Going with the grain, Wheeler Brothers Grain Company operates beef cattle feedlots and grain elevators in Oklahoma. The company offers agronomy services and has certified crop consultants who offer advice regarding the development of production strategies. Traditionally, Oklahoma wheat had been marketed domestically or shipped through the Texas Gulf for export. However, in the wake of the implementation of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), Wheeler Brothers Grain became one of the first Oklahoma grain companies to ship grain directly (by rail) to millers in Mexico in 2000. The company was founded in 1917.

Ovations Food Services, L.P. was founded in 1996 and is based in Lutz, Florida. Ovations Food Services, L.P. operates as a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Ovations Food Services, L.P. operates as a food service contractor. It provides professional food, beverage, and related services to sports and recreational facilities in North America. Ovations Food Services company specializes in serving sit-down dinners, company picnics, family birthday parties, and private moonlit dinners. Ovations also offers professional, multi-disciplined, and merchandise management services. Its clients include convention and exposition centers, fairs and entertainment centers, and sports centers.

CoolBrands International Inc closed or sold off nearly all of its operating units, which included such popular product brands as Eskimo Pie, Godiva, and Yoplait. It also operated and franchised retail outlets under the banners I Can't Believe It's Yogurt, Tropicana Smoothies, and Yogen Fr�z. CoolBrands is looking to invest in new business opportunities. The families of chairman Michael Serruya and former co-chairman Richard Smith control the company.

Whether it's over the field or the dale, Fieldale Farms Corporation brings its poultry to consumers. The poultry processing company produces fresh, frozen, chicken, including skinless or skin on, value-added, pre-cooked, marinated chickens and chicken parts for sale in the US. It also ships internationally to more than 50 countries. The company offers private-label chicken products, along with its namesake Fieldale Farms brand, for foodservice and retail food customers. Located in Baldwin, Georgia, the Fieldale Farms Corporation is a family-owned and -operated company.

Whether it's Barky, Bessie, Bossy, or Boots who's in need of medical attention, the folks at IVESCO (formerly Iowa Veterinary Supply) will get the correct supplies to his or her vet. The company distributes more than 25,000 products, for companion animals and livestock, including veterinary equipment and supplies, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. It operates through six divisions -- IVESCO, IVS Animal Health, WYNCO, Panhandle Veterinary Supply, Scholfield Veterinary Supply, and VMS -- with about 25 locations in some 20 US states. Iowa Veterinary Supply was founded in 1945; president Tom Kruse acquired the company with partner Ken Madole (who retired in the 1980s) in 1966.

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.

American Seeds, LLC is a holding company established to support regional seed businesses with capital, genetics and technology investments. These investments will allow the operating companies of American Seeds to more directly connect their customers to significant innovations in genomics-based breeding and other new technologies while continuing to operate autonomously and locally, providing great services to their customers and building the value of their brands. American Seeds is a wholly owned subsidiary, reporting into Monsanto's U.S. Crop Production business along with the company's existing branded and licensing businesses.

Nestle Waters North America (NWNA), finding a drink of water today is a lot easier. The company started off selling Perrier Sparkling Mineral Water in the US and Canada during the 1970s, but today NWNA offers a broad portfolio of regional water brands, including Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Great Bear, Ice Mountain, Ozarka, Poland Spring, and Zephyrhills. And that's just US water. It also sells Acqua Panna and S.Pellegrino from Italy, as well as Contrex and its old standby, Perrier, from France. NWNA is a subsidiary of Nestl� Waters.

Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, our privately held company employs 138,000 people in 67 countries. Cargill may be private, but it's highly visible. The agribusiness giant, the US's largest private corporation, has operations in 70 countries. It has five main business segments -- Agriculture Services (customized farm services and products); Food Ingredients and Applications (food and beverage ingredients, and meat and poultry products); Industrial, Origination and Processing (commodity origination, processing, marketing and distribution); and Risk Management and Financial (risk management and financial solutions); and Industrial (salt, steel, and fertilizer). Cargill's customers include food, beverage, industrial, pharmaceutical, and personal care product makers, as well as farmers and foodservice providers.

F.C.F. Fishery is gettin' jiggy with it! One of the largest marine product trading companies in Taiwan, F.C.F. Fishery is involved in squid jigging (a fishing method that uses weighted hooks that are jerked up and down in order to attract fish) in the North Pacific Ocean and the waters off New Zealand. Additionally, it procures and markets fresh and frozen swordfish, shark, tuna, other miscellaneous food fish. F.C.F.operates fishing bases in Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. Its catches are exported worldwide.

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