Longacre is also director of National Penn Investors Trust Co., and is chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at National Penn Bancshares Inc., a business that reported fourth quarter 2007 revenues of $61 million, and $213 million in annual revenues in 2005, according to Business Week. Longacre said he no longer is affiliated with Farm and Home Oil, but did open trusts and perpetuities for his children. Partners in February, who then sold the retail division to Entergy.
He said that company was sold to Buckeye Ltd. He acquired that company in 1990 and turned it over to his children in 1998. Longacre was formerly the CEO and chairman of Farm and Home Oil in Telford. He served as president from 1984 to 1990. His family owned Wampler-Longacre, originally the Longacre Family Poultry Company. Knauss & Son, the world’s largest dried beef manufacturer, and Schafer Bologna in Easton in 2004.Īlderfer was purchased by Franconia entrepreneur Longacre in March.
It manufactures cooked product as ham, turkey and beef.Īlderfer acquired E.W. It has two facilities in Quakertown and one in Harleysville. It slaughters hogs and manufactures pork, ham, bacon and sausage.Īlderfer Inc., founded in 1922, makes natural wood smoked, slow-cured, meat products. It was founded in 1893 and is a full-line pork processor serving chain stores and food service. Leidy’s has a processing plant on Cherry Lane in Franconia.
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All of their cage-free farmers allow their hens to roam free inside the chicken houses. On all the Alderfer farms, their hens are cared for in a loving way. They insist their hens be certified organic and cage-free. “The talk of co-packing for lesser volume of items was early on in the conversation.” In addition to the home farm, Alderfer's partners with small family farms in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania. “We have to come up with the appropriate corporate structure for the two companies, like the flow of information, human resources, product flow and transportation,” Leidy said. Longacre and Leidy would not give details as to the reason for the merger, or say who approached who regarding the merger. “(The merger) seemed to be the most logical step.” This is disturbing to many organic consumers, since transparency has always been viewed as a hallmark of the organic food movement.“We first started talking about co-packing for each other, as a benefit for both companies,” he said. No producers in this category were willing to participate in Cornucopia research. Means of egress from the buildings are intentionally small to discourage birds from going outside. “Outdoor access” on these operations often means a covered concrete porch that is barely accessible to the chickens. Mary's Organic Eggs (Pitman Family Farms)ġ-Egg Rating | Poor Brands with a 1-Egg Rating are generally produced on industrial-scale operations that grant no meaningful outdoor access and/or are marketed under "private label" or store brands. They provide an excellent outdoor environment, often either rotated pasture or well-managed outdoor runs, with an adequate number of doors for the chickens to reach the outdoors. They sell eggs under their farm’s brand name, mostly through farmers markets, food cooperatives and/or independently owned grocery stores and sometimes through larger chains.Ĥ-Egg Rating | Excellent Producers in this category provide ample outdoor space and make an effort to encourage their birds to go outside. They raise their hens in mobile housing on well-managed, ample pasture or in fixed housing with intensively managed rotated pasture.
5-Egg Rating | Top Rated Producers in this top tier go “beyond organic” managing their diverse family-scale farms.
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