AgFeed Industries readies hogs for the abattoir (i.e., the slaughterhouse). The company manufactures, distributes, and sells hog feed and feed additives, and owns almost 30 hog farms in China. It sells feed from its five plants to more than 650 large-scale pig farms (including its owns farms) and distributes feed to more than 1,000 retail locations. The company sells more than 75,000 tons of feed products a year under more than 20 different brand names. AgFeed Industries also raises hogs, including purebred Yorkshire, Landrace, and Duroc hogs, for slaughter. It produces more than 400,000 hogs per year and operates a 68-acre breeder pig farm to supply its farms with sows and boars. AgFeed was founded in 1995.

Beef Products, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of boneless lean beef, is headquartered in the heartland of America, Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. Since its inception in 1981, BPI has operated with one simple guideline, to be the best at what we do. This drive to be a leader within the meat industry has resulted in continuous development of new processing techniques, sanitation programs, and food safety innovations. BPI's dedication to quality and innovation spans over two decades of proven leadership in the lean meat manufacturing industry. BPI's products are found in the majority of all ground beef produced in the United States. Current production of over 7 million pounds per week, makes BPI the world's largest manufacturer of boneless lean beef in the world. Eating a hamburger from a Quick Service Restaurant or buying ground beef from your local retailer, the chances are you'll be eating product produced by BPI.

We understand the needs of hard-working egg producers, we exceed the expectations of demanding retail operations and we can respond rapidly to changing consumer tastes. We are Stonegate. Every day we move millions of eggs from hen houses across the country to the shelves of the UK's leading supermarkets, and into the shopping trolleys of Britains' consumers. And that's no mean feat. It means working closely and supportively with at least 250 egg producers to collect, grade and package the most fragile of food products. It means working in genuine collaboration with top retailers to identify and satisfy new and changing tastes. It means supplying first class egg products to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing.

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative was founded in 1972 and is based in Renville, Minnesota. Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative manufactures refined sugar, liquid sugar, pulp pellets, molasses, and separator molasses solubles from sugar beets. It also offers baker's sugar, granulated sugar, fruit sugar, liquid sucrose, beet pulp shreds, and raffinates. The company also produces dried beet pulp; beet molasses used for the production of yeast, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and mixed cattle feeds; and separator molasses solubles used primarily in liquid feed manufacturing, as well as in specialty processes, such as road de-icing and as tire ballast. It offers its products in the North American markets, as well as exports its dried beet pulp to Europe.

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.

US Farms Inc. farms out the hard work. The company grows, markets, and distributes, horticultural and agricultural products. Its American Aloe Vera Growers and American Nursery Exchange units supply such products as potted aloe vera, jade plants, and other succulents, along with cactus, palm and other trees, cycads and ornamental shrubs to customers that include garden and home centers, mass merchants, drug and grocery chains, wholesalers, landscapers, and large end-users such as hotels, office parks, and golf courses. It also sells aloe vera to customers in the nutraceutical and cosmetic industries for use in dietary supplements, gels, creams, and other personal care products.

For more than three decades, BC Hot House Foods Inc. has led the industry in perfecting the art of growing consistent, premium produce.In 1973, a group of greenhouse growers in British Columbia decided to pool their resources and called themselves the Western Greenhouse Growers Cooperative Association.Our products were an immediate success, which led to ongoing expansion. The association grew considerably over the years through new growers joining the co-op and existing growers expanding their greenhouses. In 1988, the Western Greenhouse Growers Cooperative Association merged with the Vancouver Island Greenhouse Growers Cooperative which created a consistent supply of fresh products that adhered to some of the highest quality standards in the produce industry. Today BC Hot House Foods Inc. is a leading North American company that offers a full line of greenhouse grown products across North America. While the company has changed over the past thirty years, the original mandate has remained the same – providing consumers with the very best quality hot house produce. The BC Hot House brand has become the preferred choice in the greenhouse industry.

Etienne Guittard embarked on an arduous journey from France to America. It was during the California Gold Rush, and in just a few short years, while still in his twenties, this adventuresome Frenchman struck gold on the rough and tumble streets of early San Francisco. Etienne had brought delicious French chocolate to trade for mining supplies, but soon discovered that wealthy miners were willing to pay premium prices for this elegant treat. Etienne sailed back to Tournus, France, where he worked in his uncle's chocolate factory until he could afford to buy his own chocolate making equipment. In 1868, he returned to San Francisco and opened Guittard Chocolate on Sansome Street.

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.

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