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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.

The Country Pride Cooperative has provided assistance to farmers in south central South Dakota since 1935. Country Pride offers it members an agronomy center, seed sales, grain storage and merchandising, a feed mill, and an equipment-rental center, as well as finance programs and farm supply stores an auto-service center and bulk refined fuel delivery. It also operates five convenience stores under the Cenex name. The co-op was created through the 2000 merger of two area cooperatives, Freeman Oil Cooperative (formed in 1935) and Dakota Pride Cooperative.

Forget Idaho. County Super Spuds has been growing Maine potatoes for five generations. The company operates through three subsidiaries -- the 500-acre Sunday River Farms (bought in 2004) grows the potatoes, JDR Transport (launched in 1992) ships them to food processors such as Penobscot McCrum, which was also bought in 2004. County Super Spuds is owned by the McCrum family. The company is located in Aroostook County, in northeastern Maine near the Canadian border, which was known as the Potato Capital of America in the early 20th century.

Cranberries Limited rode a different wave to get its fruit to market. Started by former Ocean Spray members, the company made a splash with its 100% fruit juice blends (versus Ocean Spray's sweetened cranberry cocktails). In 2005 it sold its juice division to independent juice company Apple & Eve for sbout $11 million. The purchase included the company's Northland, TreeSweet, and Awake brands, as well as its Seneca brand license. Cranberries Limited continues to manage its 17 Wisconsin cranberry growing operations. It supplies cranberry concentrate to Apple & Eve and Ocean Spray.

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