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.

Goulding Chemicals Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Origin Enterprises plc and has been in existence since 1856.Goulding Chemicals Ltd supply a wide range of Agricultural Fertilisers and Industrial Chemicals to the Irish market - North and South. Goulding Chemicals supplies Irish farmers with agricultural fertilizers and industrial chemicals such as sodium and potassium hydroxide and sulphuric, hydrochloric, and nitric acids. The company has operations in Ardee, Askeaton, Athenry, Cork, Derry, and New Ross. The company distributes its products by the bag, in bulk, or by the tank load to the Irish agricultural market. It also provides technical consultation to farmers. Goulding brand garden care products have been moved over to its sister company Power Seeds and Hardware. Goulding is owned by agri-business Origin Enterprises.

If nibbling on a chicken wing while surfing the Net is your thing, Charoen Pokphand (CP Group) is the company for you. CP Group, Thailand's largest agriculture conglomerate, supplies seafood, poultry, and pork products; it also has an expanding suite of telecom offerings. CP's agri-business, which includes subsidiary Charoen Pokphand Foods, produces pet and livestock feed and horticultural products and machinery. It also distributes vegetable and flower seeds, fertilizer, and cultivates seafood. The telecom side of things includes fixed-line and mobile phone service, cable TV, Internet service, and Web design and development under the name True Corporation.

Moonlight Packing Corporation does its business so we can partake in fruit consumption by sunlight and moonlight. The California growing/packing/distribution company is a stone-fruit (peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots) and table-grape grower, packer and supplier.

If Old MacDonald actually had a farm, he'd want to be a member of the Five Star Cooperative. Operating in north-central and northeast Iowa, Five Star has operations in more than 15 small to midsized towns in the Hawkeye State. The cooperative is divided into five divisions, according to the products and services offered -- agronomy, petroleum (diesel fuel and home heating oil), feed (for beef cattle and swine), grain, and hardware -- it operates a True Value hardware store in New Hampton that offers all the usual hardware products and services. Established in 1916, Five Star Cooperative provides a full complement for its member/farmers.

H. H. Dobbins, which was founded in 1930, is owned by president Ward Dobbins. H. H. Dobbins packages, stores, and ships apples under the Old Dobbin brand name. In addition to some 15 varieties of apples, including McIntosh, Crispin, and Empire, H.H. Dobbins company distributes sweet and tart cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables. Dobbins purchases produce from growers in New York state, as well as other areas of the US. It distributes its products to customers, including food processors and retailers, throughout the US and Canada; it also sells products overseas.

Sunwest Fruit grows and ships about 3 million cartons of fresh produce per year, including hundreds of varieties of oranges, peaches, plums, and nectarines, to retailers all over the world under the Ripe 'N Ready brand. Sunwest Fruit company controls all aspects of production including farming (9,000 acres), picking, packing, and shipping. It has been owned and operated since 1988 by the Britz family, including company president, Martin Britz. In addition to thousands of acres of cropland, the family also owns several packinghouses, a fertilizer company, and a cotton gin.

Our mission is to be the acknowledged leader in supplying the food processing industry with superior quality, efficiently and safely produced fruit, vegetable and other agricultural products from the growers of our Cooperative. Pro-Fac Cooperative grows big and strong on fruits and veggies. The farm co-op provides marketing and sales services to its approximately 500 member/owners across the US. The agricultural co-op sells its member-farmers' crops to companies in the food processing industry, including Birds Eye Foods (typically buys more than 40% of crops). Pro-Fac has members primarily in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. It was formerly a partial owner of Birds Eye, which was sold to Blackstone entity Pinnacle Foods in 2009. Since the sale, Pro-Fac has implemented a liquidation plan and looks to disband in 2012.

The family-owned Lewis Brothers Bakeries Incorporated was established in 1925 by the Lewis brothers, Amos, Armold, and Jack. Welcome to Lewis Bakeries, with the Company headquarters located in Evansville Indiana, and additional bakeries in Murfreesboro Tennessee, Ft. Wayne, LaPorte and Vincennes Indiana. Lewis Bakeries is one of the few remaining independent bakeries in the Midwest and the largest wholesale bakery in Indiana. It is an honest, hard-working, traditional Midwestern company devoted to producing a high quality product. Its aim has always been twofold-to respond to consumers’ needs, and to produce the very best bakery foods.

Discovery Foods was founded by chairman James Beaton in 1989. Discovery Foods aims to stamp out dull food by allowing home cooks and foodservice operators to discover the power of chilies. The UK company makes spice-rich sauces, seasonings, condiments, and meal kits based on mainly Mexican cuisine (with some Cajun, Creole, and Texan selections available as well). Its also makes tortillas, wraps, and chips. The company's Discovery-branded (consumer) and Santa Maria-branded (foodservice) products are sold in the UK and mainland Europe.

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