John Cassidy

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  Published on: 8/25/2006    Last Visited: 5/22/2007  

  The company has a fleet of 1,800 hopper cars, said John Cassidy, international vice president for Perdue Farms.Cassidy said Perdue planned to add 65 to 90 cars to service the plant.
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  "Fifty percent of 40 million bushels will be coming from local origination," said Cassidy.
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  "Right now, we're buying corn for '09," said Cassidy.

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  Published on: 9/17/2002    Last Visited: 3/2/2007  

  "The Southern States locations complement Perdue's current capabilities in the Mid-Atlantic grain origination and will support our growth as a global processor and trader of grains and other agricultural products," said John Cassidy, Vice President of Grain for Perdue Farms.

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  Published on: 11/23/2004    Last Visited: 6/1/2008  

  John Cassidy, vice president of grain operations at Perdue, said they have had so many soybeans this year that they are storing some of their supply on the ground for the second time ever , a risky move Cassidy said is one they were forced to make. It's comparable to the grain supply the company had in 2000 and 2001.During those years Perdue had more than seven million bushels of corn stored on the ground and 500,000 bushels of soybeans.This year they are storing 600,000 bushels of soybeans on the ground at their Salisbury facility and there are a total of four million bushels of corn on the ground with 200,000 bushels on the ground at the Lothian facility. "I think a few people said back in 2000 and '01 that it was the mother of all crops and we'd never see another one," Cassidy said, adding that this year farmers have duplicated that success."I think it's an indication of how sophisticated the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia farmers have become," he said."To put soybeans on the ground, you think about it a lot before you do it," Cassidy said."We put it on asphalt, whereas corn we put on the ground as well as asphalt.Corn, because it has a protective outer shell, it's more resistant to moisture.We have to take every precaution we can to prevent moisture seeping into the soybeans. "We have put corn on the ground in all of the last five harvest years.This is only the second time we've done it in soybeans," Cassidy said.
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  Since the chicken industry uses more corn than soybeans for feed, Cassidy said he is exporting as many beans as possible, transporting them to Chesapeake, Va., where they are loaded onto barges and sold to China, Caribbean countries, Morroco, Egypt and Italy.

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  John Cassidy
  
  Perdue Grain and Oilseed, LLC

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  Carroll County Times: Westminster, Maryland - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/27/2003    Last Visited: 6/27/2003  

  John Cassidy, vice president of grain operations for Perdue, said his company has been scouting out existing rail sites in Central Maryland that could be used to get soybeans off of trucks and ship them to the Perdue soybean processing plants in Salisbury and Chesapeake, Va.
  
  Cassidy said he has been talking with Maryland Midland Railway, based in Union Bridge, about using one of the company's existing lines in western Carroll County as a rail loading site.Cassidy said he could not reveal the location, but said the location is promising because it already has a scale and rail spur in place.He estimated that the Carroll County site would take less than $200,000 of capital improvements to be ready for this October's soybean harvest.
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  Cassidy said Pennsylvania and Maryland both tend to produce more soybeans than the two states can use, creating a need to export the soybeans.But soybeans cannot be stored very long, he said, which causes problems when soybeans, corn and wheat are all ready to be harvested at the same time.
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  Cassidy said the Carroll County site Perdue is looking into would be able to accommodate 15 rail cars, which could transport between 50,000 and 70,000 bushels of soybeans.However, the region produces closer to 100,000 bushels per day, Cassidy said.

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  Published on: 10/9/2003    Last Visited: 12/5/2007  

  "Had it not been for the hurricane threat, most Delmarva farmers would have waited until their corn dried down to the proper moisture levels before harvesting," said John Cassidy, Vice President, Grain Operations.

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  Farm Bureau News and Features - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/22/2005    Last Visited: 12/5/2006  

  Joining Bloxom and Courter on the Dec. 12-14 trade mission were Doug Phillips, immediate past president of the Virginia Agribusiness Council; Henry and Cynthia Chiles of Crown Orchards; John Cassidy, international vice president for Perdue Farms; Tom Sheets of Blue Ridge Lumber; Casey Morgan of Star City Lumber; Tom Sleight and Jim Green of VDACS' Division of Marketing; and Dani Secondi, VDACS' Latin American consultant.

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  Published on: 12/22/2005    Last Visited: 10/9/2006  

  Joining Bloxom and Courter on the Dec. 12-14 trade mission were Doug Phillips, immediate past president of the Virginia Agribusiness Council; Henry and Cynthia Chiles of Crown Orchards; John Cassidy, international vice president for Perdue Farms; Tom Sheets of Blue Ridge Lumber; Casey Morgan of Star City Lumber; Tom Sleight and Jim Green of VDACS, Division of Marketing; and Dani Secondi, VDACS, Latin American consultant.

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  Published on: 9/17/2002    Last Visited: 9/17/2002  

  "The Southern States locations complement Perdue's current capabilities in the Mid-Atlantic grain origination and will support our growth as a global processor and trader of grains and other agricultural products," said John Cassidy, Vice President of Grain for Perdue Farms.
  
  Perdue Farms Grain & Oilseed Division has grain operations in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky and Indiana, including an international deep-water port, soybean crushing plants, an edible oil refinery, ingredient blending operations and network of grain storage elevators.

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  Published on: 8/5/2003    Last Visited: 12/13/2006  

  Speaking to the Maryland Grain Producers Association and the Maryland Soybean Association July 24 in Centreville, Md., Perdue executive John Cassidy said, "180 rail cars have been 'tucked away' for this project."That many cars could carry more than half a million bushels.Utilizing the cars for a minimum three-month period, Cassidy estimates in six moves Perdue could carry 3 mllion bushels to its soybean crushing plant in Chesapeake, Va. Basis there is higher because there is greater demand at the larger facility than in Salisbury, Md.Western Maryland and southeastern Pennsylvania farmers produce about 11 million bushels of soybeans, but Cassidy said much of the 7 million bushels being produced in southeastern Pennsylvania is being used locally in the dairy industry.Western Maryland farmers have been concerned about the loss of export facilities at the Port of Baltimore.Without it, they will be forced to truck soybeans significant distances."This is just a quick fix," Cassidy said.A state task force examining the issues with a goal of reporting to the legislature later this year has a larger vision for a longer term solution. "We are not trying to circumvent the task force, but to provide a reasonable fix for this fall.This is the quickest way to take the pressure off," Cassidy explained."It's not a final solution."Perdue, the region's major consumer of soybeans, is exploring possible barging facilities in Harford, Kent and St. Mary's counties in Maryland."We sold more than 8 million bushels of beans out of Chesapeake two years ago.We intend to sell into the export market," Cassidy added.

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