King Cotton is alive and well in Memphis. Homegrown Dunavant Enterprises is one of the largest cotton traders in the world, handling more than 6 million bales of cotton per year. The company, which grew by selling aggressively to China and the Soviet Union, maintains cotton-buying offices in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the southern US. Dunavant also maintains cotton ginning operations, which have a capacity of handling 700,000 bales (or more than 150,000 metric tons) of cotton every year. Dunavant Enterprises is owned by the Dunavant family and company employees.

From piglets to poults and hogs to hens, Murphy-Brown supervises a growth industry. As the livestock production subsidiary of pork-processing giant Smithfield Foods, it is the world's largest hog producer and a leading US turkey producer as well. Through partnerships with contract farmers and its own farms, Murphy-Brown maintains about 1 million breeding sows and produces more than 17 million market hogs annually. Its turkey operations produce about 10 million turkeys a year. Along with its own animal production facilities, the company contracts with about 1,700 US farmers, who supply the company with hogs and turkeys.

If it seems that Bossie is belching, Porky is pooped, or Mary's little lamb is languishing, ECO Animal Health makes products that can help. The UK company makes and markets generic and patented pharmaceuticals (such as its own Aivlosin brand) for animals, mainly livestock and farm animals. It has operations in Brazil, China, Japan, South Africa, the UK, and the US. About 25% of sales are generated in Europe, with the balance coming from outside markets. Schroder Investment Management and executive chairman Peter Lawrence and his family each own about 20% of the company; Prudential plc owns 15%.

Lead character Miles, from the wine centric film Sideways, would feel right at home at Kent Rasmussen Winery. The winery, which produces wine varietals under the Kent Rasmussen Winery and Ramsay Wines labels, specializes in Pinot Noir (Miles' favorite) and Chardonnay, hailing from the Carneros region of California. Because of its clay soil and low rainfall, the Carneros region is optimally suited for growing Pinot Noir grapes. The vineyard is run by husband-and-wife team Kent Rasmussen and Celia Ramsay; Rasmussen planted his first six acres in the region back in 1979.

Baldwin Richardson Foods Company manufactures custom liquid products for food manufacturers and chain restaurants. It provides dipping sauces, mustards, signature sauces and condiments, breakfast and shake syrups, dessert toppings, and specialty fillings for the baking industry. The company also offers formulated liquid ingredients, including bakery fillings, cereal pastes and coatings, fruit preparations and preserves, fudges and caramels, glazes, icings and drizzles, ice cream variegates, low water activity fillings, meal kit sauces, toppings, savory sauces and fillings, shelf stable cheese sauces and fillings, shelf stable yogurt and cream cheese flavors, syrups, health and wellness alternatives, ethnic and fusion sauces, and flavors. In addition, it provides beverage syrups and pancake syrups, as well as offers contract packaging, private labeling, and co-packing options.

Marker 29 plants its "Carrots for Sale" signpost in the southeastern region of the US. Marker 29 Produce company is an agent and broker for the fresh produce industry. Its primary product is carrots; Marker 29 also offers a variety of other fruits and vegetables. Marker 29 Produce company's principal partner is Coggins Farms & Produce, which has produce growing and packing operations in Georgia. Marker 29 provides storage, packing, and delivery services and offers private-label packaging. Its products can be found in retail stores such as Albertson's, SUPERVALU, and Winn Dixie.

In 1932, Karl Ehmer started his first butcher shop on 46th Street and Second Avenue in New York City, NY. Due to the depression, Mr. Ehmer was forced to make product at night and work a full time job uptown during the day. Mrs. Ehmer ran the shop during the daylight hours. In the 1940's, as times improved, Mr. Ehmer began to look for a larger manufacturing facility and found one in a German community in Queens, called Ridgewood. From this facility he manufactured products for six stores.Karl Ehmer is where you expect the wurst, and you'll get it. The company specializes in traditional German sausages and other meats, selling its wares at retail stores and to wholesale customers. Karl Ehmer's started with a single butcher's shop in Manhattan in 1932, then later moved to a German-American community in Queens, where its headquarters remains. The retail chain has dwindled to about 10 stores (five of which are in New York), but the company has stepped up its sales to regional distributors, high-end food emporiums like Dean & DeLuca, and other grocers, while also selling through its Web site. Brothers Mark and Alan Hanssler, grandsons of Karl Ehmer himself, acquired the company in 1993.

Crystal Farms cheese processing plant is located in Lake Mills, Wisconsin where we have access to the best cheese from select dairies throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest. It's clearly one reason why since 1926, we've accomplished our primary goal of providing you high quality products at a better value than bigger national brands. Today we are the third largest brand of shredded, chunk and processed single cheese in the country.

DPI Specialty Foods, DPI Specialty Foods Rocky Mountain distributes speciality food items to grocery stores and speciality food retailers in more than a dozen states. DPI Specialty Foods company supplies its customers with gourmet foods items, organic food products, and ethnic food items. Its customers include supermarket chains as well as independent retailers. Parent DPI Specialty Foods is controlled by the Irish Dairy Board.

Victory Brewing Company makes European-style craft beers. The company's colorfully named brands -- among them HopDevil, Hop Wallop, Golden Monkey, St. Boisterous, and Old Horizontal -- are also sold in taverns and retail outlets in its home state, Pennsylvania, as well as in about a dozen other states. It also operates an onsite brewpub that serves up sandwiches, salads, pizza -- and Victory's beers. Boyhood friends Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet founded the company in 1996.

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