Producer
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (Chicago IL; NYSE: ADM; ~$85B revenue FY2023; founded 1902) is the world's largest agricultural commodity processor and a major corn merchandiser supplying livestock feed. ADM's AG Services and Oilseeds segment operates 270+ facilities including corn origination elevators throughout Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and Minnesota. ADM's Animal Nutrition segment produces lysine, threonine, and other amino acid feed additives used in swine feed premixes globally. ADM's corn wet milling operations (Decatur IL flagship plant; Cedar Rapids IA) produce corn starch, corn syrup, corn oil, ethanol, and DDGS (distillers dried grains with solubles) — DDGS is sold as a protein-energy supplement in swine diets at inclusion rates of 10-20%. ADM is simultaneously the largest US corn merchandiser, a producer of DDGS feed ingredients, and a supplier of amino acid additives that enable lower-protein corn-soy diets in hog production. ADM faced a significant accounting investigation in 2023-2024: the company disclosed that its Nutrition segment had misreported results; CEO Juan Luciano resigned in January 2024 amid DOJ/SEC inquiry, creating management uncertainty during a period of corn market volatility.
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Goods downstream
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What they make
10 inputs Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) supplies
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agricultural
Corn Grain (Swine Feed — Primary Energy) →
agricultural
Soybeans →
agricultural
Pharmaceutical-Grade Dextrose (Glucose) for PD Solution →
agricultural
Rapeseed / canola seed →
agricultural
Soy Lecithin (Food Grade Emulsifier) →
agricultural
Soybeans →
agricultural
Rapeseed / canola seed →
agricultural
Soybean Meal (Animal Feed Protein) →
chemical
L-Lysine HCl (Essential Amino Acid Supplement) →
agricultural
Vital Wheat Gluten →
Where it shows up
Goods downstream
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Where they make it
6 facilities
ADM Clinton Iowa BioProducts Facility →
USIowa · processing
ADM's primary US lysine and feed amino acid fermentation facility; Clinton Iowa is ADM's historic corn wet milling center; one of the original commercial US lysine production sites; produces lysine, ethanol, corn gluten feed, and starch from corn wet milling
ADM Corn Processing Complex (Decatur, IL) →
USIllinois · manufacturing
ADM's flagship corn processing complex in Decatur, Illinois — the largest single corn wet milling facility in the world by processing capacity. The Decatur campus processes approximately 100+ million bushels of corn per year, producing corn starch, HFCS, ethanol, corn oil, and DDGS. DDGS from the Decatur plant are sold to Midwest swine and poultry producers as a protein-energy feed supplement. The Decatur facility is considered critical agricultural processing infrastructure — a fire, flood, or disruption here would significantly reduce US corn processing capacity. Source: https://www.adm.com/en-us/locations/us/decatur-il/
ADM Decatur Illinois Lecithin Complex →
USDecatur, Macon County, Illinois · chemical_plant
ADM's global headquarters and major soy processing campus in Decatur, IL — the same city as Cargill's lecithin plant. ADM produces soy lecithin as a byproduct of its massive corn and soy crush operations. Decatur is home to both ADM and Cargill major soy lecithin operations within miles of each other.
ADM Decatur Soybean Processing Complex →
USIllinois · processing
ADM's flagship soybean processing facility; also serves as company headquarters; one of the largest individual crush plants in the US; produces soybean meal, soybean oil, lecithin, and specialty products; anchors ADM's US oilseed processing network
ADM Hamburg Rapeseed Processing Complex (Hamburg, Germany) →
DEHamburg · processing
ADM's Hamburg Germany rapeseed crushing and refining complex — one of the largest rapeseed processors in Northern Europe. Produces rapeseed oil (for biodiesel blending under EU RED II/III mandates and food use) and rapeseed meal (protein feed). Hamburg is the primary crush hub for German and imported rapeseed serving the EU biodiesel mandate supply chain. ADM Hamburg processes both domestically grown EU rapeseed (from Germany, France, Poland) and imported rapeseed (from Canada and Australia when EU supply is tight). Source: https://www.adm.com/en-us/solutions/processing/
ADM Spiritwood Soybean Crush Facility →
USNorth Dakota · crushing_plant
Opened September 2023 with Marathon; 150,000 bushels/day; produces soybean oil for renewable diesel feedstock.
What else they do
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Ag Services and Oilseeds
50%Carbohydrate Solutions
25%Nutrition
20%Other
5%
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Did you know2023
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) produces soy lecithin as a byproduct of the same soy crush operations that produce soybean oil, soybean meal (animal feed), and increasingly soy protein concentrate for meat alternatives. ADM's Decatur, Illinois campus is simultaneously the company's global headquarters, one of the world's largest soy and corn processing sites, and a major soy lecithin production center — creating a single geographic concentration where lecithin for chocolate emulsification, soybean oil for food frying, and soy protein for Beyond Meat-type products all share infrastructure. ADM's 2022 financial fraud investigation (employee self-reported to SEC; shares fell 24% in January 2024) disrupted the company's management but not production operations.
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