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Heartland Catfish Company Named Golden Chick Vendor of the Year

Itta Bena, Miss. (June 14, 2023)- Heartland Catfish Company recently hired Linda Farnsworth Gwinn as a Regional Sales Manager. Linda has spent most of her career as a food broker gaining extensive knowledge and experience establishing products in the food service industry through sales and marketing operations.

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Celebrate National Catfish Month with Heartland Catfish Company

Itta Bena, Miss. (August 10, 2023) - August is National Catfish Month. Heartland Catfish Company, the nation’s leading supplier of fresh and frozen catfish products, is celebrating National Catfish Month by reflecting on its growth and environmental initiatives.

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Heartland Catfish Welcomes Linda Farnsworth Gwinn as Regional Sales Manager

Itta Bena, Miss. (June 14, 2023)- Heartland Catfish Company recently hired Linda Farnsworth Gwinn as a Regional Sales Manager. Linda has spent most of her career as a food broker gaining extensive knowledge and experience establishing products in the food service industry through sales and marketing operations.

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Heartland Catfish Company 2022 Recap

As 2023 begins, Heartland Catfish Company is reviewing current market numbers, as well as supply and demand throughout the industry. As impacts of supply-chain challenges linger, ongoing labor shortages and changing production cycles continue to create disparities in inventory types and numbers as we move through 2023.

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Heartland Catfish Company Eliminates Phosphate-Based Additive

ITTA BENA, Miss. (Aug. 19, 2022) - It’s National Catfish Month! Heartland Catfish Company, the nation’s leading supplier of fresh and frozen catfish products, is celebrating National Catfish Month by announcing the 2022 Heartland Catfish Culinary Contest winner while celebrating the beloved fish throughout the month of August.

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Celebrate National Catfish Month with Heartland Catfish Company

ITTA BENA, Miss. (Aug. 19, 2022) - It’s National Catfish Month! Heartland Catfish Company, the nation’s leading supplier of fresh and frozen catfish products, is celebrating National Catfish Month by announcing the 2022 Heartland Catfish Culinary Contest winner while celebrating the beloved fish throughout the month of August.

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Q1 2022: Market Check-in

As 2022 progresses, Heartland Catfish Company is looking at current numbers, as well as supply and demand throughout the industry. As some impacts of COVID-19 continue to decrease, ongoing labor shortages and slower production cycles continue to create a high-demand, low-supply environment that will likely continue in the U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish industry as we move through 2022.

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Heartland Catfish Company, U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish Production Leader, Attending Seafood Expo North America

ITTA BENA, MISS. (March 8, 2022) - Heartland Catfish Company will be showcasing their top product line of U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish at the 2022 North America Seafood Expo in Boston, Mass.

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Q4 2021: End of Year Market Check-In

As 2021 comes to a close, Heartland Catfish Company is looking at current numbers and supply and demand throughout the industry. Some impacts of COVID-19 continue to decrease, but ongoing labor shortages and slower production cycles created a high-demand, low-supply environment that will likely continue in the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry as we enter the new year.

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Q2 2021: Mid-Year Market Check-In

It should come as no surprise that 2020 affected the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry in a variety of ways thanks to the impact of COVID-19 and standard production cycle highs and lows.

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Heartland Catfish Company Celebrates 25 Years of Business in 2021

It should come as no surprise that 2020 affected the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry in a variety of ways thanks to the impact of COVID-19 and standard production cycle highs and lows.

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Q1 2021: Market Check-In

It should come as no surprise that 2020 affected the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry in a variety of ways thanks to the impact of COVID-19 and standard production cycle highs and lows.

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2020 Wrap-Up and Looking Ahead to 2021

It should come as no surprise that 2020 affected the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry in a variety of ways thanks to the impact of COVID-19 and standard production cycle highs and lows.

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Heartland Catfish Customer Featured on AL.com

The Ark family restaurant, located in Riverside, Alabama, has proudly served their customers Heartland Catfish products for years.

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Statement from Heartland Catfish Company: Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19

from Danny Walker, CEO Heartland Catfish Company has confirmed that one of our employees has tested positive for COVID-19 as of Monday, April 13. This employee has not been at

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Statement Regarding COVID-19

Heartland Catfish Company’s facilities are currently open and fully operational. As a U.S. food producer and processor, we feel obligated to do all we can to continue putting high-quality food

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Heartland Adds Processing and Freezer Capacity to Mississippi Facility

Heartland Catfish has completed part-one of a two-part expansion that will allow for consolidation of processing operations and add processing and freezer capacity for frozen product inventory. Housing all processing

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Heartland Catfish VP named Top 50 Under 40 by Mississippi Business Journal

Jonathan Mills, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Heartland Catfish Company, has been named one of the Top 50 Under 40 in Mississippi by the Mississippi Business Journal (MBJ). The MBJ

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CEO Danny Walker Named A 2019 CEO of Year by Mississippi Business Journal

Danny Walker, chief executive officer of Heartland Catfish Company since its founding in 1996, was named one of the Mississippi Business Journal’s CEOs of the Year for 2019. The annual award is

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CEO Danny Walker Interview with Seafood Source

 SeafoodSource recently interviewed CEO Danny Walker to talk about his work in the catfish industry. SeafoodSource is the leading international online business schools in the seafood industry. They pride themselves in providing educational

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Heartland Catfish Company to Exhibit at SENA18

The Heartland Catfish Company team is heading to Boston for this year’s Seafood Expo North America from March 11-13. We’re excited to reconnect with professionals throughout the seafood industry and

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Experimental Vaccine Could Prevent Costly Catfish Disease

Auburn University researchers plan to use a recent grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to field-test a new vaccine. The new vaccine aims to control columnaris disease, a

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USDA Invests in Research to Improve Domestic Aquaculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently announced grants to support the development of environmentally and economically sustainable aquaculture in the U.S. These

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USDA Catfish Regulations Raise the Bar on Consumer Safety

USDA Catfish Regulations Raise the Bar on Consumer Safety Heartland Catfish Co. Sets the Standard for Industry Processing and Inspection Program ITTA BENA, Miss. (Nov. 8) – Catfish is joining

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Delta Aquaculture on the Rise

The catfish are biting. The industry that began in 1959 in Yazoo County has seen its share of peaks and valleys in its economic pond. In its heyday of the

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MSU Research, Outreach Boost Catfish Industry

The Mississippi State University Extension Service has played a significant role in the state’s status as the top producer of catfish in the U.S. Most of the technological advances related

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MSU store offers frozen catfish fillets to shoppers

Frozen catfish fillets have joined Edam cheese, ice cream, muscadine juice, peanuts, beef and more in the lineup of local products for sale in the Mississippi State University Cheese Store.

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Catfish Continues To Swim To The Top

The Census of Agriculture is the most complete account of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Every Thursday USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service will highlight new

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Heartland Catfish VP named Top 50 Under 40 by Mississippi Business Journal
Heartland Catfish expansion published in Refrigerated and Frozen Foods