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Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Description

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company manufactures and sells protein meal, vegetable oil, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel, ethanol, and other value-added food and feed ingredients; and processes oilseeds, corn, wheat, cocoa, and other agricultural commodities. The company's Oilseeds Processing segment originates, merchandises, crushes, and processes oilseeds, such as soybeans and soft seeds into vegetable oils and protein meals. Its products include oilseeds products; crude vegetable and salad oils; margarine, shortening, and other food products; partially refined oils; oilseed protein meals; cottonseed flour; and cotton cellulose pulp. This segment also blends fertilizers; procures and processes cocoa beans into cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, chocolate, and various compounds; and supplies peanuts and peanut-derived ingredients, and agricultural commodity raw materials. Its Corn Processing segment converts corn into sweeteners, starches, and bio products. Its products include sweeteners, starch, syrup, glucose, and dextrose; alcohol, amino acids, and other specialty food and animal feed ingredients; ethyl alcohol; corn gluten feed and meals, and distillers' grains; citric and lactic acids, lactates, sorbitol, xanthan gum, and glycols; propylene and ethylene glycol; and sugarcane ethanol. The company's Agricultural Services segment engages in buying, storing, cleaning, and transporting agricultural commodities, such as oilseeds, corn, wheat, milo, oats, rice, and barley; and reselling those commodities primarily as food and feed ingredients. This segment is also involved in the merchandising of agricultural commodities and processed products; origination and processing of wheat flour; and processing and distribution of formula feeds, animal health and nutrition products, and edible beans. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company also engages in futures commission merchant business. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Decatur, Illinois.

Sector: Consumer Defensive
Industry: Farm Products
Keywords: S&P 500 Acid Alcohol Food Products Merchandising Foods Wheat Soybean Animal Health Glucose Animal Feed Cotton Flour Meals Chocolate Maize Biodiesel Nutrition Products Syrup Vegetable Oil Cellulose Sugarcane Energy Crops Cooking Oil Peanut Physical Objects Staple Foods Gluten Amino Acids Processed Products