Farmer Bros. Declares Dividend, Reports Proxy Voting Results
Friday December 17, 9:00 am ET

The Company also announced the certified proxy vote results from its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Dec. 14. As announced during the meeting, shareholders ratified the selection of the independent auditors and elected the three incumbent Directors who were on the proxy ballot, with each Director receiving more than 81% of the votes cast.

Here are the certified votes for the election of three Directors to a three-year term of office expiring at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

                          FOR               WITHOLD
                       ----------          ---------
Lewis A. Coffman       12,273,023          2,734,070
John Samore, Jr.       12,671,935          2,335,158
Kenneth R. Carson      12,251,756          2,755,337

Here is the vote to ratify the selection of Ernst & Young as independent auditors of the Company for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005:

      FOR          AGAINST      ABSTAIN        TOTAL
   ----------      -------      -------     ----------
   14,874,710      85,044       47,339      15,007,093

Of the 16,075,080 shares of common stock entitled to vote, a total of 15,007,093 shares (93.4%) were voted.

Farmer Bros. Co. is an institutional coffee roaster that sells a variety of coffee and allied products to the food service industry. The Company's signature trucks and vans bearing the "Consistently Good" logo are seen throughout Farmer Brothers' 28-state service area. Farmer Brothers has paid a dividend for 51 consecutive years, increased the dividend in each of the last seven consecutive years, and its stock price has grown on a split-adjusted basis from $1.80 a share in 1980.
 

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