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| HEADQUARTERS Kansas City, MO |
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| PRESIDENT Michael E. Brown |
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| EMPLOYEES 9,200 |
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| FISCAL 2011 SALES $4.0 billion1 |
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Farmland Foods, Inc., provides a broad selection of pork products for retail and foodservice customers in the United States and abroad. Its primary lines of business include fresh pork, case ready pork, hams, bacon, fresh sausage, processed sausage, lunchmeat, and specialty sausage. Since its founding in 1959, Farmland Foods has maintained a proud heritage of working side by side with American farm families. Smithfield Foods acquired the company in 2003. Farmland Foods has a large and growing international business, exporting products to more than 35 countries across six continents.
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Major Brands
Farmland, Cook’s, Ember Farms, Premium Farms, Stefano Foods
Facilities
Cumming, GA; Monmouth, IL; Carroll and Denison, IA; Wichita, KS; Kansas City and Milan, MO; Crete and Lincoln, NE; Charlotte, NC; Arnold, PA; Salt Lake City, UT
- Received American Meat Institute’s Environmental Excellence Award (Tier IV), the highest level offered, at 10 facilities
- Awarded more than $450,000 in employee college tuition reimbursement
- Installed 74 high-efficiency double waterers in Monmouth facility’s hog pens, eliminating open troughs and saving 26.5 million gallons of clean water annually
- Installed a closed-loop water system at Denison facility that supplies heat in batch cookers to allow for water reuse. This project saves 7.66 decatherms of energy per hour and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2,000 tons annually.
- Provided over 850 dry tons of biosolids from Crete and Denison facilities to farmer fields to help with fertilization and development of crops
- Installed blood pressure kiosks at all facilities and in the corporate office
- Recycled 6,800 tons of cardboard annually, conserving 115,600 trees
