(FAS 2012) The United States imports a notably small percentage of turkey meat ($31.8 million in 2012), mostly from Chile and Canada.
The company has grown to become one of the largest privately owned businesses, providing food, agricultural, risk management, financial, and industrial products and services around the globe.
[5] Mary Thompson was tapped to lead the company's European poultry business as president of Cargill Value Added Meats.
The production facility is situated on 114 acres (46 hectares), two miles (three kilometers) east of Huron, South Dakota.
[10] Farbest Foods is one of the largest turkey companies in the United States and a respected leader in the industry.
It co-operates with domestic and foreign markets, shipping up to two million pounds of fresh and frozen turkey products every day.
The company specializes in a variety of chicken and turkey products advertised as fresh and naturally locally grown.
Hain Pure Protein Corporation owns and operates poultry processing facilities with Joseph A. DePippo at the head.
[14] Hain Pure Protein Corporation is a leader in growing natural, antibiotic-free poultry produced under well-known brands that include FreeBird and Epicurean Farms.
[15] House of Raeford Farms, Inc. is a family-owned, fully integrated poultry company with processing facilities located throughout the southeastern United States.
[18] Jaindl Turkey Farms is the largest independent agricultural operation in the Lehigh Valley, located in Orefield, Pennsylvania.
It is the oldest cooperative organization of its type in the world, and is one of the top turkey-marketing firms in the United States.
Norbest products are sold throughout the United States and Pacific Rim countries, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
[26] Northern Pride, Inc is a grower-owned turkey processing facility located in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
The cooperative was formed in 1989 by independent turkey growers throughout northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
[30] Now, it is leading poultry producer in the northeast United States and the second-largest across the nation, and Perdue Farms Inc. sells chicken and turkey products through retail venues and to foodservice companies in the United States and in more than 30 countries worldwide.
[32] Today, Prestage Farms and its affiliates produce in excess of one billion pounds of turkey and pork annually.
[34] West Liberty Foods, LLC is an American meat-processing company owned by the Iowa Turkey Growers Cooperative and formed in 1996[35] by a group of Iowa turkey growers,[36] and now owns four meat processing plants.