Jesse Frank Ford, known as Frank Ford (born ca. 1933), is a retired Texas farmer and health-foods advocate who in 1960 founded Arrowhead Mills, the largest natural foods wholesaler in the United States. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. A farmer is a person who raises living organisms for food or raw materials Arrowhead Mills is an all-natural food company that produces organic baking mixes grains cereals and nut butters Natural foods are foods that are minimally processed Natural foods do not include ingredients such as refined Sugars, refined Flours milled grains Wholesaling is the sale of Goods or Merchandise to Retailers to industrial commercial institutional or other professional Business users The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The company is based in Hereford, the seat of Deaf Smith County west of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. Hereford is a city in Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States. Deaf Smith County is a County located in the US state of Texas. The Texas Panhandle is a region of the US state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state Arrowhead Mills removes impurities from corn and wheat and farms without pesticides. Maize (ˈmeɪz ( Zea mays L. ssp mays) known as corn in some countries is a cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica Wheat ( Triticum spp is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Levant area of the Middle East. A pesticide is a substance or mixture of substances used to kill a pest.

Personal background

A Hereford native, Ford was the son of Jesse Ford (1894-1969)^[1] and the late Mrs. Ford. As a teenager, Ford worked in a grocery store in Hereford. A grocery store is a store established primarily for the Retailing of Food. He graduated in 1955 from Texas A&M University in College Station with a bachelor of science degree in agronomy. Texas A&M University, often called A&M or TAMU, is a Coeducational public Research University located in College Station College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in Central Texas. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S Agronomy is the science and technology of using plants for food fuel feed and fiber He was commander of the TAMU Corps of Cadets and was active in the Campus Crusade for Christ and its related Athletes in Action. The Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets (often The Fightin' Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets, The Corps of Cadets, or simply The Corps) is a student military Campus Crusade for Christ is an Interdenominational Christian organization that promotes Evangelism and discipleship in over 190 countries around Athletes in Action (AIA is an evangelical Christian Sports ministry Himself nondenominational, Ford is a supporter of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and advocates a "less-is-more" approach to living and spirituality. In Christianity, the term non-denominational refers to those churches that have not formally aligned themselves with an established denomination, or remain otherwise The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA is an organization started by the Rev Spirituality, in a narrow sense concerns itself with matters of the Spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and Faith, a transcendent reality ^[2]

Arrowhead Mills

Arrowhead Mills operates four warehouses, containing over 30,000 square feet (2,800 m²) of storage space, and holds tons of food for shipment to a nationwide network of distributors. ^[3]

Ford sought to provide large-scale stone grinding of grain and to maintain natural soil nutrition. He took the view that all farming should first maintain and then improve the soil. He served as chairman of the trade association, the National Nutritional Food Association. An industry trade group, also known as a trade association, is an organization founded and funded by Businesses that operate in a specific Industry. ^[2] During the formative years of Arrowhead Mills, Ford personally did most of the growing, grinding, sacking, trucking, warehousing, shipping, and bookkeeping. Bookkeeping (also book-keeping or book keeping) is the recording of all Financial transactions undertaken by an individual or Organization (including Slowly, the investment of time, money, and energy began to pay dividends from the increased national awareness of organic foods and sound nutrition. Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision to cells and Organisms of the materials necessary (in the form of food to support ^[3] Ford also was an advertising spokesman for the natural food industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand ^[4]

Ford said that he is convinced that "the natural-foods movement is [not] over the hill at all. In fact, I think it's just coming into its own. The rest of the country is finally beginning to realize that we have to conserve our resources and utilize them correctly . . . that whole foods are best and natural growing methods are really the most efficient. "^[5]

Social activist

Ford claims to represent the "common man" in public affairs. A labor activist, he tried to pay higher wages at Arrowhead Mills than other such companies offer. He never drew a salary from the company that was more than three times that of his lowest-paid employee. ^[2] Ford is a spokesman for small farmers through his position on an agricultural advisory committee in Washington, D.C. He has helped to formulate plans for sewage recycling projects. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Sewage is the mainly liquid Waste containing some solids produced by humans which typically consists of washing water Feces, Urine, laundry waste and other ^[3] In the 1980s, he led the opposition to an attempt by the United States Department of Energy to locate a controversial nuclear waste site in Deaf Smith County, an action which would have imperiled Arrowhead Mills as well as the pivotal Ogallala Aquifer, the source of most West Texas water. The United States Department of Energy ( DOE) is a Cabinet -level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy Radioactive wastes are Waste types containing radioactive Chemical elements that do not have a practical purpose The Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High Plains Aquifer, is a vast yet shallow underground Water table Aquifer located beneath the Great Plains West Texas is a region in Texas that has more in common geographically with the Southwestern United States than it does with the rest of the state Water is a common Chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of Life. The site was instead located at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Nevada ( is a state located in the western region of the United States of America. ^[2]

Three books

Ford has written three books:

(1) New Harvest, a collection of his reflections and verse on national spiritual rejuvenation

(2) Pack to Nature: Nutrition Made Easy in the Home or in the Woods (both from Harvest Publishing Company of Fort Worth)

(3) The Deaf Smith Country Cookbook, available through Macmillan. Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth-largest city in the United States. ^[3]

Democratic politician

In 1999, Ford sold Arrowhead Mills to the Hain Celestial Group of Melville, New York, which maintains its public relations office in Boulder, Colorado. The Hain Celestial Group is a food company whose main focus is natural and Organic foods and Personal care products Melville is a hamlet and Census-designated place in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York Boulder is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, in the United States Arrowhead offers 220 items. ^[2]

He thereafter retired to Irvine, in Orange County in southern California. Irvine ( is an incorporated city in Orange County California, United States Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. In 2008, he filed as a Democratic candidate for the District 49 seat in the United States House of Representatives to oppose the conservative Republican incumbent Darrell Issa of Vista in northern San Diego County. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined Darrell E Issa (pronounced Eye -suh (born November 1, 1953) is an American politician and formerly a CEO of a Consumer electronics Vista is a city in northern San Diego County, California. As of the 2000 census the city had a total population of 89857 San Diego County is a County located on the Pacific Ocean in the far southwest of the U Ford withdrew from the primary because of health considerations. Issa will face Democrat Robert "Bob" Hamilton of Fallbrook, also in San Diego County, in the November 4 general election. Fallbrook is a Census-designated place (CDP in northern San Diego County California. Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani A general election is an Election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election ^[6]

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