Since the construction of the company’s first grain-receiving facility in Salisbury, MD., in 1960, Perdue AgriBusiness has focused on bringing value to the farm gate — recognizing that viable crop farms are essential to our company’s supply chain.
While our business has grown significantly in size and scope, we remain focused on helping farmers increase the profitability of their operations:
In Queen Anne’s County, Md., David Denny is the caretaker for 120,000 chickens on his four-house poultry farm where he’s an independent contract poultry farmer for Perdue. It takes a lot of chicken feed to raise all those birds to market weight.
David is also a grain farmer and in a unique position in that the corn and soybeans that he raises also help meet the nutritional needs of his flocks. It’s a unique advantage of our vertically integrated business model.
“It makes me feel good that I’m growing my own food for the chickens. I like the fact that our corn has good quality to it. It makes me feel like I know where my feed is coming from and coming from good farmers."
Our “you grow it, we will buy it” commitment to farmers, coupled with agronomic support and options for earning unbeatable premiums, make a real difference in the lives of our farm partners. Kevin Witmer runs Letort Valley Farm in Lancaster County, Pa. with his father. They prioritize crop diversification as a security measure, and have been growing Plenish soybeans for more than six years.
Kevin delivers his beans to the Perdue AgriBusiness soy crush plant in Bainbridge and loves that it’s nearby and he never has to wait in a long line. He said growing Plenish® high oleic soybeans has been similar to growing conventional soybeans, and that he has seen a much bigger return upon delivery.
“We started growing high-oleic beans when they first came out. We grow them the same as we grow regular beans,” said Witmer. “I think being a partner with Perdue AgriBusiness and growing these high oleic soybeans, the facility being where it is, the premiums they are willing to pay for these soybeans and the lack of yield difference between conventional beans and these soybeans, it definitely promotes a good working relationship. It think this year, depending on yield, we should to be able to gain $30 to $50 an acre by having Plenish soybeans (at a premium).”
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