Farmland Industries

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Farmland Industries was founded 1929 by Howard A. Cowden as the Union Oil Company. In 1935 it took the name Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA), and in 1966 Farmland Industries, Inc.

At its peak, the organization was the largest agricultural cooperative, owned by 1,700 farm cooperatives themselves owned by 600,000 farmer-owners, providing both agricultural supply and marketing services ranging from fertilizer manufacture, feeds, shipping, etc. It was a Fortune 500 company.

The cooperative entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2002, and sold two subsidiaries: Farmland Foods, Inc., the pork processing division to Smithfield Foods for $367M, and Farmland National Beef Packing Company to US Premium Beef for $232M.

It was based in Kansas City, Missouri

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