Arkansas Health Food Companies

Mountaire Farms, Inc.
Mountaire Farms and its sister subsidiary, Mountaire Farms of Delaware, operate poultry hatcheries and processing plants in Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina. The company, which is owned by Mountaire Corp., produces fresh and frozen poultry and value-added chicken products for wholesale, foodservice, private-label food, and retail food customers. It sells its chicken products throughout the US and internationally. Mountaire makes livestock feed and pet food, which it sells under the Prime Quality label. The company also operates grain elevators in Maryland and Delaware, which handle corn, soybeans, wheat, and barley.
204 E 4th St.
North Little Rock, AR 72114
Phone: 501-372-6524
Fax: 501-372-3972

Peterson Farms, Inc.
Peterson Farms sees the big picture in chicken production. The fully integrated poultry company operates hatcheries, a feed mill, and a processing facility, which produces some 5 million pounds of chicken every week (nearly 300 million pounds a year), which are sold to the retail and foodservice industries throughout the US. Peterson Farms LP Gas Company provides propane gas to heat poultry farmers' chicken houses in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Peterson's L&L Farms is a smaller branch that has developed a distinct breed of cattle: Peterson's Polled Santa Gertrudis. The company also runs a general store in Decatur, Arkansas. But frozen chicken parts are the company's chief business.
250 S. Main St.
Decatur, AR 72722
Phone: 479-752-5000
Fax: 479-752-5660

Riceland Foods, Inc.
Riceland Foods is ingrained in the marketing and milling business. In existence in 1921, the agricultural cooperative markets rice, soybeans, and wheat grown by its 9,000 member-owners, who farm in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. As one of the world's leading millers of rice, it sells long-grain, brown, wild, flavored rices, and rice-based meal kits (under the Riceland name as well as private labels) to grocery, foodservice, and food manufacturing customers. The co-op also sells edible oil and shortening products and processes soybeans, bran, edible oils, and lecithin. Riceland markets its products throughout the US, as well as in more than 75 countries internationally.
2120 S. Park Ave.
Stuttgart, AR 72160
Phone: 870-673-5500
Fax: 870-673-3366

Tyson Foods, Inc.
Think of Tyson Foods as an 800-pound chicken -- with a bullish attitude. Already the largest chicken producer (with 53 processing plants), Tyson's purchase of beef and pork giant IBP Fresh Meats made it the largest meat-processing company in the world, serving retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers in the US and more than 80 countries overseas. In addition to fresh meats, Tyson produces processed and pre-cooked meats, refrigerated and frozen prepared foods, and animal feeds. Its chicken operations are vertically integrated -- the company hatches the eggs and then supplies contracted growers with chicks and feed. Former company chairman Don Tyson is the controlling owner of the company.
2210 W. Oaklawn Dr.
Springdale, AR 72762
Phone: 479-290-4000
Fax: 479-290-4061