The Beresfield, NSW site with feed mill, hatchery, growing houses and processing plant. Steggles Pty Limited began in the 1920’s in Newcastle NSW as a produce and stock feed operation run by three brothers Jack, Stan and George. Bruce Steggles, the son of Jack, took...
Ross Breeders Ltd was the outcome of a series of mergers and takeovers in British poultry production. The name was inherited from the Ross family in Grimsby. It was developed gradually in Grimsby from 1920 when Thomas Ross started a small fish merchandizing company....
Benjamin Peterson was a pioneer who in 1890, with his wife and son George Elmer, drove a wagon from Decatur, Illinois and acquired 160 acres of land in the north-western uplands of Arkansas near the town of Decatur. George and his brother Cal married the Beal sisters....
Arthur Perdue started a poultry business when the railway company he worked for, Adams Express Co., wanted to transfer him to Pennsylvania from Salisbury, Maryland. In the Express Office as an Agent he observed thousands of eggs being shipped to northern cities. He...
The Parks’ Poultry Farm was located in Altoona, Pennsylvania and made its reputation breeding Barred Plymouth Rock. The farm was owned and managed by the three generation of the Parks family: the founder Joe R. Parks, his son Joe W. Parks and his Robert (Bob) Parks....
Nichols Poultry Farm was established in Kingston, New Hampshire in 1915 by Perrin Nichols and his son Frederic Nichols. The farm was to become one of the first commercial broiler growing farms in the U.S.A. They produced “springers” (as broilers were then known) for...
