Maple Leaf Foods makes hot dogs and the buns to put them in. The company is Canada's largest pork processor and produces fresh and processed pork and poultry products under its flagship Maple Leaf brand. Its agribusiness group raises swine and poultry and includes Canada's largest rendering operation, Rothsay. The company owns almost 90% of leading bakery business, Canada Bread, which produces fresh and frozen baked goods, pasta, and pasta sauces. Maple Leaf owns and operates 37 bakeries and 34 fresh and packaged meat plants. A branch of the McCain family owns 32% of Maple Leaf Foods' voting stock; the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan fund holds 33%.

The year is 1924. Tucked away in a small rock home on a quiet road in a small rural Texas town called Mansfield, Mildred Dalton is busy in her kitchen making pastries and pies. Her husband, Jessie Otis Dalton, operates a one-room grocery store in Fort Worth, Texas. Each day he takes to work with him more of her pastry creations and merchandises them alongside other food items for sale. Times are tough and extra money is needed. Mildred and Jessie have 3 children to care for. Mildred is using a lot of egg whites for pastry meringues, but hardly any of the leftover egg yolks, so she decides to use the egg yolks and begins making homemade mayonnaise.Before long Mildred's mayonnaise is a best seller in the Fort Worth grocery store and a favorite amongst family friends. In fact it is such a hit that neighbors begin to pay for it, and grocery store customers call in orders ahead of time to make sure that product is available. Mildred decides to compliment the popular mayonnaise by making an equally impressive homemade sandwich spread. This item, however, requires pickle relish as a main ingredient. As such, a relish supplier is secured but he soon raises prices to what are considered ridiculously high levels. Jessie and Mildred are left with no other option but to plant a pickle patch in their home garden. The ensuing harvest is so abundant that the family begins packing pickles.

Erath Vineyards Winery operates vineyards and a winery in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Erath's specialty is Pinot Noir, but it also produces Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc varietals. Erath farms 118 acres of land, purchases grapes from an additional 130 acres in Oregon, and produces approximately 65,000 cases of wine per year. Wines are sold under the Erath label and are available online and at the winery, where tastings take place daily. Dick Erath founded Erath Vineyards in 1967, which was among the first vineyards in the state of Oregon.

Since the early 1900's, the Miles family has been a leader in agriculture in Western Kentucky. What began for the family as a farming operation spread into the wholesale and retail market. In the early 1950's, William S. Miles began to experiment and plant hybrid seed corn. As the years went by, the next generation including Billy Joe Miles, entered the business and the Farm Supply operations continued to grow. Miles' goal is to help our customers become more successful by bringing better technologies, markets, and genetics for them to use. Most importantly, Miles strives to provide the necessary tools that will allow more profits to our customers.

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.

Horizon Milling, LLC was founded in 2002. Horizon Milling, LLC, a flour miller, provides flours for baking, food manufacturing, and private-label applications. Its products include wheat and flour products, wheat-based products, bakery flours, retail grocery flours, durum and semolina flours, and specialty flours. Horizon Milling company’s products are used in various applications, including breads and rolls, cookies and crackers, cakes, pies and pastries, bars, energy bars, muffins, pizza, pasta, noodles, batters, biscuits, baking mixes, bagels, salty snacks, dumplings, spaghetti, short pastas, coatings, blending, pancakes, and waffles. Horizon Milling also offers animal feed and vitamins. In addition, it offers technical support/consulting, risk management, and supply chain/logistics services. Horizon Milling company offers its products through distributors to bakery and other flour based manufacturers, and retail bakers.

Continental Grain Company (CGC) is all over the food chain. The agribusiness company trades grain worldwide through subsidiaries including ContiAsia and ContiLatin. That grain is fed to chickens at subsidiary Wayne Farms, a major US poultry processor with 11 facilities and a capacity to process almost 2 billion pounds of poultry a year. CGC also has partnerships with Seaboard Corporation (called ContiSea), Charoen Pokphand, and Overseas Shipholding Group. In 2008 CGC formed Arlon, a private investment firm that manages three separate portfolios made up of diverse holdings. Chairman and CEO Paul Fribourg (a descendant of company founder Simon Fribourg) and his family own CGC.

Dating back to 1846, Calhoun Bend Mill Inc. was founded and is still owned and operated by the Calhoun family. Calhoun Bend Mill offers up some good, old-fashioned, soothing, Southern, comfort food. Located in Jonesville, Louisiana, the company produces corn bread, fry, and dessert mixes using genuine stone-ground cornmeal that the company grinds itself. Calhoun Bend products are available to food retailers and foodservice providers throughout the US and Canada, as well as to individual consumers via the company's Web site.

Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd is a corporation limited by share that was sponsored by China Kweichow Moutai Factory Co., Ltd, Kweichow Moutai Technological Development Corporation, Kweichow Light Textile Collective Industrial Firm, Research Institute of Tsing- hua University in Shenzhen, China National Research Institute Of Food & Fermentation Industries, Beijing Sugar Tobacco & Win Corporation, Jiangsu Sugar Tobacco & Win Corporation, Shanghai Jieqiang Tobacco, Sugar & Wine (Group) Co., Ltd. etc., and approved by QFHZ(1999)No.291 of Kweichow Provincial People's Government with registered capital of 158 million Yuan. The Corporation specializes in the production and sale of Kweichow Moutai serial products, together with the production and sale of beverage, food and packaging material, development of anti-counterfeiting technology, research and development of relevant IT products. Currently, the annual production volume of Moutai in Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd has exceeded 10,000 ton; the 43°, 38° and 33° Moutai expand the room for the development of low-degree Moutai; Moutai Prince and Moutai Yingbin satisfy the need of middle and low-scale consumers; the 15-year, 30-year, 50-year and 80-year Moutai fill the blanks of masterwork wine, antique wine and aged Laojiao; it has created the manner for the development of wine in different years with 3 series of low-degree, high, middle and low-end and masterwork wine of over 70 specifications to fully enter the market so as to occupy the highest point of the alcohol market and become No.1 in China's masterwork alcohol market.

If dinner is to be Coq au Vin or Poulet au Vinagre, L.D.C. has the bird you'll need. As the leading poultry producer and processor in France, the company offers fresh chicken and turkey under such brands as Lou and Landes. Its prepared poultry is sold under the Le Gaulois and La Toque Angevine brands. L.D.C. also processes rabbit and offers ready-made meals, pizzas, and sandwiches. In addition to its home base in France (about 30 plants), the company has operations in Poland and Spain. The founding Lambert and Chancereul families, who gave L.D.C. its "L" and "C," respectively, formed the company in 1968.

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