text: **SIGNATURES**
  
  Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its 
  behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. 
  
  **HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION**
  
  By:  /s/ JOEL W. JOHNSON  Date: January 23, 2004 
  
  JOEL W. JOHNSON 
  Chairman of the Board, 
  President and Chief Executive Officer 
  
  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the 
  Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Each person whose signature to this report on Form 10-K appears below hereby constitutes 
  and appoints each of Michael J. McCoy, Jody H. Feragen and Mark P. Kalvoda as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of 
  substitution, to sign on his or her behalf individually and in the capacity stated below and to perform any acts necessary to be done in order to file the 
  Annual Report on Form 10-K and all amendments to this report on Form 10-K, and any and all instruments or documents filed as part of or in connection 
  with this report on Form 10-K or the amendments hereto, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney-in-fact and 
  agent, or his substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 