Agribusiness Firms


Livestock Feed Firms
Seed Firms
Fertilizer Firms
Grain Marketing Firms
Railroads
Animal Health Firms
Crop Protection Firms
Equipment Manufacturers
Agricultural Cooperatives
Food Processing Firms
Food Distribution Firms
Ag E-Commerce
Agribusiness Consulting Firms
Other Links

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Livestock Feed Firms

  • Hubbard Feeds - A division of Ridley, Inc. a leading manufacturer and distributor of formulated animal feeds and animal health products.
  • Kent Feeds - Kent Feeds, Inc., operates 12 manufacturing plants in the upper Midwest.
  • MoorMan's, Inc - International manufacturer of livestock feeds and supplements.
  • Koch Industries - Cattle production, retail farm services, grain merchandising and processing.
  • Nutrena - Feed division of Cargill, Inc.
  • Purina Pet Foods - Manufacturer of Dog Chow and Cat Chow.
  • Ralston Purina - Pet Foods, Cereals, Everready batteries.
  • Purina Mills - Livestock Feeds.

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    Seed Firms

  • Asgrow Seed Co.
  • Cargill Hybrid Seeds
  • DEKALB Genetics Corporation - researcher/producer/marketer of hybrid corn, sorghum, sunflowers, varietal soybeans; alfalfa seed. Seed, agronomy, biotech; breeding info.
  • Exseed Genetics
  • Garst Seed Co.
  • Mycogen Corporation
  • Pioneer Hybrids - Largest U.S. seed corn company.
  • Stewart Seeds
  • Wyffels hybrids

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    Fertilizer Firms

  • J.R. Simplot Co. - Potato processing, fertilizer and cattle producer.
  • Ag Services of America, Inc.
  • Western Farm Service - Fertilizer and crop protection product retailer in the Western U.S.

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    Grain Marketing Firms

  • ADM - Archer Daniels Midland is a diversified agribusiness corporation.
  • Bunge - Bunge is a leading global food company. They operate in numerous aspects of the food production chain.
  • Cargill Corporation
  • The GROWMARK System Online - a system of agricultural supply and grain marketing cooperatives offering products under the FS brand.

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    Railroads

  • Union Pacific Railroad
  • Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  • CSX Transportation
  • Norfolk Southern
  • Kansas City Southern
  • CP RailFormerly the Soo Line.
  • Canadian National

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    Animal Health Firms

  • Elanco Animal Health - Manufacturer of Rumensin, Tylan, and Coban among other products.
  • Merck KG - Manufacturer of animal health products.

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    Crop Protection Firms

  • American Cyanamid
  • BASF Corporation
  • Ciba-Geigy AG - worldwide biological and chemical group in healthcare, agriculture, and industry management and news research & development and environmental protection.
  • Copesan -- integrated pest management.
  • Dow Chemical
  • Monsanto
  • Novartis
  • Zeneca LifeScience Molecules

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    Equipment Manufacturers

  • Deere and Company - Manufacturer of tractors, combines and tillage equipment.
  • AGCO - Manufacturer of Massey Ferguson, AGCO Allis, White, Hesston, Gleaner, agricultural equipment.
  • Case International - Manufacturer of tractors, combines and tillage equipment.
  • Caterpillar - Manufacturer of tracked agricultural equipment.
  • McGregor Company, Equipment Manufacturing Divison - producing quality field equipment used in the fertilizer and chemical application business
  • P & R Surge Systems, Inc. - Manufacturer of surge irrigation equipment.

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    Agricultural Cooperatives

  • Agway - Agricultural supply cooperative in the Northeast United States.
  • Cenex/Harvest States/Land O'Lakes - a joint marketing venture serving approximately 320,000 farmers and ranchers through 1,400 local cooperatives from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest and from the Canadian border to Oklahoma.
  • Calcot -- Marketing voice of 3,000 cotton growers. Major supplier of raw cotton to the world's textile mills. Innovator of cotton marketing and shipping methods.
  • Countrymark -- Countrymark Co-op markets food production supplies and services through 140 Member Co-ops in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. They provide 150,000 farmer owners with products and marketing alternatives in the areas of livestock production and nutrition, crops, energy, and grain marketing.
  • Darigold -- Darigold is a dairy processing coop located in WA, ID and OR. It's members are 820 dairy farmers in the PNW who ship milk to their 12 WestFarm Foods processing plants.
  • Northwest Dairy Association -- NDA is an integrated milk marketing and processing cooperative which includes Darigold.
  • Farmland Industries -- Farmland is the largest farmer-owned cooperative in North America, with sales in 1996 totaling $9.8 billion and reflecting business in all 50 states and with more than 70 countries.
  • Growmark - a system of agricultural supply and grain marketing cooperatives offering products under the FS brand.
  • Land O'Lakes
  • Mid-America Dairymen -- a milk marketing cooperative serving 18,000 dairy farm families in 32 states from coast to coast.
  • Milk Marketing, Inc. -- MMI is a cooperative of dairy producers engaged in providing customers with the highest quality milk, dairy products and value-added ingredients that have an amazingly wide range of food and industrial uses for consumers, today and tomorrow.
  • National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
  • Norbest -- The world's largest turkey marketing cooperative.
  • Southern States Cooperative, Inc -- Serves a wide variety of rural and urban customers in VA, MD, WV, KY, DE and NC. Its wholesale and retail networks provide feed, seed, fertilizer and production supplies; home and garden goods; petroleum and propane services; and grain marketing.
  • Sun Diamond Growers -- a service organization formed in 1980 which provides combined sales representation and support services to its five member cooperatives: Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc., Sun-Maid Growers of California, Sunsweet Growers Inc., Valley Fig Growers and Hazelnut Growers of Oregon - owned by 4,500 growers in total.

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    Food Processing Firms

  • ConAgra
  • Nabisco - Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers!
  • Dean Foods - Dairy, Vegetables, Pickles.
  • Perdue Farms - Quality Poultry since 1920.
  • Dole Corp. - Pineapples and other fruits.
  • Campbells Soups - Soup is good food.
  • Hersheys Chocolate - Chocolate, chocolate.
  • Pepsi Corp - Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and more.
  • Proctor and Gamble - Folgers coffee, Duncan Hines, Sunny Delight, Jif peanut butter, Pringles.
  • Kelloggs Corp. - U.S. market leader in breakfast cereals.
  • Pillsbury Corp - Pillsbury products include Green Giant, Old El Paso, Hungry Jack, Progresso and Haagen-Dazs.
  • Iowa Beef Processors -- Meat processing.
  • Chiquita - Bananas and more.

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    Food Distribution Firms

  • Kroger Co. - Largest U.S. grocery retailer.
  • Safeway
  • Albertsons

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    Ag E-Commerce

  • SourcingDirect.com - The Trading Exchange for Feed Additives and Food Ingredients.
  • E-Markets
  • Cybercrop.com
  • Farms.com
  • Internet Commodity Exchange
  • Profitable Farming site
  • XS Ag
  • DirectAg
  • 1stAg
  • AgriBiz
  • FortheFarm.com
  • PowerFarm.com
  • Rooster.com

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    Agribusiness Consulting Firms

  • The Agribusiness Group
  • Harvey A. Meier Co.

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    Other Links

  • Rabobank, International - Starting from its modest roots as a Dutch agrarian cooperative, Rabobank is a worldwide agribusiness bank.
  • Watt PublishingAn Agribusiness Publishing Co., with links to Feed, Poultry and Meat Processing Firms

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    Last Modified on Friday August 18, 2000 1:00 p.m.

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