Farming/Livestock

National Beef Packing Company Corporate Office

National Beef Packing Company was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1992. The company is a beef processor which produces fresh, chilled and further processed beef and beef by-products for consumers around the world. The company’s main focuses include branded box beef, consumer ready beef, portion control beef and wet blue leather.

The company is the 4th largest beef processor in the US, with annual revenue of more than $7 billion each year. Beef products are sold to supermarket chains, independent grocers, club stores, wholesalers and distributors, food service providers and distributors, other processing facilities, as well as the U.S. military. The company has the largest wet blue tannery in the world, making “raw” leather for thousands of manufacturers, who will turn the leather into shoes, clothing, furniture, and more.

National Beef Packing Company has two state of the art processing plants, one for commercial sales, the other for direct to consumer sales. Corporate offices are located in Kansas City, Missouri.

D&B Supply Corporate Office

Founded in 1959 by a pair of friends, Dutch and Budd started D&B Supply when they recognized an opportunity to service rural farmers in Idaho. The company started off by selling items for farmers, including batteries, tires, tractor parts, chemicals, and hardware.

Today, the company sells to both rural homeowners and farmers, as well as veterinary supplies. In addition to farming items, the company sells apparel and footwear, animal feed and tack for domestic pets and livestock, lawn and garden supplies, hardware, sporting goods, agricultural chemicals, fertilizers and other types of supplies.

D&B Supply has 10 locations in Idaho and Oregon. Headquarters remain in Caldwell, Idaho, where Dutch and Budd planned on staying for the night but opened a business instead.

Tennessee Farmers Cooperative Corporate Office

At the end of WWII, farmers in Tennessee decided they needed to form their own cooperative. The Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, in combination with 33 other county-owned associations, created the Tennessee Farmers Cooperative in Columbia, Tennessee. The coop later moved to LaVergne, Tennessee.

The coop (often referred to as Coop Feeds) is a federated agricultural supply cooperative. The company offers a wide range of farm and livestock products, including crop protection products, fertilizers, and seeds; animal health products, including antibiotics, animal identification products, cattle products, cattle vaccines, dairy products, equine products, goat and sheep products, human products, instruments, pet products, premise products, poultry products, and swine products. In addition, the company provides farming apparel and associated farm equipment.

Tennessee Farmers Cooperative services customers in Missouri, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Tennessee Farmers Cooperative maintains a corporate office in LaVergne, Tennessee.

Agri Supply Corporate Office

Agri Supply was founded in 1962 by Alvin Partlo. The company operates a small chain of farming, agriculture, and homesteading supplies.

Today, the company has 8 locations in 4 states, offering everything from big farm equipment to gardening gloves. Operating on a conservative financial basis, the company has managed to open stores and do well when others fail. CEO Barry Partlo states that he plans on opening a new location every 3 to 5 years. Agri Supply also has an active mail order catalog and eCommerce site, for those who do not live in the area.

Agri Supply has long term employees, some of whom have been with the company more than 30 years. Still others are second generation employees. The company has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 star rating with Google.

Rural King Corporate Office

Rural King Supply, simply referred to as Rural King, was founded in 1960. The company operates a chain of hardware, farming supplies, and home stores in 13 states.

The company is well known for offering free popcorn and coffee, in addition to the work boots, clothing, live animals, animal feed, tractor and trailer parts, as well as firearms and ammunition. The company also offers items for the homeowner, including lawn and garden supplies, sprinklers and/or irrigation parts, power tools, fencing, welding and pump supplies, and riding lawn mowers.

The coronavirus crisis and subsequent quarantine of 2020 has left both farmers, livestock owners, and homeowners, as well as employees in a quandry. Rural King Supply was considered to be a vital business and remained open.

Rural King Supply has 100 locations and three warehouses with more than 120,000 square feet of storage space. The company has an active eCommerce site, as well as a separate site which sells firearms. In December of 2015, the company announced that it had annual revenue of $1 billion.