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Pre-Dinner Technical Session
(5:00 - 6:00 pm):
Evolving Management
Presented by Daniel Hatcher, Plant
Manager, Case Farms
 Daniel
Hatcher is
the Plant
Manager at
Case Farms.
Case Farms was founded by Thomas R.
Shelton in December 1986. After gaining
over 23 years of management experience
in the poultry industry, Mr. Shelton
realized a goal of owning a company by
purchasing a small family-owned poultry
operation in Ohio.
The Company was called Case Egg &
Poultry and included a processing plant in
Winesburg, Ohio, a hatchery in Strasburg,
Ohio, and a food distribution facility in
Akron, Ohio. In its first year of operation,
Case Farms processed 135,000 chickens
per week, had 140 team members, and
produced 22 million pounds of poultry
products. Since 1987, the facilities have
been upgraded and expanded and today
processes 425,000 chickens per week,
have 550 team members, and produce in
excess of 150 million pounds of
production per year.
In February 2012, the Company acquired
the Canton Division from Park Farms. The
facilities include a 96,176 square foot
processing plant and a 50,908 square foot
cooler/freezer facility built in multiple
stages from 1956 - 1989 located on 15.3
acres, and a 26,066 square foot poultry
hatchery built in 1990 located on 8.98
acres in Canton. Since the acquisition, the
facilities have been upgraded and today
process 840,000 small chickens per week,
have 500 team members, and produce in
excess of 125,000,000 pounds of
production per year.
Today, Case Farms processes 3.3 million
birds per week, has over 3200 dedicated
team members, and produces in excess of
1.0 billion pounds of fresh, partially
cooked, and frozen-for-export poultry
products per year.
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Post-Dinner Technical Session
(6:30 - 7:30):
The Challenges and Rewards in the
Poultry Industry
Presented by Dick Courtney
 Dick Courtney
started his career
as a cost
accountant with
the U.S. Stoneware
division of Norton
Co and worked as
the plant accountant in various plants and
warehouses in northeast Ohio. He moved
on to Diebold where he had a 32 year
career working in financial analysis,
in planning and budgeting and as a
system administrator for the global
consolidated accounting and reporting
system. Dick joined the Case Farms team
in July 2010 and worked with the live
production until his recent retirement.
Dick graduated cum laude from Kent
State University in 1972 with a Bachelor
of Business Administration majoring in
Accounting and again in 1974 with a MBA
having a concentration in taxes. At KSU,
he attended the Honors College and was
inducted into Beta Alpha Psi the National
Accounting Honorary and into Beta
Gamma Sigma the National Business
Honorary
Married 49 years, Dick and his wife,
Kathie, live on a farm outside Beach City
where they raise beef cattle and meat
goats. They have four grown children and
their spouses and seven grandchildren.
Dick is active in the Boy Scouts, the DN
Community Federal Credit Union, the East
Central Ohio Foresters Association and
the Eastern Ohio Grazing Council.
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