Everything about Frank Ford Farmer totally explained
Jesse Frank Ford, known as
Frank Ford (born ca. 1933), is a retired
Texas farmer and health-foods advocate who in 1960 founded
Arrowhead Mills, the largest
natural foods wholesaler in the
United States. The company is based in
Hereford, the seat of
Deaf Smith County west of
Amarillo in the
Texas Panhandle. Arrowhead Mills removes impurities from
corn and
wheat and farms without
pesticides.
Personal background
A Hereford native, Ford was the son of Jesse Ford (1894-1969) and the late Mrs. Ford. As a teenager, Ford worked in a
grocery store in Hereford. He graduated in 1955 from
Texas A&M University in
College Station with a
bachelor of science degree in
agronomy. He was commander of the
TAMU Corps of Cadets and was active in the
Campus Crusade for Christ and its related
Athletes in Action. Himself
nondenominational, Ford is a supporter of the
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and advocates a "less-is-more" approach to living and
spirituality.
Arrowhead Mills
Arrowhead Mills operates four warehouses, containing over of storage space, and holds tons of food for shipment to a nationwide network of distributors.
Ford sought to provide large-scale stone grinding of grain and to maintain natural soil nutrition. He took the view that all farming should first maintain and then improve the soil. He served as chairman of the
trade association, the National Nutritional Food Association.
Ford said that he's convinced that "the natural-foods movement is [not] over the hill at all. In fact, I think it's just coming into its own. The rest of the country is finally beginning to realize that we've to conserve our resources and utilize them correctly . . . that whole foods are best and natural growing methods are really the most efficient."
Social activist
Ford claims to represent the "common man" in public affairs. A labor activist, he tried to pay higher wages at Arrowhead Mills than other such companies offer. He never drew a salary from the company that was more than three times that of his lowest-paid employee.
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