Farmland Industries was the largest agricultural cooperative in North America when it declared bankruptcy in 2002.
The Farmland brand and its slogan "Good Food From the Heartland" is now owned by Smithfield Foods. While owned by Smithfield Foods, Farmland Foods, Inc. operates independently and continues to market meat products under the Farmland brand.
It was founded 1929 by Howard A. Cowden as the Union Oil Company (as a successor to Cowden Oil ...
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Farmland Industries was the largest agricultural cooperative in North America when it declared bankruptcy in 2002.
The Farmland brand and its slogan "Good Food From the Heartland" is now owned by Smithfield Foods. While owned by Smithfield Foods, Farmland Foods, Inc. operates independently and continues to market meat products under the Farmland brand.
It was founded 1929 by Howard A. Cowden as the Union Oil Company (as a successor to Cowden Oil Company which he founded the year before). In 1935 it took the name Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA), and in 1966 Farmland Industries, Inc.
At its peak, the organization was the largest agricultural cooperative in North America, owned by 1,700 farm cooperatives in the United States, Canada and Mexico, which cooperatives were in turn owned by more than 600,000 farmer families. It had 16,000 employees in all 50 states and 90 countries. In 1977 it ranked #78 on the Fortune 100 company list. In 2001, its annual revenues were in excess of ...
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