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.

Evergreen FS is an agricultural cooperative serving the needs of northern Illinois farmers. The co-op provides a full range of farm supplies and services including agronomy, feed, seed, fertilizer, fuel, financing, and marketing advice and products. The group also operates a handful of grain elevators as part of its operations. It specializes in the production of corn, soybeans, and wheat. The co-op boasts some 13,000 member/owners that operate businesses on farmland in the counties of McLean, Woodford, and Livingston. Evergreen FS is a member of the GROWMARK system.

Lion Raisins, Inc. was founded in 1903 by Alex Lion and is still owned by the Lion family. Lion Raisins, Inc. is one of California's largest raisin processors. It grows its own grapes and purchases more from more than 600 other grape growers. Lion's products include seedless and organic raisins, sugar-coated raisins, raisin paste, and raisin juice concentrate. Lion Raisins sun-dries its grapes and then processes them at its facility in Selma, California. Raisins are packaged under the Lion brand or or private-label customers and are shipped to locations throughout the US, as well as to worldwide destinations.

Gold Digger Apples provides fruits in an array of colors, including gold, but its produce isn't dug up from the ground. Rather, it's picked from trees and bushes. In addition to apples, the company packs and ships cherries, nectarines, peaches, pluots, and pears to US and foreign foodservice operators, retail food outlets, and food wholesalers. Gold Digger grows such apple varieties as Braeburn, Jonagold, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious, which are custom packaged in tray packs, bags, loose bushels, and gift boxes. The company also owns Okanogan Estate & Vineyards.

Less is more at the Carl Buddig & Company, which manufactures and markets some of the thinnest lunch meats available. The company's most popular brand, Original Buddig, is a svelte 10-15 calories per slice and comes in choices such as beef, chicken, turkey, ham, pastrami, and corned beef. It also offers Old Wisconsin brand smoked beef jerky sticks and snack bites, along with wieners, bratwurst, Polish sausage, summer sausage, and ring bologna. Carl Buddig's meat products are available in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada, and are sold at retail food outlets, including Kroger, Albertson's, Safeway, Food Lion, Giant, Roundy's, and others.

Solae is the world leader in developing soy‑based technologies and ingredients enjoyed by consumers around the world in products such as baked goods, beverages, nutrition bars, meats, vegetarian meals and much more. Since Solae's inception more than 50 years ago, Solae has dedicated itself to soy research and product development, providing innovative solutions to enhance the nutritional, functional and economical benefits of soy food products. Solae helps its customers succeed through advanced technologies, quality soy products and worldwide support to ensure they have a sustainable and competitive advantage in the global food marketplace. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Solae was formed in 2003 through a joint venture between DuPont and Bunge.

When Little Debbie smiles up out of your lunch bag, you know you are loved. McKee Foods' Little Debbie is one of the US's best known brands of snack cakes, named for and featuring the smiling face of the four-year-old granddaughter of the company's late founders, O.D. and Ruth McKee. McKee also makes ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, granola, creme-filled cookies, crackers, and snack bars. There are more than 150 varieties of Little Debbie-brand snack packs. McKee's products are available in the US, Canada, and Mexico, as well as at US military commissaries around the world. The company is still owned and operated by the McKee family, including CEO Mike McKee.

A business started in 1933 - the depths of the depression - by one man, Frank Donio. His idea was simple: purchase South Jersey's finest fruits and vegetables from local farms, choose only the best produce, and sell it to area stores and markets - at a fair price. He operated alone and shipped to the Philadelphia Market and the Newark Farmers Market.Over the years, Donio Produce had grown from a small warehouse in Hammonton, New Jersey to a leading national wholesaler of "Jersey Fresh" fruits/vegetables and herbs. From modest beginnings, the company now has expanded to occupy a 75,000 square foot building at which 17 trailers can be loaded simultaneously. In addition, other trailers are loaded every day at various other shipping points, including farmers auction blocks and farms.

Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. has become one of the top 25 manufacturers of confections in the world. Headquartered in Round Lake, Minnesota, Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of quality confectionery and gum products, offering full line, full service opportunities to all classes of trade in the United States. Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. success in the industry, experience with acquisitions, and significant capital resources established Farley's & Sathers Candy Company as a leader in the confection industry. Farley's & Sathers Candy Company has developed its business both through internal growth and through the acquisitions of famous confectionery brands, including FARLEY'S®, SATHERS®, HEIDE®, JUJYFRUITS®, NOW AND LATER®, BOBS®, SWEET STRIPES®, SUPER BUBBLE®, FRUIT STRIPE®, RAIN-BLO®, TROLLI®, CHUCKLES®, AND BRACH'S®.

As the largest producer of peat moss in North America, Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund supplies everything but the sun to help plants grow. The company produces and distributes peat moss, peat-based and bark-based growing mixes, fertilizers, and agricultural minerals for commercial growers and home gardeners under various brand names including Sunshine, Nature's, Lakeland, and Black Gold. It also produces private- label growing mixes for large home and garden retailers such as Wal-Mart, Lowe's, and Home Depot. Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund operates through Sun Gro Horticulture Canada and subsidiary businesses.

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