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L.L. Parks Livestock, Inc., Oakwood, Ill., and Farms.com, Ltd., Memphis, Tenn., announce that they have formed an alliance to further advance the marketing opportunities available within the cull swine and SEW/feeder pig industries. This alliance will build upon the strengths of each company and enhance the available revenues to both producer and processor. L.L. Parks Livestock, Inc. (Parks) has specialized in cull swine marketing for 25 years. As the fastest growing leader in the North American cull swine industry, Parks has 15 marketing facilities in seven US states and two Canadian provinces. In fiscal year 2000, Parks marketed over 900,000 head of sows, boars, light hogs and barbeque pigs. The Parks geographic diversity, innovative marketing concepts and volume allows them to deliver precisely sorted products to specialty packers through the United States and Canada. "Producers will benefit from this alliance by means of the greater marketing synergies created through information and technology, enabling better pricing and greater market exposure. Processors benefit from increased efficiencies created through better procurement, precision sorting and timely delivery," according to Lawrence Parks, President of L.L. Parks Livestock, Inc. Farms.com, Ltd., is a leading North American provider of e-business solutions for the agricultural industry. Primarily focusing on the $240 billion North American agricultural market, Farms.com offers an independent, comprehensive information service as well as implementation tools that target the swine, beef cattle and crop/feedstuffs marketplaces. Through the highly functional and easy to navigate e-commerce hub, Farms.com provides input suppliers, producers, processors, distributors and consumers with the ability to manage risk, transact on-line commerce and make timely and profitable decisions. Farms.com is headquartered in Memphis, Tenn. "The Parks/Farms.com alliance will build upon the existing synergies of each company while creating opportunities to add value for the North American pork industry," said Doug Maus, Senior Vice President at Farms.com. “This alliance also will allow greater opportunities to create an on-line marketing exchange to provide producers throughout North America with timely information and help improve decision making and increase profits.” For more information about this alliance, contact Maus at (800) 821-7418 or Parks at (800) 372-4647.
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