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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000921895-16-005984
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DFAN14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20161102
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20161102
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20161102

SUBJECT COMPANY:	

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FARMER BROTHERS CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000034563
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MISCELLANEOUS FOOD PREPARATIONS & KINDRED PRODUCTS [2090]
		IRS NUMBER:				950725980
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-34249
		FILM NUMBER:		161968877

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		13601 NORTH FREEWAY, SUITE 200
		CITY:			FORT WORTH
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			76177
		BUSINESS PHONE:		682 549 6600

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		P O BOX 77057
		CITY:			FORT WORTH
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			76177

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Waite Carol Farmer
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001314571

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		FARMER BROS CO
		STREET 2:		20333 S NORMANDIE AV
		CITY:			TORRANCE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			90502
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STATES</B></FONT></P>

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AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></FONT></P>

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14A</B></FONT></P>

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14a-101)</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROXY STATEMENT</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0">SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">(Amendment No. )</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Filed by the Registrant &#9744;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Check the appropriate box:</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">&#9744;</TD><TD>Preliminary Proxy Statement</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" STYLE="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top"><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">&#9746;</TD><TD>Definitive Additional Materials</TD></TR></TABLE>



<P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" STYLE="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top"><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">&#9744;</TD><TD>Soliciting Material Under Rule 14a-12</TD></TR></TABLE>



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    <TD STYLE="width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: Black 0.5pt solid"><P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Farmer
BRos. Co.</FONT></P>



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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; vertical-align: top"><P>(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</P>

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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: left">
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: Black 0.5pt solid"><P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Carol
Farmer Waite</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Carol
L. Waite Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1964
Jeanne Ann Farmer Grossman Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1964
Richard Francis Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1964
Roy Edward Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1964
Carol Lynn Farmer Waite Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1969
Roy Edward Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1969
Jeanne Ann Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1969
Richard Francis Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1969
Carol Lynn Farmer Waite Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1969
Roy F. Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1969
Emily Marjorie Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1972
Roy Edward Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1972
Carol Lynn Farmer Waite Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1972
Jeanne Anne Farmer Grossman Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1972
Richard Francis Farmer</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1972
Roy F. Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1972
Emily Marjorie Farmer Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1987
Roy F. Farmer Trust I</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1987
Roy F. Farmer Trust II</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1987
Roy F. Farmer Trust III</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1987
Roy F. Farmer Trust IV</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1988
Roy F. Farmer Trust I</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Farmer
Insurance Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">1984
Jonathan Michael Waite Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">The
2012 Waite Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">2012
Grossman Irrevocable Trust</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Austin
Waite</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Emily
Waite</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Jonathan
Michael Waite</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Suzanna
Waite</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Scott
Grossman</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Brett
Grossman</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Brynn
Grossman</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Tom
Mortensen</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">John
Samore, Jr.,</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase">Jennifer
Gonzalez-Yousef</FONT></P>



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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; vertical-align: top"><P>(Name of Persons(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if Other Than the Registrant)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):</P>

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which the filing fee is calculated and state how it was determined):</TD></TR></TABLE>

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box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing for which the offsetting
fee was paid previously. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the form or schedule and the date of
its filing.</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">(1)</TD><TD>Amount previously paid:</TD></TR></TABLE>

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were provided to participants in the Farmers Bros. Co. Amended and Restated Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;),
held in the Farmer Bros. Co. Employee Stock Ownership Trust by GreatBanc Trust Company, as trustee of the Plan, in order to provide
plan participants with procedural instructions regarding directing the trustee&rsquo;s voting of shares held in the Plan.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-align: center"><B>MATERIALS FROM SAVE FARMER BROS.&nbsp;</B></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">To:</TD><TD>Participants in the Farmer Bros. Co. Amended and Restated Employee Stock Ownership Plan, held in the Farmer Bros. Co. Employee
Stock Ownership Trust (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;)</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">Re:</TD><TD>The 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Farmer Bros. Co.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">GreatBanc Trust Company serves as trustee
under the Farmer Bros. Co. Employee Stock Ownership Trust (the &ldquo;Trust&rdquo;).&nbsp; As a participant in and a named fiduciary
(i.e., the responsible party identified in the voting section of the Plan and the Trust) under the Plan, you have the right to
direct GreatBanc Trust Company, as trustee, how to vote the shares of Farmer Bros. Co. common stock allocated to your Plan account.&nbsp;
The Plan and Trust provide that the trustee will vote the shares for which voting instructions have not been received, as well
as any unallocated shares, in the trustee&rsquo;s sole discretion, which is a change from previous years.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">The 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
of Farmer Bros. Co. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo; or &ldquo;Farmer Bros.&rdquo;) will be held on December 8, 2016. The Carol L. Waite
Trust, together with certain other individuals who joined the Carol L. Waite Trust in its solicitation (collectively, &ldquo;Save
Farmer Bros.&rdquo;) has prepared a solicitation of Company stockholders regarding the following purposes:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0 0.75in">1. To elect Save Farmer Bros.&rsquo;s three (3)
nominees, Tom Mortensen, John Samore, Jr., and Jennifer Gonzalez-Yousef (each a &ldquo;Nominee&rdquo; and, collectively, the &ldquo;Nominees&rdquo;),
to the Board as Class I directors to serve for three-years&rsquo; terms of office expiring at the Company&rsquo;s 2019 annual meeting
of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0 0.75in">2. To ratify the selection of Deloitte &amp; Touche
LLP as the Company&rsquo;s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0 0.75in">3. To hold an advisory (non-binding) vote to approve
the compensation paid to the Company&rsquo;s named executive officers; and</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0 0.75in">4.To transact such other business as may properly
come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Enclosed please find materials including
the Proxy Statement prepared by Save Farmer Bros.&nbsp; Please review these materials carefully before completing a voting instruction
form, either WHITE or GOLD as explained below.&nbsp; <B>You will not be entitled to vote the Farmer Bros. shares allocated to your
Plan account in person at the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and must return either a WHITE or GOLD form if you wish to vote
your Plan shares.</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">If you wish to vote the shares allocated
to your Plan account in favor of Save Farmer Bros.&rsquo; nominees, you must complete, sign, date and return the enclosed WHITE
voting instruction form or submit your voting instructions by telephone or Internet in accordance with the instructions set forth
in the enclosed WHITE voting instruction form.&nbsp; If you wish to vote the shares allocated to your Plan account in favor of
the Farmer Bros.&rsquo; nominees, you must complete the GOLD voting instruction form that will be sent to you under separate cover.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Please note that a separate solicitation
of stockholders (the &ldquo;Farmer Bros. Solicitation&rdquo;) has been prepared by the Company.&nbsp; The undersigned trustee under
separate cover will be sending you information regarding the Farmer Bros. Solicitation, including a Proxy Statement prepared by
the Company.&nbsp; The Company has submitted a separate slate of three nominees to serve as directors of Farmer Bros.&nbsp; <B>In
order to instruct the trustee to vote for the Nominees, you must follow the instructions set forth in the enclosed WHITE voting
instruction form.&nbsp; In order to vote for the Farmer Bros. nominees, you must follow the instructions set forth in the GOLD
voting instruction form that will be sent to you under separate cover.</B> &nbsp; It is important that you understand that the
latest dated voting instruction form received by the trustee will be the instruction form used by the trustee to vote the Company
shares allocated to your account under the Plan.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">The number of shares of Farmer Bros.
Co. that you are eligible to vote is based on the balance of your Plan account on October&nbsp;17, 2016, the record date for the
determination of stockholders eligible to vote.&nbsp; Your instructions are confidential, will not be shared with the Company or
any of its employees, directors, executives or representatives, or any member of Save Farmer Bros., and will be known only by GreatBanc
Trust Company or its independent tabulation agent.&nbsp; We encourage you to exercise your voting rights under the Plan.&nbsp;
Please review the enclosed documents carefully before deciding how to vote the shares of Farmer Bros. Co. allocated to your Plan
account.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Please mark, sign and date the enclosed
WHITE voting instruction form or the GOLD voting instruction form sent to you under separate cover in accordance with the instructions
therein, and return it to our independent tabulation agent in the enclosed envelope or submit your voting instructions by telephone
or Internet in accordance with the instructions set forth in the enclosed WHITE voting instruction form or GOLD voting instruction
form that will be sent to you under separate cover.&nbsp; We cannot give assurance that voting instruction forms received later
than 5:00&nbsp;p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on December&nbsp;5, 2016 will be honored.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">If you do not timely return either
a WHITE or a GOLD voting instruction form or submit your voting instructions by telephone or Internet in accordance with the instructions
set forth in the enclosed WHITE voting instruction form or GOLD voting instruction form, then the shares held in your Plan account
will be voted by the trustee in its sole discretion</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Your voting instruction form will be
kept strictly confidential.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0; text-indent: 1.5in">Very truly yours,</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0.05pt 0 0 166.5pt">GREATBANC TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE OF THE FARMER
BROS. CO. EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP TRUST</P>



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