| AN INTRODUCTION TO VERITY  Webster's Dictionary defines "VERITY" as a "fundamental and inevitable true value…the quality or state of being truthful and honest." Verity Sustaining Solution foundation is, and always will be, crop and livestock production; however, becasue of our core goal - to provide consumers with a safe, high-quality, nutritious food source - Verity has grown and diversified into three distinct, yet interlinked, divisions operating six business units. The three division:Soil Preservation, Water Systems and Consumer Products. Soil Preservation consists of Verity Farms and Verity Turf; Verity Water Systems comprises its own division; and, Verity Consumer Products consists of Verity Meats, Verity Produce and Verity Grains. The common goal within each Verity Business Unit is to decrease chemical dependency, to diminish the need for genetic manipulations, to preserve the family farm, and ultimately, to provide a nutritious, high-quality food source to consumers. VERITY FARM'S MEATS are the standard to which other meats should be compared. Family farmers raise their livestock with pride. Verity has a NEVER EVER policy with regard to giving animals antibiotics, artificial hormones, growth promotants, and animal by-products. VERITY'S PROGRAM combines soil stewardship, crop productions, and livestock with many years of practical knowledge and scientific principles. VERITY FARM'S PRODUCERS are from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota. All producers voluntarily follow Verity's defined protocols for grain production - it can take up to three years just to prepare the soil to Verity's high standards. After three years the soils are tested to determine if they meet the standard of non-detectable amounts of 304 known carcinogens and chemical residues. If they meet the standard, as set forth by FDA and EPA Guidelines, they may produce grain for Verity. VERITY FARMS GRAIN must pass the same standard as the soil - non-detectable amounts of 304 known carcinogens and chemical residues. Only then may they be used as feed for our livestock production. The result is the highest quality meats - raised for our customer's total eating enjoyment. Dr. William Albrecht, chairman of the Department of Science at the University of Missouri, states, "A declining soil fertility, due to lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals, is responsible for poor crops and, in turn, for pathological conditions in animals fed deficient foods from such soils and mankind is no exception." Part of the soil problem is experienced through genetic improvement. Hybrid crops have removed some nutrients faster than they have been replaced. The result is imbalances in our soils that cause important minerals and trace minerals to be unavailable for crop utilization. Commercial production has failed to recognize this elemental fact about soil and thus continues to pour large amounts of poorly balanced fertilizer into our soils. Although the result may produce higher quantities of crops, it also produces ground water pollution. It does not produce quality food and good soil stewardship for future generations sidestepped. Soil has a biological living population that must be kept alive and active in order to break down minerals for a plant's benefit. The right combination of nutrients are necessary to feed the "life" or soil's microbes. In addition, balancing the soil mineral levels is necessary for availability of nutrients vital for crop production. All crop ground/soils are tested for mineral content. Nutrients shown to be out of balance are brought into equilibrium to ensure that our crops have the nutrients necessary for optimum animal health. | 