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Sustainable Strategies, Advisors in food and agriculture provides sustainable development strategies and organic consulting services to companies, organizations, governments and countries, worldwide. Bob Anderson is a recognized authority on all aspects of organic agriculture, organic processing, organic certification and animal welfare. Sustainable Strategies also provides counsel and strategies in marketing, government relations and international trade. He serves as an advisor to the US Secretary of Agriculture, USDA NOP & Foreign Agriculture Service, U.S. Department of State and OTA. Prior to 2000, he was president of Walnut Acres Organic Farms, one of the founding and most respected organic foods businesses in the United States.

Manufacturer of SUSTANE Fertilizers. Proven natural organic agricultural and horticultural products since 1987. Worldwide distribution & technical support for organically grown foods, fibers, and grass crops.

For 25 years Suzannes' Specialties has been a leading supplier of organic sweeteners.
Suzanne's Specialties, Inc. is a producer and packer of naturally-sweetened grain-based products. In 2004, we celebrated our 20th anniversary in the health-food industry. We continue to grow as a company dedicated to suiting the needs of individuals and companies looking for great-tasting alternatives to refined sweeteners. Our products are available in both retail and industrial quantities, with packaging that meets our customers' requirements.

Based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Sweet Additions was established in 2004 with a vision is to create innovative natural organic food ingredients for the food and beverage industry while promoting individual wellness and supporting the sustainability of our planet.

Today many of the largest and most well-known manufacturers of packaged foods and drinks utilize a variety of our ingredients for a broad range of applications. These include cane sugars, maltodextrins, syrup solids and syrups made from rice, tapioca, and oat.

Sweet Additions’ approach to customer solutions is guided by the expertise in the products we market. We understand our ingredients and the applications where they perform best. We also have the flexibility to customize many of our ingredients to optimize our customers’ product performance.

We are an ingredient company that produces and markets natural and organic sweeteners to food and beverage manufacturers.

Our ingredient offering includes a wide selection of innovative starch derivatives and sweeteners that provide solutions to manufacturers seeking natural alternatives without compromising functionality and quality.

Our team is committed to developing sweeteners that promote wellness, appeal to consumers and target the fastest growing segments in the food industry; all while integrating sustainable practices that limit our impact on the planet’s natural resources.

Whether launching a new product or reformulating an existing one, Sweet Additions has the sweetener to achieve the desired profile, intensity and texture for your next project.

Grower for CROPP

SWIM USA is a family owned and operated swimwear company established in 1936. We are a global industry leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of branded, licensed, and private label swimwear.

At SWIM USA, our core values are:
• Continuous quality improvement
• 100% customer satisfaction
• Cutting-edge product innovation
• Advancement in sustainability
• Supply-chain-wide social responsibility

Our company designs some of the most well- known brands in women’s swimwear. Created using the most innovative silhouettes and styles to give every woman her desired swim look. Our passion lies in our prints and solids. Always delivering the most unique and form-flattering swimsuits to all body shapes and sizes. We’re about providing comfort and confidence to every customer. Learn more about each of our luxurious brands to see which suits your swim needs the best.

Tanimura & Antle is an industry leader whose commitment to premium quality produce has remained strong since it’s beginning in 1982.

The Tanimura & Antle families combined their collective years of experience and knowledge to establish a produce company unrivaled in its quality products, innovation and dedication.

Today, Tanimura & Antle farms over 30,000 acres of rich, fertile farmland and ships a full line of premium fresh produce throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

In the past, people turned to a few trusted sources—like their doctor—for health information. Today, they’re bombarded by advice from 24/7 news cycles and self-proclaimed influencers with questionable credentials.

At Taste for Life, we’re committed to cutting through the noise. We value research, fact-checking, and transparent sourcing—long-standing editorial standards we combine with modern omnichannel content delivery.

Our solutions—delivered through print magazines, digital platforms, and in-store tools—make it easy for brands and retailers to connect with wellness-minded consumers through trustworthy, engaging content.

Our story began several decades ago on the Greek island of Crete, where founder Jim Connell was inspired by the longevity and vitality of the locals. That experience sparked the creation of Taste for Life and remedies magazines and tasteforlife.com, all rooted in evidence-based natural health insights.

Since then, we’ve partnered with businesses nationwide to drive awareness, trust, and results. Our retail partners report product movement increases of 20% to 50% after leveraging our content.

Today’s consumers are seeking credible information on regenerative agriculture, organics, supplements, clean eating, herbs, and sustainability. They’re endlessly curious about a wide range of dietary approaches and remedies to help them optimize their health. Taste for Life’s expansive library of articles and recipes helps you meet that demand and support your customers’ wellness journey—without breaking your marketing budget.

Work with us to deliver accurate, research-backed wellness content where your customers are already looking—online, in print, and in-store.

Learn more at https://tasteforlife.com and https://www.tasteforlife.com/retail-marketing/custom

For over 160 years we’ve been leading the way in developing extraordinary ingredients for diverse industries that help our partners respond to changing consumer needs and retain their competitive edge, locally and globally.

We draw our inspiration from three key ingredients: our purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food; our technical expertise and deep understanding of the food and beverage market; and our portfolio of high-quality ingredient solutions.

Blend them all together, and we’ve got the right recipe to help manufacturers deliver on sweetness, mouthfeel, fortification as well as texture and stability to create products enjoyed by millions of people every day.

Working with our customers, we reduce calories, sugar and fat in their products, and add fibre and protein, to make people’s favourite foods even better.

Our purpose is simple: to help people all over the world make healthier and tastier food and drink choices, whilst supporting our communities and caring for our planet, not just today but for the future.

We create high-value speciality ingredients and solutions that meet growing global consumer demand for healthier, tastier and more sustainable food and drink.

We work with customers to:

use our low and no-calorie sweeteners to help remove millions of tonnes of sugar from people’s diets

add gut-friendly fibres that provide health benefits

use texturants to create smooth or crunchy, creamy or airy products

stabilise foods to keep every mouthful delicious for weeks

Taylor Bros. Farms, a third generation fully integrated organic family farm, growing and processing dried prunes/plums and prune products. We process prunes for pitting, whole, juice concentrate, powder and puree.

Taylor Farms is a leader in innovation. Dedicated to being North America’s favorite maker of salad and healthy fresh foods, Taylor Farms focuses on innovation by consistently developing new products and improving production methods. Taylor Farms is grounded in a commitment to quality with products harvested, packaged and shipped at the peak of freshness.

Teeccino is the best selling coffee substitute in America.

Wholesale vegetable and herb grower and herb seeds sales.

Organic seed of many vegetable varieties, excellent selections for organic market production.

With a vast network of 250 county Extension offices and some 900 professional educators, the expertise provided by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is available to every resident in every Texas county.

Extension works with a variety of partners — individuals, businesses, private-sector clubs and organizations, and other government agencies — to bring educational opportunities to the people of Texas. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with new partners to improve the quality of life for Texans across the state.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offers a diverse array of educational programs, activities, and resources. These range from self-study activities to programs that you can attend. No matter the name, Extension programs are based on objective, research-based, practical information that you can use today. Listed below are the departments, programs, units and institutes that make up the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC) members produce the majority of the organic cotton grown in the United States. Most of these organic farmers are located in the South Plains region surrounding Lubbock, Texas, and are certified by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA).

The cooperative has approximately 40 producer members who plant 10-19,000 acres of organic and transitional cotton each year. In recent years, total annual production on these family farms has ranged from 6,000 to 15,000 bales. Since many of these farms have limited or no irrigation, yields are very rainfall dependent and vary significantly from year to year.

TOCMC members grow other organic crops including peanuts, wheat, corn, blue corn, milo, forage sorghum, soybeans, blackeye peas, and watermelons. Also, the cotton seed, which is separated from the cotton fiber in the ginning process, is marketed to organic dairies for feed.

Textile Exchange is a global nonprofit organization that works to make the textile industry more sustainable. We work with everyone involved in making your textiles, including everything from clothes to sheets to towels and more. Together, we’re trying to help the textile world make better decisions so that we’re not only reducing harm to the environment but also bringing about positive change. We identify and share best practices regarding farming, materials and processing so we can reduce the impact on the world’s water, soil, air and human population.
Incorporated in 2002, Textile Exchange works closely with our members and textile industry stakeholders along the entire $1.7 trillion value cycle. TE is headquartered in the US with staff and ambassadors located in eleven countries.

Companies join Textile Exchange because they want to be more sustainable. That can mean they’re brand new to environmentally-conscious practices or they can be further along the sustainability process and want to take things to the next level.

Textile Exchange can provide an initial top-level sustainability assessment for a company in order to develop a long-term plan toward a more sustainable future. This work includes verifying steps of the supply chain in order to demonstrate how the material is sourced and/or grown, processed and manufactured. We work with companies to determine the best fibers and materials to use. We help companies formally trace the integrity of their materials and manufacturing processes so textiles can be properly labeled.

The Country Hen, located in Hubbardston, MA, supplies supermarkets across the United States with the first commercially produced Organic, Omega-3 enriched egg. George Bass started the farm in 1988, with a goal of using the highest quality organic commodities to produce the world’s best egg. We mill all of our organic feed right here at the farm, exclusively for our hens. This proprietary feed formula produces a large egg with 300 mg of Omega-3s, including LNA, EPA, & DHA, as well as high amounts of Lutein and Choline. We truly understand that only the happiest and healthiest hens will produce the superior quality of our eggs, so we pamper our hens and let them roam freely through spacious, sunlit barns with outdoor porches attached.

For over 100 years, our goal at The DeLong Co., Inc. has been to provide information, products and services to the farming industry. In addition to being a grain elevator and major supplier of food grains domestically and internationally, we also provide seed, fertilizer and chemical inputs and services for growers in Wisconsin and Illinois. We offer delivery and storage of feed grains and seed products and also sell feed and seed manufactured for use in livestock feeds, pet foods and wild bird seeds at our mill in Clinton, WI. The DeLong Co. operates two warehouses that are used to wholesale and distribute various feed and pet products to dealers in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.

At the time our business was founded, the principal crops grown by our customers were hay, wheat, oats, barley, malting barley and corn. Over a long period of time, our business has adapted and moved to fill the needs of local farmers. Corn became the dominant cash crop in our region and we began providing feed concentrates specially formulated for various types of livestock. We also added corn drying facilities, soybean facilities and more recently, vegetable and specialty Identity Preserved crop programs to our business.

Headquartered in Clinton, Wisconsin, our business operates locations around the U.S. and comprises five divisions of agricultural sales and service: agronomy, grain, seed, wholesale distribution and transportation. The DeLong Co., Inc. remains a family owned and managed organization. Current board of directors are 4th generation and our shareholders are 4th, 5th and 6th generation direct descendants of William E. DeLong. Fifteen DeLong family members of the 4th and 5th generation are employed within the company.

EL DRAGON is a family company leading in
exporting fresh organic fruits.
El Dragon is owned by its producers since it births.
This is our greatest asset!

We are a committed company to caring for the environment, with sustainable agricultural criteria.
All our activities are framed in conserving, protecting and improving natural resources.

We have developed a method to utilize natural microbes to improve plants’ nutrient availability. We have our own bio-input factory that allows us to keep the highest standards with a focus on the overall environmental benefits of organic farming. Supporting organic farming also supports and environment that is free of pesticides an chemicals, the cultivation of healthy soil, natural habits and water supplies, and it encourages biodiversity through a reduced carbon footprint.