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- Smithfield wins bidding war for pork operation.(Brief Article)
- Hog farmer and pork processor Smithfield Foods Inc. was selected in a bankruptcy court auction to purchase Farmland Industries Inc.'s pork business, known as Farmland Foods, reported The Virginian-Pilot (Oct. 14). Smithfield will pay $367.4 million in cash for the operation and will assume pension payments...
- Research articles 2003-10-20
- Smithfield Executive Sees End to Deals in Meat Industry.
- By Mark Kawar, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 17--Consolidation in the meat industry is over now after a flurry of purchases over the last two years, said C. Larry Pope, president and chief operating officer of Smithfield Foods Inc....
- Research articles 2003-07-17
- Bankruptcy of Kansas City, Mo.-Based Farm Cooperative Affects Entire Industry.
- By Thomas Lee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 23--The story of Farmland Industries Inc. is not too dissimilar from other American companies whose zealous pursuit of expansion eventually led to financial ruin. But Farmland's investors, customers...
- Research articles 2002-06-23
- Nebraska Agriculture Community Feeling Impact of Farm Cooperative's Bankruptcy.
- By Bill Hord, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 24--CRETE, Neb.--The bankruptcy of Farmland Industries Inc., even though it is designed to reorganize the country's largest farm cooperative rather than close it, is causing a lot of fidgeting in ...
- Research articles 2002-06-24
- Farmland Industries Inc. of Kansas City has rejected an offer from Smithfield Foods Inc
- Farmland Industries Inc. of Kansas City has rejected an offer from Smithfield Foods Inc. of Smithfield, Va., the nation's largest pork producer, to buy its beef and pork business. Farmland, the nation's largest farmer-owned cooperative, was having problems paying $10 million on a $500 million credit facility negotiated in February....
- Research articles 2002-06-03
- Smithfield renews its interest in Farmland.(Smithfield Foods Inc., Farmland Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
- Smithfield Foods, Inc., the No. 1 pork producer in the U.S., confirmed on May 31 that it renewed its offer to acquire the meat operations of cash-starved Farmland Industries Inc., the largest U.S. farmer-owned cooperative. The Smithfield, VA-based company stated that it would help Farmland meet...
- Research articles 2002-06-03
- Ammonia Plants Idled in Face of Wilting Demand.
- SEVERAL MAJOR North American ammonia producers are unexpectedly curtailing some of their ammonia and urea production this summer, citing over-capacity, and low demand caused by adverse weather conditions and depressed crop prices. Natural gas prices leveled off in April at $5 per million BTUs and have...
- Research articles 2001-06-18
- [ Biz Notes ]
- biz notes - USDA to use alternative fuel for heating --- As the country faces a winter with tight supplies of home heating oil, some U.S. Department of Agriculture employees in Beltsville, Md., as well as nearby dairy cows, will stay warm this winter with biodiesel fuel,...
- Research articles 2000-11-05
- Kansas City, Mo., Agricultural Cooperative Makes Feed-Operations Deal.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16 -- Farmland Industries Inc. and merger partner Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives plan to form a joint venture company with Land O'Lakes to own and run the three co-ops' feed operations. Land O'Lakes in Arden Hills, Minn.,...
- Research articles 1999-11-15
- Farming Cooperatives to Form Seed-Marketing Venture.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 16 -- Farmland Industries Inc. and two large Minnesota farm-supply cooperatives said they intend to form a marketing joint venture early next year that would add farm crop seeds to other agricultural production supplies they sell jointly. ...
- Research articles 1999-10-15
- Missouri Companies Plan Alliance for Making, Marketing Livestock Feed.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 6--Farmland Industries Inc. of Kansas City and MFA Inc. of Columbia are close to forming a feed manufacturing and marketing alliance that would serve the Missouri livestock industry. The two organizations said Monday that they were studying...
- Research articles 1998-10-05
- Farm co-ops create energy alliance. (Cenex Inc and Farmland Industries Inc form energy alliance to serve rural markets)
- St. Paul, MN-based Cenex Inc and Kansas City, KS-based Farmland Industries Inc formed an energy alliance to sell refined fuels, propane and lubricants in the northwest and southern rural markets. The alliance, which does not involve the companies' refinerSt. Paul, MN-based Cenex Inc and Kansas City, KS-based Farmland Industries Inc...
- Research articles 1998-06-01
- Farmland announces FY97 first quarter financial results
- KANSAS CITY, Mo.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 8, 1997--Farmland Industries Inc. announces that its fiscal 1997 first quarter operations (Sept. 1, 1996 through Nov. 30, 1996) resulted in consolidated sales of $2.39 billion, an increase of more than ten percent over the same period in the year prior. The increase...
- Research articles 1997-01-08
- Cleberg: positioning Farmland for the 21st century
- KANSAS CITY, Mo.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 30, 1994--H.D. Cleberg, president and chief executive officer of Farmland Industries Inc., said during his "State of Farmland Address" that the farmer-owned regional cooperative experienced a year of significant progress in 1994. Speaking Wednesday to a crowd of about 3,000 at the general...
- Research articles 1994-11-30
- Inside the top 50 American companies - food companies - The Leading 150
- 1 Philip Morris, New York Chairman, CEO: Michael Miles 1992 sales: $33 billion Core companies/brands: Kraft General Foods, Miller Brewing, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Post, Maxwell House, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Philadelphia Brand, Louis Rich, Sealtest, Breyers, Budget Gourmet, Knudsen, Lender's, Birds Eye, Tombstone, Seven Seas, Minute Rice, Claussen, Bull's Eye, Parkay, Entenmann's,...
- Research articles 1993-07-01
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- Farmland Industries, Inc.(receives approval for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization petition)(Brief Article)
- * Farmland Industries, Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for its first day pleadings under a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The approvals include allowing Farmland to begin using $306 million of debto * Farmland Industries, Inc. has received approval from...
- Research articles 2002-06-10
- Even partners get sapped; a company and a consulting firm set up a joint venture to make technology pay off. (Farmland Industries Inc. joins with Ernst & Young to install SAP enterprise-integration so
- 00-00-0000 Few companies have gone to the lengths that Farmland Industries Inc. has in trying to ensure that its information technology remains on tract to support the giant agribusiness' goals. In fact, Farmland, a $9 billion regional cooperative h 00-00-0000 Few companies have...
- Research articles 1998-03-02
- Farmland sells phosphate plant. (Breaking News - Roundup).(Farmland Industries Inc. sells Joplin, MO, plant to Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan)(Brief Article)
- Farmland Industries Inc. has agreed to sell its Joplin, Mo., phosphate plant to Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. Terms of the deal were not ... Farmland Industries Inc. has agreed to sell its Joplin, Mo., phosphate plant to Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. Terms...
- Research articles 2002-03-04
- Farmland, Cytec Idle Ammonia.(Farmland Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
- FARMLAND INDUSTRIES Inc. has indefinitely closed its Pollack, La., ammonia plant, effective April 1. The decision to idle the facility, which has a capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year, was "a business decision based on the market status.& FARMLAND INDUSTRIES Inc. has indefinitely...
- Research articles 2001-04-09
- How Farmland plans growth in retail gasoline market. (Farmland Industries Inc., includes related article)
- By Peggy Smedley Staff Reporter and Donald M. Smith Senior Editor While many major oil companies have to a great extent pulled out of the rural retail market, Farmland Industries, Inc., is in the midst of an aggressive expansion program to sow that By...
- Research articles 1988-10-01
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