Look down. Candy-colored sails skim the Columbia like swarms of graffittied dragonflies. Look out. Snow-topped volcanic peaks descend into wildflower meadows, merge into evergreen forests, then abruptly stop at vertical basalt cliffs punctuated by pencil-thin waterfalls. Look up. Dry blue skies deliver the scent of ponderosas baking in the summer sun. Sitting on the deck of the brewery here in Hood River on a brilliant August day never ceases to make us eternally grateful for every moment we get to spend in this amazing place. A little town full of blossoming fruit orchards and postcard-quality roadside stands, where every summer a landlocked surf town magically emerges from its winter ski-village cocoon.

At Hornell Brewing (which does business as Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons) image is everything. Colorful, arty bottle and can designs distinguish the company's beverages -- including AriZona iced teas, energy drinks, and fruit drinks -- from the competition. The company's beverages are top sellers in the ready-to-drink iced tea sector in the US. Flavors include Green Tea with Ginseng, Pomegranate Green Tea, and Blueberry White Tea. Its other products include energy and sports drinks, juice, and smoothies. In addition to tea, Hornell Brewing makes and sells malt liquor and beer (Crazy Stallion, Mississippi Mud) and bottled water. Co-founders John Ferolito and Don Vultaggio own and run the company.

BRF - Brasil Foods (formerly Perdig�o) leads pigs and chickens from the farm to the freezer. A top Brazilian provider of fresh and frozen pork and poultry, it owns farms, slaughterhouses, animal-feed factories, incubators, and meat-processing facilities. In addition to chicken, turkey, pork, and some beef, the company has concentrated on offering more value-added processed frozen foods. The company's processed foods, which accounted for half of its 2009 sales, include frozen vegetables, pizza, and desserts, as well as margarine, powdered and fluid milk, soy-based vegetarian products, and pasta-based ready meals. In 2009 the company acquired rival Brazilian meat company Sadia and was renamed BRF - Brasil Foods.

Peachy Canyon is a small family owned winery in beautiful Paso Robles on the Central Coast of California. The winery has been owned and operated by the Beckett Family since 1988. Experience the best the Westside has to offer. Come by and sample our award-winning zinfandels and other acclaimed varietals.Become a member of the "Old School House Wine Club" so you can start saving 30% off today and take home wines you can't get anywhere else. We hope to see you soon!

Depending on what stage of life you're currently inhabiting, you're likely to associate Pepperidge Farm with either "all grown up now" Milan cookies or "yippee" Goldfish crackers -- a staple of most preschoolers' diets -- and, truth be told, lots of adults' workplace desk drawers as well. A subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company, Pepperidge Farm is part of the company's Baking and Snacking segment, which accounts for about a quarter of Campbell's total sales. Products in the Pepperidge Farm line include fresh bread and rolls, cookies, crackers, stuffing mixes, and ready-made croutons, as well as frozen puff pastry.

Founded to provide affordable, high-quality seed for Virginia farmers, Southern States Cooperative has grown into an agricultural powerhouse, serving its approximately 300,000 members, mainly in the mid-Atlantic and southern US states. The co-op makes and/or offers just about everything agricultural to its farmer/owners, including animal feed and fertilizer; seed processing; grain marketing; diesel, propane, and home-heating services; wholesale farm supplies; and even bib overalls. Its Southern States and Garden South stores sell farm supplies, garden products, and fuel through some 1,200 retail outlets in 23 states. Other services include crop financing, crop services, and an aquaculture program.

South Dakota Soybean the agricultural cooperative turns the 30 million bushels per year of soybeans from its 2,200 farmer/members into soybean oil, soybean hulls, and soybean meal. Its soybean meal is mainly sold to livestock feed companies and independent livestock producers. Most of South Dakota Soybean's crude soybean oil is processed into refined and bleached oil under the name Soyol, which is sold to manufacturers of various consumer items (plastics and biodiesel manufacturers, for example), who further process it for use in their products. The co-op owns 91% of Urethane Soy Systems Company (USSC), which it supplies with Soyol products.

Natural Selection Foods took root on a three-acre raspberry farm. Today it's a leading supplier of packaged organic salads to retailers and foodservice operators nationwide. Natural Selection Foods company's more than 100 different products, which also include organic fruits and vegetables, juice, cookies, and granola, are sold in 75% of US grocery stores under the Earthbound Farm brand name. Natural Selection's growers operate some 33,000 certified organic acres in the US (Arizona, California, Colorado, and Washington), Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand. In 2006 the California company recalled its fresh spinach and salad mixes containing spinach, which were the subject of an FDA nationwide recall due to an outbreak of E. coli.

Foyle Food Group is focused on only one food group in particular -- meat. And really only on beef and lamb, to be precise. The company was formed in a roll-up and now consists of Foyle Meats, Omagh Meats, Donegal Meat Processors, Foyle Proteins, and Hilton Meats Cookstown. It operates five production facilities in Northern Ireland and the UK, where it produces fresh, frozen, and processed beef and lamb products. Foyle's subsidiaries supply retailers and foodservice operators with its branded and private-label products. It has operations in Europe and China. Tesco , Ahold, and McDonalds are among Foyle's customers.

Setton International Foods, Inc., based in Commack, New York, is a full service provider of nuts, dried fruit, edible seed, chocolate and yogurt panned items and candies to the snack industry. We currently carry over 1,000 products, some of which are imported from over twenty countries. Setton offers a variety of consumer and bulk packaging for its customers as well as custom packaging options. Setton Pistachio based in Terra Bella, California is the second largest pistachio processor in the United States. We export our premium California pistachios to over thirty foreign markets. Our many years of experience allow us to react daily to changing market conditions, enabling us to maximize returns to our pistachio growers and provide competitive pricing to our customers. Setton Farms is our premium brand, as well as the corporate identity of our numerous pistachio orchards. You might say this company is nuts about pistachios. A leading producer of nuts, edible seeds, and other snacks, Setton International Foods is one of the largest pistachio processors in the US, with more than 5,000 acres of orchards it either owns or farms. The company sells pistachios and more than 1,000 other snack products (candies, chocolate-covered nuts and fruits, dried fruits) to retail customers under the Setton Farms brand; it also supplies goods to customers in the food manufacturing industry. Joshua and Morris Setton founded the family-owned business in 1971.

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