Latham Seed Company provides genetically superior varieties of soybean seed to farmers in the upper Midwest, including Iowa and parts of Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Soybean brands sold include Roundup Ready and CystX. The company was founded in 1947 by Willard Latham. It remains family-owned and -operated. Its newly formed sister company, Latham Hybrids, specializes in seed corn.

The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, has a sweet tooth. If we're correct and he does, See's Candies has what it takes to satisfy it. Owned by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, See's makes more than 100 varieties of premium chocolate truffles, caramels, toffee, and other confections, including boxed assortments, lollipops, and kosher treats. See's Candies, Inc. sells its sweets at some 200 franchised, black-and-white-decorated shops in the US, primarily in the western states. See's products are also sold for fundraisers, through its Internet site, and by mail order.

The Cambria Winery grows chardonnay, pinot noir, and syrah grape varietals on its 1,400-acre vineyard located 17 miles from the Pacific Ocean in the Santa Maria Valley just north of Santa Barbara, California. All of its wines are made from these estate-grown grapes, which are hand picked from the vine. Cambria proprietor, Barbara Banke, is also vice chairman of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates, which she co-founded with her husband, Jess Jackson. Cambria's wines can be purchased at beverage retailers in the US and from the company's Web site, but all online purchases are subject to state restrictions.

The FGN Group is a leader in plant genetic research and development for global biofuel, forestry and agricultural markets. The Group was formed by the merge of FGN Plc with CBD Technologies and has integrated the abiotic stress platform with the yield enhancement and processability technology from these entities into a powerful new package for the enhancement of biofuel, forestry and agricultural crops. It collaborates with renowned institutional partners worldwide and has thus been able to take an innovative and multi-faceted approach to significantly improve agronomic traits of value in plants. The FGN Group has strategic agreements with leading commercial companies in the forestry and agricultural sectors around the world and continues to actively partner its technologies. The Group has a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio that addresses environmental stresses in plants such as salinity, drought, cold, and heat and protects its developments on the modification of plant cell walls to enhance plant growth rates, yield and processability of plant fiber. FuturaGene technologies, by allowing plants to grow on marginal lands and to produce more usable fiber for industry, are a major contributor to ensuring food security and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture, forest product and biofuel production.

Florida Crystals Corporation unit of Flo-Sun, grows sugar cane and rice on its 180,000 acres. It operates two sugar mills, a rice mill, a refinery, a packaging and distribution center, and a renewable energy facility. Florida Crystals company's sugar products include granulated, baking, powdered, and large- and fine-grain, organic, and regular sugars under the C&H, Florida Crystals, Redpath, and Jack Frost brand names. With the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida (SCGC), Florida Crystals jointly owns American Sugar Refining, the owner and producer of the Domino brand sugar.

Clover Corporation Limited (Clover) is engaged in the refinement and sale of natural oils, production of microencapsulated powders, and the research and product development of functional food and infant nutrition ingredients. The Company operates in two business segments. The Company’s manufacturing division is engaged in the manufacture of tuna oils and related products. Major product lines of this division include, fish and algal oil-derived omega-3 oils and microencapsulated powders. Clover’s distribution division provides a range of freight and transportation services throughout, Australia and overseas and specializes in the transportation of the oil and soy bean products to various customers. Its subsidiaries include Nu-Mega Lipids Pty Limited, Nu-Mega Ingredients Pty Limited, Clover Healthcare Limited and Clover Corporation PLC.

European food retailers naturally look to Distriborg Groupe for specialty foods. A subsidiary of Dutch food group Koninklijke Wessanen, distriborg groupe is Europe's top distributor of organic, gourmet, and ethnic specialties (which includes foods from Europe, the Far East, India, the Mediterranean, and the US). Distriborg Groupe company distributes to supermarkets and health-food outlets throughout Europe, the franchised La Vie Claire organic-food shops in France, and various other specialty stores. Distriborg also has its own brands, such as Bonneterre, Vivis, Equilibrance, and Bjorg.

Calbee Foods Co., Ltd. was founded in 1949. Calbee Foods Company sells a line of potato chips under the Calbee brand and other snack foods such as SAYA snow pea crisps, Vegetaberu vegetable snacks, Yakimorokoshi corn puffs, breakfast cereal, and the very popular Kappa Ebissen shrimp-flavored potato sticks and crackers. It also produces limited-edition regional-flavored chips and snacks in curry, kimchee, and even Caesar salad. Besides Japan, Calbee has operations in China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the US (as Calbee America).

Our mission is to be the acknowledged leader in supplying the food processing industry with superior quality, efficiently and safely produced fruit, vegetable and other agricultural products from the growers of our Cooperative. Pro-Fac Cooperative grows big and strong on fruits and veggies. The farm co-op provides marketing and sales services to its approximately 500 member/owners across the US. The agricultural co-op sells its member-farmers' crops to companies in the food processing industry, including Birds Eye Foods (typically buys more than 40% of crops). Pro-Fac has members primarily in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. It was formerly a partial owner of Birds Eye, which was sold to Blackstone entity Pinnacle Foods in 2009. Since the sale, Pro-Fac has implemented a liquidation plan and looks to disband in 2012.

Founded by Warren Winiarski and his family in 1970.Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is best known for our estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignons—CASK 23, S.L.V., and FAY. Over the years, these wines have become some of the most highly regarded and collected wines worldwide. They are fashioned to express classic elegance, structure, and ageability, and to reflect the place in which they are grown.

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