CGB has been an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries since 1970, when it began modestly in a small office in St. Louis, Missouri with 3 employees. Today, CGB operates a global enterprise in more than 70 locations with over 1200 employees, overseeing a diverse family of businesses.The company provides an array of services for grain farmers, from financing and risk management to buying, storing, selling and shipping of the crop. CGB continues to be one of the largest shippers of grain on the inland river system.. The company’s entrepreneurial approach has thrived over 40 years as CGB has expanded in many new directions. Natural extensions have included the addition of soybean processing and fertilizer products.

Talk about multi-tasking. The Tennessee Farmers Cooperative (TFC) keeps the cows fat, the bugs away, and the tractors running. Through a system of local co-ops, TFC supplies agricultural necessities, such as animal-health products, feed, fertilizer, outdoor power equipment, seeds, and tires, to some 70,000 Tennessee farmers. TFC's services include finance, credit, public relations, and risk management. It operates about 150 retail outlets, located in more than 80 of Tennessee's 95 counties. The outlets are open to the public, as well as co-op members. TFC partners with Averitt Dedicated Logistics to provide reduced-cost distribution and transportation services to co-op members. TFC was chartered in 1945.

Barkley Seed has sowing possibilities. The firm supplies grain seeds, mainly wheat and barley. Its seed varieties are adapted to five growing regions in the US -- the Central Plains, East, Northern Plains, Northwest, and Southwest -- depending on customer location. Choosing not to sell on the retail market, Barkley focuses on the research and development of identity-preserved seed varieties (those that maintain their genetic makeup). R&D is largely funded through royalties, which are generated from seed sales to licensed growers. Barkley licenses growers nationwide and operates facilities in Arizona and California. In 2009 it sold WestBred, its indirectly owned wheat germplasm unit, to biotech giant Monsanto.

Naturipe Farms LLC is one of the world's largest suppliers of fresh bushberries. It provides retail food outlets with a year-round selection of conventional, organic, and premium blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries, and strawberries. It also offers seasonal produce, such as Bing cherries, gooseberries and red currants. Naturipe's growers are located in Argentina, Chili, Mexico, Canada, and the US. Naturipe Farms company markets its produce throughout Europe and the US, as well as in Asia. Its berries are sold under the Naturipe Farms and Naturipe Farms Gold Label brand names.

Make no bones about it, HKScan is one of Finland's top market leaders in meat and poultry products. It is also one of the major players in Sweden, Poland, and the Baltic region (Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia). The company, also exports worldwide, produces pork, beef, and poultry (chicken and turkey) meat, processed meats, sausages, and convenience foods. In addition to its own brands, the company owns stakes in companies that are market leaders in their countries. HKScan has a joint venture with Denmark-based Danish Crown, which controls the Polish meat company Sokolw.

Lance, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, manufactures and markets snack foods throughout much of the United States and other parts of North America. Its products include sandwich crackers and cookies, potato chips, crackers, cookies, other snacks, sugar wafers, nuts, restaurant style crackers and candy. Lance has manufacturing facilities in North Carolina, Iowa, Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Ontario, Canada. Products are sold under the Lance®, Cape Cod®, Tom’s®, Archway® and Stella D’oro® brand names along with a number of private label and third-party brands. Lance distributes its products through its direct-store-delivery system, a network of independent distributors and direct shipments to customer locations. Products are distributed widely through grocery and mass merchant stores, convenience stores, club stores, food service outlets and other channels.Lance also produces Private Label Cookies and Crackers for major retailers across many classes of trade. These products span all three tiers of product quality - Value, Mainstream (National Brand Equivalent) and Premium. The Lance Private Brand product line includes Sandwich Crème Cookies, Traditional Crisp Cookies, Saltine Crackers and Snack Crackers.

The cookie may crumble but at Burton's Foods what remains is income. The company is one of the largest sweet biscuit companies in the UK. Burton's makes such childhood favorites as Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels. Its other brand names include Viscount and Maryland (another favorite in the UK). Burton's also offers private-label biscuits, confectionery, and snack foods. Its products are available in Europe and North America. The company was founded in 2001 as the result of the merger of Burton's Gold Medal Biscuits and Horizon Biscuits Company. Burton's is owned by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Apollo Management.

Distell Group Limited is South Africa’s leading producer and marketer of fine wines, spirits, ciders and ready-to-drinks (RTDs). The Group is listed on JSE Limited. Distell employs over 4 200 people and has an annual turnover in excess of R7.9 billion.Distell was created in 2000 by the merger of Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery (SFW) and Distillers Corporation.SFW has long been a major force in the wine industry in South Africa. This company was the brainchild of William Charles Winshaw, an American medical doctor who came to South Africa in 1900 at the time of the Anglo Boer War. In 1925, SFW was created with Winshaw remaining as the MD of the organisation until 1962 when, at the age of 92, he retired. SFW, as the name implies, excelled at producing quality wines for the full spectrum of consumer needs. This company was also instrumental in the creation of a major new segment in our alcoholic beverage industry - ciders or alcoholic fruit beverages as we know them. One of the company's key strengths has always been innovation.

Ellen Straus, matriarch of a pioneering organic dairy family and co-founder of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), America's first agricultural land trust, died at her home in Marshall, Calif. on November 30. She was 75. Few have done more to preserve the land and culture of western Marin County (San Francisco Bay Area), where she settled to start a family in 1950. She will be particularly remembered by fellow farmers and environmentalists as a determined optimist who brought opposing parties together to protect and revitalize the region's agricultural greenbelt.Ellen Tirza Lotte Prins was born February 21, 1927 in Amsterdam Holland. In February 1940, Ellen and her family fled to New York, just ahead of the Nazi invasion.

Jamaica Producers Group is all things banana. It grows 'em, ripens 'em, packages 'em, and even bottles 'em. (And yes, it owns "banana boats.") The company's products include fresh bananas, banana snacks, and banana-flavored (and other fruit-flavored) juices, all under the Sunjuice label. Its foods group process the fresh produce and makes dried-fruit snack products. The company's produce is exported from its approximately 3,900 acres of Jamaican farmland to customers in the UK, the European continent, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic through its shipping company (the one with the boats; although, really, we should refer to them as state-of-the-art ocean-going steamships).

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