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EXHIBIT 99.1
LETTER TO REGISTERED HOLDERS AND DTC PARTICIPANTS
REGARDING THE OFFER TO EXCHANGE
$ 175,000,000 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF
9 1/4% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2011
OF
PREMIUM STANDARD FARMS, INC.
To Registered Holders and The Depository Trust Company Participants:
We are enclosing herewith the materials listed below relating to the offer
by Premium Standard Farms, Inc. (the "Company") to exchange the Company's new
9 1/4% Senior Notes due 2011 (the "New Notes"), pursuant to an offer registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), for a like
principal amount of the Company's issued and outstanding 9 1/4% Senior Notes due
2011 (the "Old Notes") upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in
the Company's Prospectus, dated , 2001, and the related
Letter of Transmittal (which together constitute the "Exchange Offer").
Enclosed herewith are copies of the following documents:
1. Prospectus dated , 2001;
2. Letter of Transmittal;
3. Notice of Guaranteed Delivery;
4. Instructions to Registered Holder or DTC Participant from
Beneficial Owner; and
5. Letter which may be sent to your clients for whose account
definitive registered notes or book-entry interests representing Old Notes
in your name or in the name of your nominee, to accompany the instruction
form referred to above, for obtaining such client's instruction with regard
to the Exchange Offer.
WE URGE YOU TO CONTACT YOUR CLIENTS PROMPTLY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE EXCHANGE
OFFER WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON , 2001,
UNLESS EXTENDED.
The Exchange Offer is not conditioned upon any minimum number of Old Notes
being tendered.
To participate in the Exchange Offer, a beneficial holder must either (i)
cause to be delivered to Wilmington Trust Company (the "Exchange Agent"), at the
address set forth in the Letter of Transmittal, definitive registered notes
representing Old Notes in proper form for transfer together with a properly
executed Letter of Transmittal or (ii) cause a DTC Participant to tender such
holder's Old Notes to the Exchange Agent's account maintained at the Depository
Trust Company ("DTC") for the benefit of the Exchange Agent through DTC's
Automated Tender Offer Program ("ATOP"), including transmission of a
computer-generated message that acknowledges and agrees to be bound by the terms
of the Letter of Transmittal. By complying with DTC's ATOP procedures with
respect to the Exchange Offer, the DTC Participant confirms on behalf of itself
and the beneficial owners of tendered Old Notes all provisions of the Letter of
Transmittal applicable to it and such beneficial owners as fully as if it
completed, executed and returned the Letter of Transmittal to the Exchange
Agent. You will need to contact those of your clients for whose account you hold
definitive registered notes or book-entry interests representing Old Notes and
seek their instructions regarding the Exchange Offer.
Pursuant to the Letter of Transmittal, each holder of Old Notes will
represent to the Company and the Guarantors that: (i) the New Notes or
book-entry interests therein to be acquired by such holder and any beneficial
owner(s) of such Old Notes or interests therein ("Beneficial Owner(s)") in
connection with the Exchange Offer are being acquired by such holder and any
Beneficial Owner(s) in the ordinary course of
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business of the holder and any Beneficial Owner(s), (ii) the holder and each
Beneficial Owner are not participating, do not intend to participate, and have
no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate, in the
distribution of the New Notes, (iii) if the holder or Beneficial Owner is a
resident of the State of California, it falls under the self-executing
institutional investor exemption set forth under Section 25102(i) of the
Corporate Securities Law of 1968 and Rules 260.102.10 and 260.105.14 of the
California Blue Sky Regulations, (iv) if the holder or Beneficial Owner is a
resident of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it falls under the self-executing
institutional investor exemption set forth under Sections 203(c), 102(d) and (k)
of the Pennsylvania Securities Act of 1972, Section 102.111 of the Pennsylvania
Blue Sky Regulations and an interpretive opinion dated November 16, 1985, (v)
the holder and each Beneficial Owner acknowledge and agree that any person who
is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act") or is participating in the Exchange Offer for the
purpose of distributing the New Notes must comply with the registration and
prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a
secondary resale transaction of the New Notes or interests therein acquired by
such person and cannot rely on the position of the staff of the Commission set
forth in certain no-action letters, (vi) the holder and each Beneficial Owner
understand that a secondary resale transaction described in clause (v) above and
any resales of New Notes or interests therein obtained by such holder in
exchange for Old Notes or interests therein originally acquired by such holder
directly from the Company should be covered by an effective registration
statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item
507 or Item 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K of the Commission and (vii)
neither the holder nor any Beneficial Owner(s) is an "affiliate," as defined in
Rule 405 under the Securities Act, of the Company. Upon a request by the
Company, a holder or beneficial owner will deliver to the Company a legal
opinion confirming its representation made in clause (vii) above. If the
tendering holder of Old Notes is a broker-dealer (whether or not it is also an
"affiliate") or any Beneficial Owner(s) that will receive New Notes for its own
or their account pursuant to the Exchange Offer, the tendering holder will
represent on behalf of itself and the Beneficial Owner(s) that the Old Notes to
be exchanged for the New Notes were acquired as a result of market-making
activities or other trading activities, and acknowledge on its own behalf and on
the behalf of such Beneficial Owner(s) that it or they will deliver a prospectus
meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of
such New Notes; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus,
such tendering holder will not be deemed to admit that it or any Beneficial
Owner is an "underwriter" within the meaning of the Securities Act.
The enclosed "Instructions to Registered Holder or DTC Participant from
Beneficial Owner" form contains an authorization by the beneficial owners of Old
Notes for you to make the foregoing representations. You should forward this
form to your clients and ask them to complete it and return it to you. You will
then need to tender Old Notes on behalf of those of your clients who ask you to
do so.
The Company will not pay any fee or commission to any broker or dealer or
to any other persons (other than the Exchange Agent) in connection with the
solicitation of tenders of Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer. The Company
will pay or cause to be paid any transfer taxes payable on the transfer of Old
Notes to it, except as otherwise provided in the section "The Exchange
Offer -- Transfer Taxes" of the enclosed Prospectus.
Additional copies of the enclosed material may be obtained from the
Exchange Agent.
Very truly yours,
PREMIUM STANDARD FARMS, INC.
NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN OR IN THE ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE YOU
THE AGENT OF THE COMPANY OR THE EXCHANGE AGENT OR AUTHORIZE YOU TO USE ANY
DOCUMENT OR MAKE ANY STATEMENT ON THEIR BEHALF IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE
OFFER OTHER THAN THE DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED HEREWITH AND THE STATEMENTS CONTAINED
THEREIN.
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