Farmland Foods, Inc. offers meat products in the United States. Its products include fresh pork, smoked hams and specialty items, bacon, processed and breakfast sausages, hot dogs and smoked sausages, deli hams and sandwich meats, black angus beef, beef, lunch meat, and Italian specialty meats. The company offers its products through grocery stores. Farmland Foods, Inc. was formerly known as Farmbest, Inc. and changed its name to Farmland Foods, Inc. in January 1970. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. It has slaughter/manufacturing plants in Crete, Nebraska; Denison and Carroll, Iowa; Monmouth, Illinois; New Riegel, Ohio; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Wichita, Kansas. The company also has case ready plants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Salt Lake City, Utah. As of May 2, 2004, Farmland Foods, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc.