Gary Cooper is the Chief Operating Officer of Cooper Farms. Mr. Cooper joined the family operation of Cooper Farms in 1974, after attending Bowling Green State University. He is familiar with all aspects of the company. He assumed operational control, along with his brother James R. Cooper, upon the retirement of his father in 1980. Cooper Farms is a model of modern, efficient family-owned production agriculture as a producer of hogs, turkeys and table eggs. Cooper Farms is a vertically integrated turkey operation, controlling their product from egg to market. They raise and process over 240 million live pounds of turkey each year. Cooper Farms also raises and markets over 148 million live pounds of hogs and produces over 66 million dozen table eggs each year. Cooper Farms was founded in 1938. Today, Cooper Farms is the largest turkey producer in Ohio and 12th largest in the United States of America. Cooper Farms now owns and operates four divisions located in northwest and west central, Ohio;. Mr. Cooper serves as a Past-Chairman and member of the Executive Committee for the National Turkey Federation. He serves on the Legislative Committee for the National Pork Producers Council, is a Past-President of the Ohio Poultry Association and Past-Chairman of the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association. Mr. Cooper is also a past board member the American Feed Industry Association, the Midwest Poultry Consortium and the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance.