From 50g to 3kg in 47 days Our company was founded in 1959 by the late Sir Joseph Nickerson near the village of Rothwell Lincolnshire. The main production and processing plant are nearby at Caistor. For 50 years the company dedicated itself entirely to the genetic...
Warren Hall, Broughton, England, the headquarters in the 1990’s British United Turkeys Ltd (B.U.T.) was incorporated in 1962 and was founded by Rupert Chalmers-Watson whose family had built up a turkey breeding and production business at Fenton Barns in East Lothian,...
FounderMunroe Cappel Babcock founded Babcock Poultry Farm in 1935 by when he decided to start his own hatchery. It was located in a former shop in Ithaca, New York. Munroe Babcock was born in 1907 in Fredonia, New York near the shores of Lake Erie. His father had a...
Robert H. Saglio breed lobsters adopting techniques similar to that used in chickens by his father Henry Saglio the founder of Arbor Acres. High prices for energy forced this operation to close. He then started growing turkeys on Greyledge Farms and then capons. In...
Sterling Poultry Products was one of five (Sterling, Chunky Chicks (Nichols), Spinks, Sykes and Fairbairn) breeding organisations that eventually contributed to the group that comprised Ross Poultry Ltd and later Ross Breeders. The company was founded by Mr G.G....
In 1916 Robert C Cobb after finishing one year at the Harvard Business School decided to go into farming rather than start a career in business. He borrowed money from his father and purchased the Old Pickard Farm in Littleton 25 miles west of Boston. It comprised 167...
