Ag Processing Inc a cooperative (AGP®) is a farmer-owned cooperative engaged in the procurement, processing, marketing, and transportation of grains and grain products.Since its formation in 1983, AGP has been committed to the success of its owners. Today, that is 184 local cooperatives representing over 250,000 farmers throughout the Midwest, and five regional cooperatives representing farmers throughout the United States and Canada.AGP operates nine soybean processing plants including six plants in Iowa, located at Eagle Grove, Emmetsburg, Manning, Mason City, Sergeant Bluff, and Sheldon. Other AGP processing plants are located at Dawson, Minnesota, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Hastings, Nebraska. The Hastings plant is the first farmer-owned soybean processing facility in that state.

Trident Seafoods Corporation engages in harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood products. Its products include salmon, herring, shellfish, and groundfish products; flounder fillets, cornmeal pollock strips, burger, and tuna steak; frozen halibut steaks and fancy king crabs; canned sockeye salmon and frozen Bristol Bay sockeye; halibut, cod, pollock, rockfish and Pacific ocean perch, and flounder and sole. It serves foodservice and retail distribution markets. Trident Seafoods Corporation company offers its products through specialty retail shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and cruise ships, as well as online stores.

Cliffstar Corporation began over 100 years ago, when Meyer Star settled in the Dunkirk-Fredonia area in New York State. As an innovator in the rapidly growing grape industry, Meyer Star produced Star Wine in the heart of this Chautauqua County grape belt. From those beginnings, the Cliffstar Corporation evolved in the early 1970’s and now produces shelf stable juices, teas, sports drinks, fitness waters, and vitamin waters. Today, Cliffstar remains privately owned by the Star Family. Cliffstar now includes 10 geographical locations and employs over 1300 associates which contribute to the company’s success. Cliffstar Corporation is the largest independent grape, cranberry, and prune juice processor, and one of the largest private label beverage suppliers in the United States. In addition to serving thousands of private label lines with more than 145 blends of juices, Cliffstar presses most of its own grapes, cranberries, and prunes to ensure consistent quality, flavor, and color in all its beverages. The Company's facilities include the most modern and sophisticated pressing and filtration equipment, large blending tanks, and numerous juice pasteurizers and coolers. Towering stainless steel tanks provide cold storage capacity in excess of 6 million gallons.

Alaskan Leader Fisheries, LLC, located in Lynden, Washington and Anchorage, Alaska is owned by the Alaskan Leader Group (ALG) and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation (BBEDC). Each of these groups consist of individuals who are lifelong fishing families that currently own and operate various fishing vessels in the salmon, longline and pot fisheries of Alaska. Alaskan Leader Fisheries manages three fishing vessels, the F/V Alaskan Leader, F/V Bristol Leader and the F/V Bering Leader, which are 50% owned by ALG and 50% by BBEDC.Each of the ALG members started in the 70's and 80's as crewmen in the Alaskan fishing industry and have independently worked their way up the ladder from deck, to wheelhouse, to eventually owning their own vessels.

Founded in 1987, the family-owned Montalvan's Sales, Inc. is licensed by the USDA to produce various meat products. Montalvan's Sales company imports ethnic foods from the Caribbean, Polynesia, and Central and South American countries, which it supplies to food merchants throughout the western US. Its product list includes canned meats, fresh produce, snack foods, condiments, and spices, and its labels include Arnott's, Bijol, Pilon, El Ebro, Colombiana, Lizano, Pony, Pan Pa' Ya!', and Riquitas.

Weil Brothers Cotton is an international cotton merchant. Weil Brothers buys ginned cotton from US producers and markets it worldwide. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the company was founded in 1878. It has been part of Weil Brothers & Stern Limited, a cotton trader in the UK, since 1991. As such, it handles all sales and administration of the UK company's US, Central and South American, and Chinese operations; it also oversees the company's Australian office. Due to volatile price fluctuations and severe losses in US cotton futures during 2008, Weil Brothers is slated to shut down operations in 2010, as is Weil Brothers & Stern.

Carr's Milling Industries will assist you in making bread, feeding the livestock, fertilizing the crops, repairing the commercial truck, getting parts for the nuclear reactor, and then booking your travel tickets, because by then you'll surely need a vacation. Carr's agricultural division manufactures and sells animal feed, fertilizers, and farm machinery through its 14 retail branches. Its Carr's Flour Mills unit makes flour for industrial and home use. Carr's engineering division includes Bendall's Engineering (steel fabrication), CarrsMSM (remote handling equipment for the nuclear industry), and R Hind (auto-body repair). Its B&A Travel arranges plane and hotel reservations.

Making, selling, and drinking wine is a family tradition for Raymond Vineyards. Raymond Vineyard & Cellar produces various styles of wines, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot; brandy; and other spirits from its family-owned Napa Valley vineyards. Wines, which are available through the company's Web site, are sold under the Napa Valley Reserve, Raymond Limited Edition, Raymond Estates, and Amberhill labels. Limited Edition wines are produced in low volumes and have their own subcategories based on specific requirements. Raymond Vineyard's products range in price from budget ($8 a bottle) to the pricey ($80 a bottle)

Mars knows chocolate sales are nothing to snicker at. Mars, Incorporated makes such worldwide favorites as M&M's, Snickers, and the Mars bar. Its other confections include 3 Musketeers, Dove, Milky Way, Skittles, Twix, and Starburst candy; Combos and Kudos snacks; Uncle Ben's rice; and pet food under the names Pedigree, Sheba, and Whiskas. It also owns the world's largest chewing gum maker, the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. The Mars family (including siblings and retired company CEO Forrest Mars Jr., chairman John Franklyn Mars, and VP Jacqueline Badger Mars) owns the highly secretive firm, making the family one of the richest in the US.

The Seafood Company operates through subsidiaries, MacRae Foods, Cromer Crab, and Pinneys of Scotland. MacRae makes value-added smoked fish and shellfish, such as smoked salmon appetizers and terrines, smoked haddock gratins, and kippers with butter. Cromer Crab processes local and imported crab, lobster, prawn, and other shellfish and offers chilled seafood specialties. Pinneys smokes salmon and whitefish; its value-added products include chilled pates, terrines, and other party food. The Seafood Company is also a major UK supplier of fresh seafood; its customers include grocery stores, catering businesses, and other food manufacturers.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.