Corporate Responsibility
Our Principles at
Work
At Jennie-O Turkey Store, we
believe wholeheartedly in giving back. It’s an important part of our
company—and we’ve developed an approach to operating responsibly and
philanthropically that permeates our approach to our people, processes,
products and performance.
Read our Corporate Responsibility Report for more
details and read below about some exciting projects we’ve been involved
with.
Jennie-O Turkey Store
Donation Helps Local Environmental Learning Center
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The founder of Jennie-O Turkey
Store, Earl B. Olson, led efforts to raise money for a major expansion
project for the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center—a
non-profit learning center near the headquarters of Jennie-O Turkey
Store in Minnesota.
Prairie Woods
ELC
In 2006, Jennie-O Turkey Store
helped fund the expansion in addition to funding from area residents,
county board members and the entire community.
Completed in
September 2007, the expansion included the addition of multi-purpose
rooms and an expanded exhibit area. The west addition was named in
honor of Olson, a major supporter and early contributor to Prairie
Woods ELC, to help carry out its mission of promoting a commitment to
the responsible use, management and preservation of our natural
resources.
Nothing Wasted: Feed
Mills
At Jennie-O Turkey Store’s feed
mills, even a sunflower shell doesn’t go to
waste.
Through partnerships with manufacturers and
other companies in the Minnesota and Wisconsin area, our company reuses
materials such as sunflower hulls, wood shavings and oat hulls to
produce feed and bedding for our turkeys. In total, we use 49
ingredients in our feed from 83 suppliers. Here’s a list of some of our
ingredients:
What we
buy:
- Sunflower hulls:
bought
from other companies and reused as a bedding source and later as a
fertilizer
- Wood shavings:
by-products from other manufacturing processes, including window
manufacturers and lumberyards
- Oat hulls: bought
from oat manufacturers and reused as a
bedding source
- Soybean meal:
bought from manufacturers after extract of oil and used in feed as a
source of protein
- Distillers dried
grains: by-products of ethanol industry used in
feed
What we
sell:
- Turkey litter: sold to a power plant
to use as a source of
energy and sold as organic fertilizer
- Ash from
burning turkey litter: ash sold to a
manufacturer to reuse as fertilizer
- Animal fat:
sold as biodiesel fuel
By
reusing and recycling these by-products, materials are kept out of landfills and new products are produced. It’s a cycle that benefits
everyone.
One-on-One Attention:
Veterinarians
At Jennie-O Turkey
Store, we are proud of our veterinarians that spend the majority of
their time in the field developing personal relationships
with our growers. As regular visitors to company-owned and independent
farms—as many as two to five days each week are spent on the farm. Our staff
veterinarians have one-on-one interaction with our growers and
livestock, allowing them to effectively monitor the animals and offer knowledgeable treatment to maintain the health of the
animals.
This personal attention also helps educate
our growers on ways to improve the health of the livestock and efficiently monitor the animals.
Read more about
our commitment to Corporate Responsibility at HormelFoods.com