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JBS USA, Five Rivers and Texas Beef Producers Sustainable Beef Pilot Project

JBS USA Beef

JBS USA, Texas Beef Producers and 79 feedyard partners tested the applicability of the USRSB feedyard metrics at scale. The pilot project achieved 100 percent completion rate of the metric questions for over 2.9 million head of cattle from more than 90 feedyards – representing 56 percent of JBS USA’s fed cattle supply.

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Ingredient and Packaging Suppliers Workshop

Pilgrim’s Mexico

In 2018, the Pilgrim’s Mexico team hosted a workshop with their ingredient and packaging suppliers to discuss various opportunities and strengthen relationships.

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Burns Family Farm

Pilgrim’s USA

In 2010, Jamey Burns and his wife Julie began their family farm. With the assistance of an excel spreadsheet and admirable attention to detail, they successfully planned each detail of their future poultry farm raising chickens for Pilgrim’s in Carroll County, GA. Two retired military veterans with more than 40 years of combined service –…

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Grass Run Farms Family Farm Partner: Ryan and Kristine Jepsen

JBS USA Beef

Ryan and Kristine Jepsen founded Grass Run Farms in Decorah, IA, in 2008 and have continued to supply cattle for the brand since. They founded Grass Run Farms on careful management and sustainable stewardship. For 10 years, they have remained a primary supplier for the 100 percent grass fed program.

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Great Southern Family Farm Partner: Karn Station

JBS Australia

Tim Stokes manages the 3,500-acre Karn Station in Benalla, North East Victoria, which supplies livestock to our Great Southern Program in Australia. “We need to be able to show the consumer what happens on the farm to ensure that livestock have been grown and managed in a natural environment. To most farmers this is an…

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The Bar-G Feedyard

JBS USA Beef

Many might describe Bar-G Feedyard as Independent to the core. Majority owner, Johnny Trotter, has been feeding cattle in the Texas Panhandle since 1983. Through the relationships they’ve fostered over the years, Bar-G has grown from its 45,000 head to one-time capacity to present day 125,000. In the last several years they’ve marketed over 200,000…

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Blue Ribbon Angus Beef Family Farm Partner: Willow Creek Farms

JBS USA Beef

Willow Creek Farms is a captivating Idaho ranch in the shadows of the mountains along the winding Snake River. Once you’ve been there, you don’t want to leave. Just ask Willow Creek’s owner, Chris Drakos, who has farmed potatoes and raised cattle there for decades. “My father was a farmer, and I’ve been a farmer…

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Blue Ribbon Angus Family Ranch Partner: Riverbend Ranch

JBS USA Beef

At Riverbend Ranch in Idaho Falls, ID, it’s all about family. The passion, the dedication, the respect for the animals and the love of the land starts with owners Frank and Belinda VanderSloot and how their values create the right atmosphere for producing the best Angus beef. “Family is an important part of the culture…

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Triple G Farm

Pilgrim’s USA

Clark and Janice Garner are family farm partners to our Carrollton, GA, Complex. Garner has been a poultry farm owner for two years and has built four state-of-the-art 66′ x 600′ foot chicken houses, where he grows 60,000 chickens per house and produces six to seven flocks annually. The young couple lives in a house…

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1855 Black Angus Beef Family Ranch Partner: The Pawnee Springs Ranch

JBS USA Beef

At the wheel of his pickup truck, driving the perimeter of the Pawnee Springs Ranch, Ranch Manager Steve Boeshart shared his passion for producing quality Angus cattle. “Ranching is a lifestyle. It’s not a job—it’s a way of life,” Boeshart said. “And it is a lot of fun.” When you raise the exceptional cattle that…

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