Seneca Foods Corporation is a producer and distributor of processed fruits and vegetables. The Company’s product offerings include canned, frozen and bottled produce and snack chips and its products are sold under private label, as well as national and regional brands that the Company owns or licenses, including Seneca, Libby’s, Aunt Nellie’s Farm Kitchen, Stokely’s, Read and Diamond A. The Company packs Green Giant, Le Sueur and other brands of canned vegetables, as well as select Green Giant frozen vegetables for General Mills Operations, LLC (GMOL). As of March 31, 2010, the Company’s facilities consisted of 20 processing plants located throughout the United States, two can manufacturing plants, two seed processing operations, a small farming operation and a limited logistical support network. The Company also maintains warehouses, which are generally located adjacent to its processing plants.

Westbridge Research Group wants to survive for another thousand years or so, and its products will make sure the planet will be here as well. The company manufactures environmentally safe agricultural chemicals for agriculture (fruits and vegetables), gardens, lawn, and turf. Its offerings include bioremediation (sewage treatment) products, fertilizers, and plant-growth regulators, all safe for consumers, workers, and the environment. The company's brands include TRIGGRR (plant-growth regulator) and BIOLINK (fertilizer). Westbridge Research also develops formulations for private-labels clients. The company was founded in 1982.

Agricultural producers unite is the rallying cry at this co-op. United Producers is an livestock cooperative that offers marketing, financing, and credit services to its member ranchers and farmers. It also provides risk management and production management services. The co-op has some 45,000 members in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri. All total, it operates more than 40 facilities and handles some 3 million head of livestock. In addition, it maintains a loan portfolio of more than $50 million. United Producers was founded in 1999 through the consolidation of Producers Livestock Association (Ohio/Indiana) and MFA Livestock (Missouri).

Angels don't help the Christian Brothers bottle their brandy; Heaven Hill does. One of Kentucky's oldest and largest distilling operations, Heaven Hill Distilleries makes Evan Williams Bourbon as well as super-premium bourbons under the brand names Elijah Craig and Henry McKenna. The company bought the Christian Brothers brandy and Old Fitzgerald bourbon brands in 1999. The company also distributes a variety of other spirits, including the aperitif Dubonnet. Founded in 1934 by five brothers from the Shapira family, Heaven Hill is still family owned.

Oakshire Mushroom Farm has the right to dole out Dole products. The company is the exclusive grower of Dole's fresh mushrooms. Its mushroom varieties include white, portobello, and shiitake. Its subsidiary Oakshire Mushroom Sales markets and distributes the products to customers in the retail food and foodservice distribution sectors, as well as to food-manufacturing companies. Its other subsidiary, Golden Oak Spawn, produces a line of hybrid mushroom spawn for other commercial mushroom growers; it also offers shiitake home-growing kits for people perhaps looking for a new hobby. Oakshire Mushroom Farm was founded and is owned by president Gary Schroeder.

Billington’s sugars are all unrefined which means they have been simply made by pressing out, cleaning and crystallising the juice from the sugar cane. Billington’s sugars range from a light golden to a dark treacly brown colour as the natural molasses of the sugar cane has been retained within each crystal to give the sugar a delicious flavour and aroma. Billington's offers a complete range of natural, unrefined sugars to meet all your sugar needs. Whether the recipe is sweet or savoury there is the perfect sugar for you.The unrefined soft brown sugars are perfect for baking. Billington's Light and Dark Muscovados are unrivalled in their rich flavour, colour and aroma and are the finest of the soft brown sugars. The unrefined golden baking sugars add a subtle flavour and natural colour. Golden Caster is the natural alternative to refined white caster sugar and Golden Icing Sugar is delicious in butter cream or makes a great meringue.

R.E.A. Holdings maintains oil palm operations -- the cultivation of oil palms and the production of crude palm oil -- in the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. R.E.A. Holdings company owns about 65,000 hectares of land, and has access to 125,000 hectares, of which about 35,000 hectares (about 33,000 acres) are in production at any given time. R.E.A. Holdings company's two mills produce all of its crude palm oil and palm kernels and its fleet of barges transport the oil to a shipping terminal downstream. REA's facilities also include residential "villages" for field and plant workers. The majority of the company's sales are in Indonesian and other parts of Asia.

As one of the world's largest poultry-breeding operations, Aviagen knows that the egg probably came first, but it's chicks that sell best. Comprised of two units (broiler/breeder and turkey), Aviagen sells day-old parent and grandparent chicks for the production of commercial chicken broilers and turkeys. Its chicken brands include Arbor Acres, L.I.R., and Ross; its turkey brands are Nicholas and British United Turkeys (B.U.T.) The company also offers biosecurity programs for poultry operations that designed to keep pathogens out of the food chain. Aviagen has customers worldwide and is owned by the privately owned German holding company, the EW GROUP.

A.V. Thomas Produce knows a sweet potato is not just a yam by another name. The California grower produces, packages, and sells several varieties of yams and the yam's sweeter cousin, the sweet potato. (Though the names are used interchangeably in this country, most US-grown "yams" are actually sweet potatoes.) With 1,700 acres in production, its brands include Best West, Court House, Nature's Pride, Oriental Beauty, Royal Flush, Sweetie Pie, Thomas, and Winner; it is also a major US producer of organic sweet potatoes, which it sells under the Natural Beauty label. Founded in 1960 by Antonio Vieira Tomas, an immigrant from the Azores Islands, A.V. Thomas is owned and run by Tomas's nephew, CEO Manuel Vieira.

Cygnet Food was founded in 1996. Cygnet Foods keeps itself busy feeding more than 30,000 people every day. Cygnet company's main business is Cygnet Foods which produces and delivers fresh foods to institutional customers. Its production facility prepares individual and multi-portion sandwiches, entries, salads, desserts, and beverages, which are then distributed through its refrigerated truck fleet. Compact and Cygnet Catering are offshoots which offer in-house contract catering services. Compact's customers include nursing homes and business workplaces, while Cygnet caters to the education industry.

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