Natural Selection Foods took root on a three-acre raspberry farm. Today it's a leading supplier of packaged organic salads to retailers and foodservice operators nationwide. Natural Selection Foods company's more than 100 different products, which also include organic fruits and vegetables, juice, cookies, and granola, are sold in 75% of US grocery stores under the Earthbound Farm brand name. Natural Selection's growers operate some 33,000 certified organic acres in the US (Arizona, California, Colorado, and Washington), Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand. In 2006 the California company recalled its fresh spinach and salad mixes containing spinach, which were the subject of an FDA nationwide recall due to an outbreak of E. coli.

United Farmers Cooperative provides a wide range of agriculture products and services to our members throughout southern Minnesota. People....Pride....Purpose....is our motto and focus since 1915. Our team of experienced employees works daily to provide you with the technology, products and services you need to enhance your agriculture operations and daily lives. Times are changing in agriculture—United Farmers Cooperative is your producer-owned cooperative that is always planning ahead and leading the way to your operation’s successful future.

The market for vegetarian-fed, hormone-free beef is quite the cash cow for Meyer Natural Angus. After acquiring Coleman Natural Foods' beef division and Laura's Lean Beef, Meyer Natural Angus is now one of the top producers of natural beef (i.e., fed a grass- and grain-only diet, using no hormones or antibiotics) in the US. Its meat comes from the 43,000-acre Meyer Company Ranch in Montana and 200 contracted Red Angus cattle ranchers across the US. Processing about 10,000 head of cattle every month, Meyer's sells its fresh and frozen ground beef, bulk and pre-formed patties, fresh and frozen steaks and cuts, and dry-aged steaks throughout the country.

As Mexico's leading chicken and chicken egg producer, Industrias Bachoco doesn't care if the chicken or the egg came first. The company operates poultry production and distribution facilities throughout Mexico and accounted for more than 30% of Mexico's total chicken production in 2008. Bachoco breeds, processes, and markets chicken (accounting for about 77% of the company's sales that same year). It produces and distributes eggs, swine, and animal feed. Although it brings in less than 1% of the company's sales, Bachoco also offers turkey and selected value-added beef products. (It raises no turkey or cattle, it only processes them.) The Robinson Bours family owns an 83% interest in the company.

BRF - Brasil Foods (formerly Perdig�o) leads pigs and chickens from the farm to the freezer. A top Brazilian provider of fresh and frozen pork and poultry, it owns farms, slaughterhouses, animal-feed factories, incubators, and meat-processing facilities. In addition to chicken, turkey, pork, and some beef, the company has concentrated on offering more value-added processed frozen foods. The company's processed foods, which accounted for half of its 2009 sales, include frozen vegetables, pizza, and desserts, as well as margarine, powdered and fluid milk, soy-based vegetarian products, and pasta-based ready meals. In 2009 the company acquired rival Brazilian meat company Sadia and was renamed BRF - Brasil Foods.

Icelandic UK company imports seafood to the UK from producers in the chilly northern waters of the Faroe Islands, Russia, Norway, Canada, and China. Frozen-at-sea fish, including cod, redfish, and haddock, are processed into fillets on board immediately after being caught for the trip to market. Icelandic UK supplies foodservice wholesalers, mainly local fish-and-chip shops. Launched in 1998, Icelandic UK also imports fish fillets, whole fish, crabsticks, warm-water prawns, and other seafood products under the Icelandic and other brand names. Icelandic UK, Ltd. is a subsidiary of the Icelandic Group.

Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS) is one of the largest beverage companies in the Americas. We manufacture, market and distribute more than 50 brands of carbonated soft drinks, juices, ready-to-drink teas, mixers and other premium beverages across the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Our diverse portfolio includes Dr Pepper, Snapple, 7UP, Mott’s, A&W, Sunkist Soda, Canada Dry, Hawaiian Punch, Schweppes, Peñafiel, Squirt, Clamato, Mr & Mrs T Mixers, Rose’s, Yoo-hoo and other consumer favorites.

JBS USA Holdings is big beef, prodigious pork, and lord of lamb. The company, a subsidiary of Brazil's JBS (the world's #1 beef processor and exporter), operates beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities in the US and Australia. Its holdings include JBS Swift (12 processing plants) and JBS Packerland (boxed and ground beef production), both in the US, and Australia's Tasman Group (10 beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities and five feedlots). JBS USA also owns JBS Five Rivers, which operates 11 feedlots. Other businesses include a tannery, seven distribution centers, and two grease-production facilities; JBS USA exports to 60 countries. It filed to go public in 2009.

At U.S. Premium Beef, we take beef very seriously. Our Unitholders and Associates from 36 states share a belief that quality beef begins at the ranch and ends with satisfied consumers. They've made a commitment to select the right genetics and to use the best possible production practices--from the ranch to mealtime--to produce consistent, high-quality beef.This website will help you learn how you can join the more than 2,100 Associates of U.S. Premium Beef to earn greater profits for producing beef designed for today's consumers.U.S. Premium Beef continues to accept new producers who want to earn premiums for producing better quality beef.During fiscal year 2009, U.S. Premium Beef Unitholders and Associates earned an average of $30.95 per head over the cash market by selling their cattle through this unique producer-owned beef company. On top of that, our Unitholders and Associates have also realized more than $140 million in dividends and cash distributions derived primarily from the earnings of their processing company, National Beef Packing Company, LLC since USPB began operations in 1997.

Benziger Family Winery produces a wide variety of Bordeaux wines from its 168-acre, family-owned and -operated vineyards and winery, which is located in Glen Ellen, California. In addition to using its own fruit, Benziger also makes wines from grapes grown by a network of 50 other area vineyards. The company is dedicated to certified-sustainable, organic farming practices. It operates a research and education center to further these practices, which it shares with its longtime Sonoma County grower/partners. Benziger Family wines are distributed to retailers and restaurants throughout the US, as well as through its wine club and the company's Web site. Benzinger's first wines were produced in 1981.

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