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Continental Grain Company (CGC) is all over the food chain. The agribusiness company trades grain worldwide through subsidiaries including ContiAsia and ContiLatin. That grain is fed to chickens at subsidiary Wayne Farms, a major US poultry processor with 11 facilities and a capacity to process almost 2 billion pounds of poultry a year. CGC also has partnerships with Seaboard Corporation (called ContiSea), Charoen Pokphand, and Overseas Shipholding Group. In 2008 CGC formed Arlon, a private investment firm that manages three separate portfolios made up of diverse holdings. Chairman and CEO Paul Fribourg (a descendant of company founder Simon Fribourg) and his family own CGC.

COOPERATIVE ELEVATOR CO. is an agricultural cooperative situated in Michigan's "thumb"- a rich agricultural region offering fertile soils, tiled fields, adequate rainfall, and temperatures moderated by Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay.The region combines trained and experienced producers, excellent work ethics, good transportation, a strong agricultural infrastructure, diversified crop and livestock enterprises, and progressive farming practices to create a spirit of cooperation and partnering.The cooperative is owned by over 900 farmer producers and has been in business since 1915. Cooperative Elevator Co. is headquartered in Pigeon, Michigan and has plants in Akron, Bad Axe, Deckerville, Elkton, Fairgrove, Gagetown, North Branch, Pigeon, Ruth, and Sebewaing. We provide quality farm inputs to member patrons. These farm supplies include feed, seed, fertilizer, chemicals, and petroleum.

Cooperative Terrena takes Gallic farmers from farm to market and back again. The cooperative (formerly Groupe CANA, or Cooperative Agricole La Noelle Ancenis) and its subsidiaries supply 30,000 farmer-members in western France with animal feed, fertilizer, seeds, and fuel. The co-op also operates retail stores that sell gardening supplies and items for the do-it-yourselfer. Cooperative Terrena markets beef and mutton through its Soviba division; it markets poultry through Gastronome. The cooperative's dairy brands are sold under the Laita brand (mass market), Epi-Ingredients (food industry), and Ovipac (catering). Cooperative Terrena also makes wine for member grape growers.

Copersucar S.A. is the largest Brazilian sugar, ethanol and bioenergy company and a significant player in the major world markets. With 39 associated mills, it has a unique business model that integrates every link of the sugar, ethanol and bioenergy production, commercialization and logistics chain, from operational planning to direct delivery to the end customer in Brazil and abroad.Copersucar’s unique model enables it to capture value by driving production efficiency at the mills through its management of producers and by building scale in logistics, commercialization and risk management. The benefits for producers include the guaranteed sale of all their production on a long-term basis, lower performance and default risk and, most importantly, increased investment capacity through partnerships and projects aimed at driving the group’s growth and competitiveness. The company intends to triple its business by 2018, achieving a 30% share of Brazilian sugar and ethanol production. Copersucar’s growth strategy is based on expanding the production of member mills, attracting new members and expanding sales of sugar and ethanol produced by non-members.

Battling both boll weevils and synthetic fibers, Cotton Incorporated bolsters the US cotton industry through its research and marketing efforts. To the public, Cotton Inc. is known for its white-on-brown "Seal of Cotton" logo -- recognized by about 75% of Americans -- and its advertising slogan, "The fabric of our lives." Founded in 1970, Cotton Inc. is funded by US growers of upland cotton, cotton importers, and cotton-product makers. Its board consists of representatives from each cotton-growing state, all of whom are themselves cotton producers. Cotton Incorporated is overseen by the US Department of Agriculture.

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