Heartland Catfish Company, Inc, 55001 Highway 82 W, Itta Bena, MS 38941, US

Freshwater Farms Products, located in Belzoni, Miss., has been producing quality catfish since 1982. The corporation is owned by a group of 20 catfish producers who formed the company in order to insure that their high-quality, farm-raised catfish would be processed to their specifications. In 1997, the company began production from a new, 44,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Belzoni, known the Catfish Capital of the World. There are very few companies that know and control the quality and integrity of their catfish like Freshwater Farms Products. It monitors every phase of production from the pond to the plant in order to produce freshness. The company s flavor-testing kitchen, in-house laboratory, state-of-the-art processing facility and professionally-trained and certified staff, insure its customers of receiving the highest standards in catfish processing available.