Vice President, Management Center for Agriculture
Farmland Industries was the leading agricultural cooperative in North America, owned by 1,700 farm in the United States, Canada and Mexico, which cooperatives were in turn owned by more than 600,000 farmer families. Farmland provided both agricultural supply and marketing services ranging from petroleum refining, fertilizer manufacture, feeds, shipping, crop production, livestock production, and refrigerated foods sales and marketing. (currently owned by Smithfield Foods)