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 Haring's Pride was started and continues to this day as a self sustaining family run business. It all started in 1954 when Pete Haring moved to Sicily Island , LA and bought a gas station where he sold minnows he collected from road ditches. In 1956 he became the first person to raise minnows commercially. That same business, Wisner Minnow Hatchery inc., is still in operation today.
By the early 1960s we hatched our first crop of catfish fingerlings and by 1970 were farming over 700 acres of catfish. It was also in 1970 that we opened our first processing plant, with a capacity of only 25,000 pounds per week. From 1982 on we began increasing our production capacity to keep up with the expanding market. Today we can process over 550,000 pounds per week in our two plants.
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To keep up with the needs of our processing plant we have been constantly increasingour farm size, today we have 13 farms in all, totaling over 3200 acres. It takes a tremendous amount of feed to accommodate an operation of this size so we opened our own feed mill, Topwater Feed Mill, in 1989 and quickly became the major supplier of catfish feed to Louisiana farmers.
We are very proud of our accomplishments in the catfish industry but even more proud when we are recognized by our peers. We have received the Louisiana Catfish Farmer of the Year Award, Catfish Farmers of America Award of Excellence, and the Small Business Person of the Year Award by the U.S. Small Business Administration. We are also an active member of The Catfish Institute.
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