Originally founded in 1895 by John C. Clemens, The Clemens Family Corporation continues to operate as a corporation deeply rooted in values. Since its beginnings, the corporation’s values have been its strength. These values can be seen in the quality products and services offered by each company within the corporation.While not forgetting where it came from, The Clemens Family Corporation continues to look ahead by operating as a good steward of the community and the environment while offering innovative products and services to its valuable customers.

Clougherty Packing processes pork products, including fresh-cut pork, prepared bacon, sausages, and boneless and bone-in cooked ham. The company distributes its meat to retailers under the Farmer John brand name. It is a sponsor for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers and makes the hot dogs long-time baseball fans know as Dodger Dogs. The company's Web site offers recipes and cooking and serving tips featuring Clougherty products. Founded by the Clougherty family in 1931, the company was purchased by Hormel Foods in 2004.

Since 1875 Coleman has pioneered the natural and organic animal raising practices that represent the highest standard of meat production in the United States. We work exclusively with small family farms throughout the country that share this conviction to provide American families with premium natural and organic meat, poultry, and prepared foods.

Cooper Farms' poultry products fly far from the coop. The company raises turkeys (180 million pounds of live bird per year) on its Ohio farm and supplies pre-cooked (oven-roasted, smoked, and cured breasts and deli meats) and ready-to-cook turkey products to retail and foodservice customers in the US and Mexico. Cooper Farms also provides private-label packaging services for other food manufacturers. Additional items produced by the company include eggs (400 million a year), weaned pigs (90 million live pounds per year), poults (baby turkeys) (14 million per year), and animal feed (400,000 tons per year). Cooper makes feed for diary and beef cattle, as well as for swine.

You might say Copacol's business is fowl. The cooperative is one of Brazil's leading poultry slaughterers and processors, consisting of more than 4,360 members, a majority of whom are small farmers. Combined, the cooperative's daily chicken slaughter capacity is about 330,000 birds, from which it processes and sells refrigerated and frozen whole chickens and chicken parts, both domestically and internationally. The company also sells processed fish, beef, pork, and other products. Copacol was established in 1963 by Father Louise Luise and 32 farmers, and today runs nearly two dozen plants in Nova Aurora, Formosa do Oeste, Jesuitas, and Iracema do Oeste.

Cranswick was formed by farmers in the early 1970's to produce pig feed. In 1988 the Board embarked on a strategy to broaden the base of the Company's activities and to seek opportunities to develop into related areas offering greater scope to add value to the Company's processes. Activities have since been extended from this agricultural base into the food sector.The business is focused predominantly on the supply of fresh and processed food to the UK food retail, food manufacturing and food service categories.

They may not know why the chicken crossed the road but the folks at Crider apparently have figured out how to get them to climb inside its cans. The company is a leading chicken canner in the US and makes a number of fresh and fully-cooked chicken offerings. It also cans turkey, beef, and ham. Crider's products are supplied to food retailers, including club stores nationwide under branded and private-labels. The Georgia company was founded in 1944 by Ahtee and Emma Lou Crider and is still owned and operated by the founders' descendants.

Family-owned Culver Duck Farms knows the trick to smoking ducks is keeping those eggs lit. The vertically-integrated company hatches close to 3.5 million ducks every year, then processes them into fresh and frozen whole ducks, fillets, sausage, smoked or marinated breasts, and even duck sticks (think jerky). The company also produces chicken products, and barbecue sauces and rubs. Using every bit of their birds, the company also makes soaps from duck oil. Dating back to 1858, Culver Duck Farms sells its products to specialty retailers, the foodservice industry, restaurants, and directly to consumers through its Web site.

You might say this company has a steak in the organic meat business. Dakota Beef is a leading supplier of organic beef and beef products that are free of antibiotics and growth hormones. It sources its beef from certified organic producers and operates a 33,000-square-foot, certified-organic processing plant capable of handling more than 100 head of cattle each day. The company supplies cuts of meat and ground beef to food wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers including Costco and Whole Foods Market. It also sells beef online to individual consumers. CEO Scott Lively founded the company in 2003.

Danish pig farmers have found that it pays to cooperate. With some 12,000 members, Danish Crown AmbA cooperative owns the Danish Crown Group of meat processing businesses. About half of the group's sales come from pork; beef accounts for only about 6%. With a substantial number of pig and beef slaughterhouses and cutting plants, Danish Crown's subsidiaries produce fresh and processed pork and beef products in Europe, the UK, and the US. The company has both retail and industrial customers. Danish Crown's products are available worldwide. Its foreign subsidiaries include meat processors Tulip Ltd. and Geo Adams & Sons in the UK and US-based Plumrose.

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