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AgGeorgia Farm Credit is an agricultural lending cooperative owned by its over 4,700 member-borrowers, with a mission to improve the lives Georgia’s farmers, families, and rural communities. AgGeorgia specializes in ag lending with loan and lease products for farmers and agribusinesses. Leaders in poultry financing in Georgia, we finance growers and integrators. We are proud members of the nationwide Farm Credit System, established in 1916 to provide a dependable source of credit to farmers and rural America, and serve 79 counties in Georgia with 19 office locations.

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Aviagen broiler breeders supply day-old grandparent and parent stock chicks to customers under the Arbor Acres®, Indian River®, and Ross® brand names. These brands are among the most recognized and respected names in the industry and each has a proven record of success in addition to a large and loyal global customer base.

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We are the largest producer and distributor of shell eggs in the United States. Our mission is to be the most sustainable producer and reliable supplier of consistent, high quality fresh shell eggs and egg products in the country, demonstrating a “Culture of Sustainability” in everything we do, and creating value for our shareholders, customers, team members and communities.

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Since our founding in 1999, we have grown rapidly to become the sixth-largest animal health group globally. Ceva offers a growing line of products to meet the health needs of companion animals, poultry, and swine. Our expertise centers on the two fields of pharmacology and biology, where we have dedicated teams that aim to meet the specific demands of each species.

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For more than 50 years, Claxton Poultry has delivered on its promise to provide premium-quality, all-natural chicken arriving fresh from the farm to you every day. Our uncompromising standards, expansive line of products and exceptional service is why we’ve become one of the largest family-owned egg to market companies in the United States today.

Cobb-Vantress

Established in 1916, Cobb is the world’s oldest pedigree broiler breeding company. We are committed to building a sustainable future of chicken through the responsible use of technology, continual genetic progress and focusing on the needs of our customers across the globe. We understand our role in helping the feed the world and we are preparing for what tomorrow needs. Our business is driven by our core values of family, integrity, innovation and being the best. We treat each other and our customers like family. At Cobb, we believe doing the right thing is always the right choice.

Colonial Packaging

Colonial Packaging began its’ flexible packaging operations March of 1987 in Sumter, South Carolina. After a trip to colonial Williamsburg, VA, Bill Kaneft and his wife Jan were inspired to name their newly founded company after this historic town. Like our nation in its’ infancy, Colonial would have a strong bend towards independent ownership, be fairly small, personal, cohesive, and resilient.

We have continued to grow and expand from coast to coast since 1987, predominately in the food processing supply chain. Our operations consist of 15 full-time employees and several part-time workers. Colonial Packaging Inc.’s family atmosphere provides customers with quality products and competitive prices in a context of personal, responsive service.

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Founded in 1997, D&H Marketing Group has not forgotten its roots or its values. We are client-centered, relationship-focused and family-owned and operated. We deliver greater value to CPG and food manufacturers because we are more than a broker. We strive to be a partner and brand ambassador for each of our clients.

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Our world is growing. As population growth continues to rise and wealth increases, so does the demand for food, feed and fuel. Traditional resources are depleting and the demand for sustainable ingredients is growing. That’s where we come in. We are committed to help meet that demand, as we believe that nature has significantly more to offer than we currently use. We believe we can maximize the use of natural resources by continuously improving ourselves, our processes and our products.

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At Foodmate, we make it our goal to ensure you will have the most efficient equipment at your plant. Because of our commitment to being your go-to partner for poultry processing equipment. Our systems are designed to be simple to use and achieve the highest yields. The better you are able to optimize your yields; the more profit you’ll be able to make.

Today, over 100 years later, Forcum Lannom continues to be a privately-owned nationally recognized contractor that specializes in fast-track design and construction of manufacturing and distribution facilities. Our people represent the spirit and culture within our organization. Our purpose is building partnerships with our clients, creating superior design and construction solutions and transforming our client’s visions into reality. Our past demonstrates our commitment to Cost, Schedule, Quality and Safety.

As a Southern Company, our company culture is rooted in Our Values – safety first, unquestionable trust, superior performance and total commitment. We believe that working together and treating one another with integrity is an important part of our commitment to our customers.

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Our mission is to provide the greatest value possible to our customers. We do this by driving continuous innovation, structuring the organization to ensure flexibility and nimbleness, a relentless management of costs, and maintaining a crystal clear vision of our customers and what they value. We measure success in this mission by exceeding our customers’ expectations and providing our employees a rewarding and challenging work environment.

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Since 1958, we are a family oriented company taking pride in producing distinctive poultry products that are distributed globally. We are committed to making our company sustainable financially, environmentally and socially. Harrison Poultry, Inc. serves our community with respect, integrity and with the highest work ethic. Continually striving for excellence with honor, we are dedicated to building on the Harrison legacy for future generations.

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For more than 60 years, House of Raeford has grown by focusing on freshness, quality, and fast delivery of our products. We raise our own birds to produce a full line of chicken products. Period. Nothing to distract us from doing what we do best.

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We’ve been strategically building a team of industry experts with decades of genuine experience – both in the animal health field and on farms across the U.S. They haven’t just been trained to understand the business, they live the lifestyle and understand all the obstacles, success and passion that come with it.

We are one of the world’s leading producers of fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper. We are committed to strengthening our people and the communities where we live and work using all resources responsibly and efficiently, and ensuring our businesses are safe, successful and sustainable for generations to come.

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Koch Foods is proud to be one of the largest poultry processors in the United States. We focus on providing the highest quality products and unmatched service throughout the poultry growing, manufacturing and distribution processes. Our vast resources, vertically integrated capabilities and continual success in providing our partners with customized solutions have made us an industry leader.

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Mar-Jac Poultry is a fully integrated poultry processor committed to the food service industry. This integration affords us total quality process control throughout the production process from the farm to the table. With our sales efforts focused squarely on the food service industry, our mission is to provide the highest quality product with an absolute commitment to service.

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Marel is the leading global supplier of innovative inline poultry processing equipment for broilers, turkeys and ducks, providing solutions for all process stages and all capacity levels. The product range includes top quality equipment for live bird handling, up to evisceration, giblet harvesting and processing, chilling, grading, cut-up, deboning, bone detection, portioning, batching, end-product logistics, software solutions and service contracts.

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We’re food safety experts. We’re a team that’s committed to protecting the quality of your products, the integrity of your brand and the well-being of your customers. Whether you’re an FDA, USDA or CFIA operation, we promise you nothing less than total protection.

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Perdue Farms is a fourth-generation, family owned U.S. food and agricultural company. We were founded on trust—a value that carries through everything we do. Through our two operating divisions, Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness, we’re making steps every day toward our goal of becoming the most trusted name in food and agricultural products. Our path forward is about getting better, not just bigger.

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Pilgrim's, Gainesville

Pilgrim’s is a leading global provider of high-quality food products, including well-recognized brands and value-added premium products. As one of the world’s largest poultry Pilgrim’s has provided wholesome, quality products to customers and consumers for more than seven decades.

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Rendering transforms raw material into valuable, useful products and keeps it out of landfills.  This further positions Tyson to meet the global demand for animal protein, while striving to sustainably feed the world with the fastest growing protein brands. It also provides us with value-added outlets for by-products, which are used to make a wide variety of materials, including feed ingredients for pets, farm animals and aquaculture.

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Headquartered in Laurel, Mississippi, Sanderson Farms is a Fortune 1000 company engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh and frozen chicken and other prepared food items. Sanderson Farms, Inc. maximizes stockholder value by being a successful producer and marketer of high-quality food products and providing superior service to the food industry.

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Springer Mountain Farms is a family-owned business nestled in the hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains with over 50 years of experience in raising chickens. We exercise great care in all that we do, and our dedication to providing our chickens with a quality life and healthy diet results in a healthier, more delicious chicken for you and your family to enjoy.

Tip-Top Poultry

As a processor of breeders, the heart of Tip Top is to provide great service to the industry. To us, service means the giving of ourselves to meet the needs of others. Leaders at Tip Top put aside their own ambitions to serve their team members who are in turn empowered to serve the Georgia Poultry industry with the best service and highest value available.

Tyson Foods

We built our name on providing generations of families with wholesome, great-tasting chicken. But today’s Tyson Foods is so much more. As values and behaviors around food have changed, so have we. Today, we’re innovators uniquely positioned to reshape what it means to feed our world.

Wayne Farms

Wayne Farms is among the largest chicken producers in the United States, with annual sales exceeding $2.2 billion dollars. We provide choices to our customers as diverse as the consumers they serve.

Our premium fresh and prepared products meet the specific needs of our customers in foodservice, retail, and export. Produced in 11 facilities, our product portfolio includes those claiming No Antibiotics Ever and GAP animal welfare certifications, under the brand names of WAYNE FARMS®, and PLATINUM HARVEST®; LADYBIRD™, NAKED TRUTH®, and CHEF’S CRAFT®. Because we succeed when our customers succeed. Together, we make chicken amazing.

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