food sector. The Society now is involved in the processing of milk, red meat, cereals, animal feeds and supplies farm requisites to farmers, and from humble beginnings now has a group turnover in excess of £250m and employs 1500 people throughout Ireland.

Farm Service Cooperative (FSC) offers a big bushel basket full of products and services to farmers in west central Iowa. The agricultural co-op offers its members such farm-management supplies and services as grain elevator operations, grain marketing, equipment rental, tires, livestock feed and fertilizer sales, soil sampling, on-staff crop advisors, farm credit and financing, agronomy, and Cenex energy products (diesel, home-heating oil, propane, ethanol, gasoline) from its 10 locations.

The importance of cooperation -- it's one of life's most important lessons. Dating back to the early 1900s, the Farmers Cooperative Company learned that lesson early on. The 5,200-member co-op offers agronomy and grain marketing services to its members, who oversee some 3 million acres of farmland in central and north central Iowa. It operates 40 grain elevators and provides soil testing, and mapping services. It sells supplies including seed, feed, and fertilizer, to its members. Farmers Cooperative is an acquisitive operation. Since the 1960s it has acquired more than 20 other agricultural co-ops, grain elevators, fertilizer manufacturers, and other farm-related businesses.

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