Overview
Employees
201-500 employees
Revenue
$50 to $100 million (USD) per year
Headquarters
Amarillo, Texas
Category
Consumer Staple Products
Friona Industries, L. P. began as single small cattle feedyard in Amarillo, TX, in 1962 as the beef industry began to recognize the resources that existed in the Texas panhandle. Founding partners, like A.L. Black, were a group of cattle feeders who could see beyond the cattle to all the other businesses that cattle feeding supported: meat processing, feed manufacturing, and trucking, to name just a few. Today, privately held Friona Industries has eight state-of-the-art feedyards in Texas and Kansas, with a feeding capacity that ranks us in the top 2 feedyards worldwide. We continue to focus on a vertically aligned production system that creates a consistent, safe, tender and flavorful beef for branded product lines marketed in 2,300 retails stores in the U.S Friona Industries, L. P. provides cattle feeding services. The Company offers services ranging from preconditioning calves through final finishing for slaughter. Friona Industries serves retail stores in the United States. Friona Industries puts beef on America's tables. One of the world's biggest feedlot operations, Amarillo, Texas-based Friona owns four feedyards in the northwestern part of the Lone Star State that have a feeding capacity of more than 275,000 head of cattle. The beef it produces on its lots is sold in some 2,300 food retail outlets throughout the US. In addition to feeding hungry beef cattle, Friona offers cattle ranchers risk-management assistance and partnering options. Its Agricultural Credit division helps them with financing for their cattle, feed, and hedging costs. Friona Industries was founded in 1962 by president and CEO James E. Herring.
