President’s Award Winners:

1st Place, Community Outreach – Farmland Foods, Inc., Crete; Subsidiary Coordinator: Sean Orness; Team: Albert Hajek, Troy Mulgrew, and Jeff Waszgis; Charity Chosen: Farmland Scholarship Fund

2nd Place, Cleaner/Greener Production Processes and/or Packaging – Smithfield Beef Group, Green Bay, Plainwell, Sunland Beef, Moyer Packing; Subsidiary Coordinator: Mark Ritsema; Team: James Couch, Curt Grimm, Dave Fisher, Jerry Brown, and Jim Fisher; Charity Chosen: Einstein Project

3rd Place, Environmental Stewardship – Farmland Foods, Inc., Corporate, Monmouth, Denison, and Crete; Subsidiary Coordinator: Sean Orness; Team: Jeff Waszgis, Joshua Howard, Isaac Yoder, and Mike Keith; Charity Chosen: Izaak Walton League

Individual Facility Recipients: Best Recycling Of a Previous Year’s Project

1st Place – Patrick Cudahy, Cudahy; Subsidiary Coordinator: Ray Marsh; Team: Steve Samolyk, Rick Bentz, Mike Burnes, Walter Davis, Dave Dittman, Lenier Dugger, Chris Eggart, Phil Lowery, John Pedrosa, CJ Rath, Tom Stankiewicz, Al Koput Charity chosen: Cudahy Fire Department
Lowered steam pressure throughout the facility based on Portsmouth project from last year.

Honorable Mention: Smithfield – Portsmouth; Subsidiary Coordinator: Ruth Debrito; Team: Kenny Graham, Tommy Salmon, and Ruth Debrito
Took Farmland's insulate the boiler project and did at Portsmouth and now at North.

Cleaner/Greener Production Processes and/or Packaging

1st Place – Patrick Cudahy, Cudahy; Subsidiary Coordinator: Ray Marsh; Team: Ray Marsh, Steve Samolyk, Ron Nelson; Charity Chosen: Cudahy Fire Department
Purchasing corn oil on the outside cheaper than natural gas to maximize permit that allows burning animal fats.

2nd Place – Farmland Foods, Inc., Denison; Subsidiary Coordinator: Sean Orness; Team: Randy Anthony, Rhonda Grimm, Joshua Howard, Greg Borkowski; Charity Chosen: Pheasants Forever
Figured out how to use a blower to utilize all pickle in the lines saving in excess of 500K gallons of pickle/year (200 gallons per load).

3rd Place – Farmland Foods, Inc., Monmouth; Subsidiary Coordinator: Sean Orness; Team: Daryl Renken, Ron Mecum, Steve Meyer, and Isaac Yoder; Charity Chosen: Living Lands and Waters
While redesigning their facility for expansion, areas were addressed to minimize existing environmental footprint, 34MM water, 9.5MM c02, 5.2MM kw electricity

Honorable Mention: Farmland Foods, Inc., Carroll; Subsidiary Coordinator: Sean Orness; Team; Jeff Nehring, Michelle Tuel, Jeff Bowden, and Greg Hernandez
Purchased squeegees to empty totes completely instead of meat down drain - positively affected BOD as well.

Wastewater Handling and Treatment:

1st Place – Murphy Brown, Farm 2039; Subsidiary Coordinator: Katie Elmer; Team: Kendal Williams, Dave Elkin, and Prince Dugba; Charity Chosen: Breast Cancer Awareness, American Cancer Society
Partially covered Lagoon to gather methane to run an incinerator.

2nd Place – North Side Foods, Arnold; Subsidiary Coordinator: Mike Brown; Team: Jim Cunningham, and Mike Brown; Charity Chosen: Ronald McDonald House
Continued last years project with excellent metrics and continued to evaluate - removed a grease separation coagulant for substantial savings.

Environmental Training

Honorable Mention 1: John Morrell Corporate office – John Meyer
Created a power point for all boot camp items to keep the local facilities up to date during the regular year.

Honorable Mention 2: Smithfield, Tar Heel Truck Shop; Subsidiary Coordinator: Ruth Debrito; Team: Jorge Reyes, Gary Bradshaw, and Ruth Debrito
Vendor Training completed at the vendor site to insure that spill training occurred.

Honorable Mention 3: Smithfield, Tar Heel; Subsidiary Coordinator: Jeff Musselwhite; Team: Randy Clark and his waste water staff, and Jeff Musselwhite
Took the training manuals of an entire WWT facility and boiled down to 15 flowcharts for ease of training and use during ISO14001 audits.

Energy and Water Conservation

1st Place – John Morrell & Company, Armour Eckrich – Mason City; Subsidiary Coordinator: John Meyer; Team: Jim Billings, Steve Whipple, Devin Benter; Charity Chosen: Cerro Gordo County Conservation
Captured heat in refrigeration and preheated incoming water - great use of energy!

2nd Place – John Morrell & Company, Cumberland Gap – Middlesboro; Subsidiary Coordinator: John Meyer; Team: Joe Bailey; Charity Chosen: Bell County Drug Court
Ran a cooling water loop to cool hydraulic packs instead of flow through water 12.5 MM gallons of water or 33% reduction in flow.

3rd Place – Smithfield Beef Group, Green Bay; Subsidiary Coordinator: Mark Ritsema; Team: Dale Boucher, Kevin Kohlbeck, Jeff Vorpahl, Curt Grimm, Kerry Huter, Marv Hoppe, Jim Holly, Paul Geurts, Scott Huguet; Charity Chosen: Einstein Project
Plantwide effort reduced water by 12% per head.

4th Place – Animex, Morliny; Subsidiary Coordinator: Aleksander Kondrusik; Team: Wieslaw Szlachetka, and Ludwik Zielinski; Charity Chosen: TBD
Utilized used equipment to capture boiler blowdown for direct use in the facility as well as heat for heating potable water.

5th Place – Smithfield, Smithfield Specialty Group; Subsidiary Coordinator: Natalie Mackie; Team: Larry Wcislo, Michael Hartmann, Charles Matthews, Natalie Mackie; Charity Chosen: Isle of Wight Humane Society, Children’s Hospital of the Kings Daughters, Colonial VA Chapter of the American Red Cross
Replaced old heating units with more efficient units and cut gas output by 53% - concentrated on highest environmental impact.

Honorable Mention 1: Farmland Foods, Inc., Wichita; Subsidiary Coordinator: Sean Orness; Team: Erin Brady, Reynolds Brigidi, and Brad Horn
ISO team members observed 4 water coolers operated together whether needed or not - change to individual operation 14% reduction in water usage.

Honorable Mention 2: John Morrell & Company, Mohawk; Subsidiary Coordinator: Steve Dravland: Team: Agustin Martinez, Jay Molcan
Installed a glycol cooling loop on a multivac machine for cooling.

Honorable Mention 3: North Side Foods, Arnold; Subsidiary Coordinator: Mike Brown; Team; Jim Cunningham, and Mike Brown
Cool new idea - sprayed on Ceramic insulation with significant savings.

Honorable Mention 4: Murphy Brown, Waverly; Subsidiary Coordinator: Katie Elmer; Team: Jerry Trier and Keith Allen
Moved to an air control system for flushing (from solenoids that freeze) reducing water usage by 13.5MM gallons of water/year.

Honorable Mention 5: Smithfield, Landover; Subsidiary Coordinator: Natalie Mackie; Team: Paul Coleman, and Fernando Rentas
Reduced positive plant pressure and worked with QA to raise interior temps to maximum allowable.

Waste Reduction/Pollution Prevention

1st Place – John Morrell & Company, Saratoga; Subsidiary Coordinator: Steve Dravland; Team: Jesus Delgado, Al Lakhani, and Mark Beattie; Charity Chosen: ASPCA
Reduced an overlooked source (spice waste) and cut landfill by 69% while finding a beneficial use (animal feed).

2nd Place – John Morrell & Company, Mohawk; Subsidiary Coordinator: John Meyer; Team: Joe Rosa, Agustin Martinez, and Miguel Avalos; Charity Chosen: Community Environmental Council, Inc.
Brine recovery for brisket injection - good writeup and reference to stealing from another project at a sister facility.

Environmental Stewardship

Honorable Mention: Smithfield Beef Group, Sunland Beef: Subsidiary Coordinator: Mark Ritsema; Team: Aubrey Price, Robert Braymiller, Mark Ritsema
Proactive approach to odor complaints turned a black eye into a win.