Itta Bena, Miss. (August 20, 2024) – It’s not too late to get hooked on catfish. August is National Catfish Month and Heartland Catfish Company, the nation’s leading supplier of fresh and frozen catfish products, is celebrating National Catfish Month by getting its customers hooked on this versatile protein.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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