Where's the beef? It's in Argentina -- at Cresud, one of Argentina's largest agricultural companies. It raises beef and dairy cattle and cultivates grains, including corn, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat. Cresud, an agricultural REIT (real estate investment trust), is also one of Argentina's largest landowners (some 330,000 hectares). In addition, the company farms and ranches on leased lands. Cresud is in partnership with Tyson Foods and Cactus Feeders of Texas to raise cattle in feedlots. It also has a 70% holding in the agricultural Web portal, fyo.com.

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.

Monterey Gourmet Foods, Inc. was founded in 1989. Monterey Gourmet Foods, Inc. manufactures and markets gourmet foods. It offers pastas, sauces, dips, spread able cheeses, semi-hard cheeses, prepared entrees, frozen entrees, sausages, tamales, organic dips, and organic salsas; creamy dips, pestos, soft spreadable cheeses, tapenades and toppings, tuscan bean spreads, pestos, soft spreadable cheeses, tapenades, and bruschetta toppings; salsas, hummus, and bean dips; and pasta salads and bread crumbs. Monterey Gourmet Foods company offers its products through retail supermarkets, club stores, specialty food stores, and distributors in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

Arrowac Fisheries uses more advanced techniques than spear-fishing to bring in its catch. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. harvests, buys, processes, and markets fresh and frozen seafood products under the Arrow, Merco, and Ocean Dawn brands. Products include herring, salmon, sardines, sea bass, flounder, crab, shrimp, and shark meat. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. Merco Intertrade division provides international marketing services. Arrowac's fishing and processing operations are located along the Pacific coasts of Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. is owned by president Frank Mercker, who founded Arrowac in the 1970s.

Bunge Limited grinds it out. The company is a leading global soy and other oilseed processor, a leading South American fertilizer maker and provider, and, through subsidiary Bunge North America, a major US food and food ingredient processor. Its joint venture with DuPont (Solae), of which Bunge owns 28%, makes soy-based food ingredients. Bunge also processes canola seed, sunflower seed, wheat, and corn. Its fertilizer operations take place mainly through its interest in Brazil-based Fosfertil. The operation involves all stages of production, from the mining of phosphate-based raw materials to the selling of blended fertilizers.

yffes plc is an Ireland-based company. Fyffes Company is a marketer and distributor of tropical produce globally. It operates in two operating divisions: tropical produce activities and property activities. The property activities comprise 40% investment in Blackrock International Land plc (Blackrock). The tropical produce division is an integrated distributor of tropical fresh produce, comprising bananas, pineapples and winter season melons. The activities include the production, procurement, shipping, ripening, distribution and marketing of these products. Fyffes Company’s subsidiaries include Banana Importers of Ireland Limited, Bernard Dempsey & Co Limited, Brinton Investments Limited, Elders & Fyffes Investments, FHBV Investment Company, Fyffes Bananas North America Limited, Fyffes Fruit Procurement Limited, Fyffes Banana Processing Limited, Fyffes Personnel Services Limited, Fyffes Secretarial Services Limited and Fyffes Investment Holdings.

Founded in 1952, Sun Orchard Fruit is owned and operated by the Riessen family. Sun Orchard Fruit Company, Inc. Company Profile Sun Orchard Fruit doesn't grow any fruit. Instead, it gets fruit where it needs to go. Sun Orchard Fruit Company stores, packages, and delivers apples grown by New York farmers. It fresh-packs some 500,000 cartons of apples harvested by 60 growers in central and western New York and ships them to food wholesalers and retailers around the globe. Sun Orchard Fruit Company handles 17 of the the most popular Eastern varieties of eating apples including Gala, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, and Empire.

Par-Way Group manufactures edible oils in aerosol cans and spray bottles. Par-Way Group company, which operates as the Par-Way Tryson Company, serves the bakery and foodservice industries. Its products include pan and grill release (Vegalene), bakery release (Bak-klene), flavor, and specialty sprays, as well as Saragosa brand oils in bulk. Par-Way, whose other aerosol brands include Buttery Delite, Garlic Mist, Olive Mist, and Waffle Off, also provides research and development, custom blending, and private-labeling services. Par-Way Group company's products are available worldwide.

National Beef exists to take care of its own flesh and blood. The company is the holding company for National Beef Packing Company, one of the largest beef processing companies in the US. The processor produces a variety of beef products and sells to hundreds of retailers, food service companies, and processed meat product companies; its brands include Black Canyon, Certified Premium Beef, Naturewell, and Imperial Valley Premium Beef. National Beef was formed in 2009 to manage National Beef Packing Company's operations; it had planned to file an initial public offering (IPO) in 2009 but postponed it.

New World Pasta Company manufactures brands such as American Beauty, Ronzoni, San Giorgio, Creamette, Prince, Skinner, a high-fiber pasta called Ronzoni Healthy Harvest, and a whole-grain pasta called Ronzoni Smart Taste. New World Pasta's foodstuffs are sold at retail grocers, wholesale clubs, drug and convenience stores, mass merchandisers, foodservice purveyors, and other food manufacturers in the US and Canada. New World Pasta Company is owned by Spanish food company Ebro Puleva.

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