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Blue Diamond® Growers is the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company. Founded in 1910, the cooperative is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. Blue Diamond® led the development of California's almond industry from a minor domestic specialty crop to the world leader in almond production and marketing. We continue to build markets and create new products, new uses, and new opportunities for members of Blue Diamond® Growers. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, approximately 3000 California almond growers deliver California almonds annually to their cooperative. The crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, and the sixth largest U.S. food export. The California crop is valued annually at over $2 billion dollars.

In 1868, Henry K Webster rented a small grist mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and started the H.K. Webster Company, a business that would grow into one of the largest feed manufacturing companies in the Northeast, Blue Seal Feeds.In the early days, the emphasis of the business was on supplying horse feed. That product line has grown to include feeds for dairy cattle, beef cattle, horses, sheep , goats, llamas, pigs, deer, dogs, cats, rabbits, wild birds, caged birds, poultry, herbivore zoo animals, and fish as well as products for the lawn and garden. Today, Blue Seal is a subsidiary of Muscatine Foods Corporation of Muscatine, Iowa. Headquartered in Londonderry, New Hampshire, the company operates nine manufacturing facilities throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. Blue Seal enjoys a well-earned reputation for high quality, consistent feed and outstanding customer service.

BOCM PAULS helps farmers with many mouths to feed. The company is one of the largest animal feed makers in the UK. Its Feedex Nutrition business produces pig feed; its Farmgate unit produces feed for cattle, poultry, and other livestock. Its Hickstead Feeds unit manufactures feed for horses, and its Marsdens Feeds produces specialty feeds for game birds and sport dogs. The company operates 16 feed mills. BOCM PAULS was founded in 1992 as a result of the the merger of BOCM Silcock and Pauls Agriculture. Management owns a majority of the company.

J.R. Brooks knew he had a better way to pack and ship tropical produce. And to prove this point, he rode a boxcar filled with his freshly grown Florida green-skinned avocados from Homestead, Florida to market in New York City.That was 1928.Today the company is headed up by his son, CEO Neal Palmer (Pal) Brooks and President Craig Wheeling.The firm has built a reputation as a premier supplier of tropical fruits and vegetables across North America.Key to this competitive edge is Brooks Tropicals' capability to harvest over 70% of what the firm sells, specializing in Caribbean Red and Caribbean Sunrise papayas, SlimCado avocados, starfruit or carambola, Persian limes and Uniq Fruit.

Bunge Limited grinds it out. The company is a leading global soy and other oilseed processor, a leading South American fertilizer maker and provider, and, through subsidiary Bunge North America, a major US food and food ingredient processor. Its joint venture with DuPont (Solae), of which Bunge owns 28%, makes soy-based food ingredients. Bunge also processes canola seed, sunflower seed, wheat, and corn. Its fertilizer operations take place mainly through its interest in Brazil-based Fosfertil. The operation involves all stages of production, from the mining of phosphate-based raw materials to the selling of blended fertilizers.

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