The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-10-13
No Change In Local Egg Plant
Despite Change In Ownership
Meat Packing
Firm Purchases
Lindsey Robinson


Inc, of Roanoke a major feed
manufacturer that operates under
the brand name Fair-Acre, has
been purchased by Valleydale
Packers, Inc, of Salem. Valleydale
is one Of the largest meat packing
firms in the Southeast. No sale
price was disclosed
The announcement was made by
Lorenz Neuhoff, Jr., president of
Valleydale Packers, Inc, and c.
Grattan Lindsey, Jr., chairman of
the board Of Lindsey-Ro Robinson and
Company. Neuhoff will serve as
president of Valleydale's new sub
siderary
The firm (LindseyRobinson,
will continue under its present
name and there will be no changes
in its operating policy" Neuhoff
said.
Egg Grading Same
Lindsey-R Robinson is best known
in the Farmville area for the egg
grading plant it erected just west
Of town in 1858. Clarence Fisher,
Jr., district sales manager, who has
headquarters in Farmville, said to-
day, the change in ownership
would have no effect on the opera
ton Of the Egg Marketing Service
He also reported that the egg grad
ing plant is now handling $500 cases
Of eggs per week, and the plant is
equipped to handle capacity of
5000 cases Of eggs. The volume Of
eggs han idle d has increased
steadily since the plant opened.
Fair-Acre feed dealers in the area
included PutneyTowler Farm Ser
vice in Farmville, and Buckingham
Mills VI w. Thompsono at Buck
ingham. The ownership change will
not affect these agencies.
Lindsey R Johnson and Company
employs IFS persons and has annual
gross sales Of seven million dollars.
The firm produces wide variety
of formula feeds which are sold
through franchised dealers in the
six-state area bounded by Mary
land. West Virginia and Georgia.
ValleydaIe
Valleydale Packers, Inc, was
founded in 1888 at Lynchburg, by
Lorenz Neuhoff. Jr.. with q EN-
ployees and annual gross sales of
S5OO,OOO From this point, Neuhoff
began a continued expansion pro-
gram throughout the Southeast. The
firm moved it's main offices to Sa-
lem, upon completion of its plant
there in 1886.
Today. operations include, besides
Valleydale Packers, Inc, at Salem
six other plants: Valleydale Packers
Inc, at Bristol, and Reelfoot Pack
ing Company at Union City, Tenn.
both acquired in 1916; plants at
Clarksville. Tenn, acquired in
1919; Kinston, N. c., acquired in
1850; and Montgomery, Ala, ac-
quired in 1855, all operating as
Frosty Morn Meats. The m t
recent addition is Suber- Edwards
Company in Quincy, Fla, acquired
in 1858.
Currently the meat packing firm
has over l,5OO employees and does
annual gross sales in excess of 100
million dollars.
Long History
Lindsey-Robinson has a history
dating back to the late 1865 when
the firm served the Roanoke Val
ley as merchant millers of flour
and feed The Company was or
gained under its present charter
in 1918. In 1916. large scale pro-
duction of formula feeds was under
taken, equiring complete
undermining of its milling facilities
One Of the most modern mills in
the South. the equipment is about
IS per cent push-button operated
and has rated capacity Of 30 tons
Of manufactured feed an hour.
Emmett M. Williams, Jr, will be
executive vice president and gen.
eral manager of the new operation.
Williams joined the Company in
September, 1858, as Feed Sales
Manager. A native of Mississippi
and a graduate of Mississippi State
College,