US Soy works to make organic, non-genetically modified soy a staple product in the US and abroad. US Soy company grows, processes, and sells whole soybeans, as well as soy flour, meal, oil, powder, and roasted soy nuts, pieces, and bits (salted and unsalted). It develops its own totally traceable seed stock. US Soy sells its products to consumer product manufacturing companies in the baking, beverage, health food, infant food, nutritional supplement, pet food, and snack industries. US Soy has customers worldwide.

Hickory Foods produces pre-formed, frozen BUBBA Burgers and BUBBA Hickory Smoked Bacon for retail grocery customers. Best known in the southeastern portion of the US, the company's products are available throughout the US, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, as well as worldwide through the US military commissary system. BUBBA Burgers come in a range of styles and tastes, including jalapeno, reduced fat, sweet onion, and Texas-shaped varieties. Walter "Bubba" Eaves founded the company in the 1990s and continues to oversee burger production, although he sold the company to partners and executives, William Morris and Steven Coon in 2000.

If you're looking for a taste treat with a distinct and spicy flavor, Chorizo De San Manuel is where it's at. Located in Edinburg, Texas, the company makes and distributes chorizo (an Hispanic spiced sausage, usually made with pork but sometimes beef). The firm's meat products, sold under the Chorizo De San Manuel and San Luis brands, are all-natural, with no added preservatives or fillers. They are available at food retailers including HEB, Wal-Mart and Sams Club, as well as through the company's Web site. Chorizo De San Manuel, founded in 1975, is owned and operated by the Flores family.

Mott's LLP is a leading US producer of branded applesauce and apple juice. Its products are available in family-sized and single-serve varieties. The firm's products include Mott's for Tots, single-serving, vitamin-C-enhanced, reduced-sugar juice drinks in four flavors -- apple, apple white grape, fruit punch, and strawberry banana. In order to better serve the adult sector, Mott's offers a "plus light" vitamin-fortified apple-juice beverage sweetened with Splenda. Mott's LLP company's products are available throughout North America. Mott's is part of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

Fowler Packing Company was established in 1950 by Sam Parnagian, and through the years has grown and expanded under the active management of Sam’s four sons and other family members. Today, Fowler Packing is one of the largest shippers in the fresh produce business, handling over 8 million boxes of stone fruit, table grapes, and mandarins. More than two-thirds of the fruit is owned and farmed by the Parnagian Family, with the balance coming from experienced and dedicated growers closely associated with the business.

The family-owned General Produce Co., Ltd. was started by Tai Oy Chan in 1933. General Produce is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh produce serving both retail and foodservice customers in Northern California and parts of Oregon and Nevada. It supplies a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables to supermarket chains and independent grocers, as well as restaurants, schools, and institutional foodservice operators. In addition to fresh produce, General Produce distributes such specialty products as flowers, ethic food items, and organic produce.

D. D. Williamson is one of the world's leading manufacturers of caramel colorings, which used for tinting such products as beer, bread, yogurt, and pet foods. D. D. Williamson company makes more than 100 varieties of colorings used by food and beverage makers around the world, including soft drink maker Coca Cola. D. D. Williamson also makes other natural coloring ingredients in a rainbow of colors used to create dairy products, dressings, sport drinks, and other foods and beverages. D. D. Williamson company has operations in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Shoreline Fruit Growers manufactures dried fruit and frozen fruit products, including apples, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, and strawberries. Shoreline Fruit company's products are distributed through specialty foods retailers and grocery stores. Shoreline Fruit also sells dried fruit to distribution companies and food manufacturers. Shoreline Fruit company grows its own fruit, as well as buys produce from local farmers. Expanding its industrial customer base, shoreline company merged with the freezer warehouse storage facility Cherry Country FruitWorks in 2008. It then moved its headquarters from New York State to Traverse City, Michigan, and changed its name to Shoreline Fruit Growers.

H. J. Heinz Company Limited is full of beans -- canned beans. The UK subsidiary of Heinz offers some of the same brands sold the US, plus some specifically aimed at the UK market. Its canned beans (Heinz Beanz) are not a staple of American pantries but the Brits love 'em -- they buy 1.5 million cans a day. Heinz soup is also popular, with the company selling 289 million cans a year. Then there's Heinz salad cream, a tangy condiment not seen in the US. And whereas Chef Boyardee is a top seller in the US, in the UK Heinz' canned spaghetti is a favorite. (Its version of SpaghettiOs is called Spaghetti Hoops.) And for all the new moms and dads, the company offers a full line of Heinz-branded baby foods.

Ellen Straus, matriarch of a pioneering organic dairy family and co-founder of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), America's first agricultural land trust, died at her home in Marshall, Calif. on November 30. She was 75. Few have done more to preserve the land and culture of western Marin County (San Francisco Bay Area), where she settled to start a family in 1950. She will be particularly remembered by fellow farmers and environmentalists as a determined optimist who brought opposing parties together to protect and revitalize the region's agricultural greenbelt.Ellen Tirza Lotte Prins was born February 21, 1927 in Amsterdam Holland. In February 1940, Ellen and her family fled to New York, just ahead of the Nazi invasion.

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