General Mills(GIS)
HQ US
Maker of Cheerios and many cereals; major corn/oat buyer.
agricultural · input
Cereal Grain (Oats / Corn / Wheat / Rice)
Bulk food grains for cereal. Corn/wheat are largely domestic, but US oat supply is ~97% Canadian (US farmers don't grow enough), making Canada critical to oat-based cereals/granola.
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Source countries
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Companies
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Goods affected
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Claims on record
What depends on it
Goods that need this input
1 essential American goods rely on cereal grain (oats / corn / wheat / rice) somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Where it comes from
Source countries
Share of global supply, by country.
| Country | Share of supply |
|---|---|
| USUnited States | 85% |
| CACanada | 15% |
Who makes it
Supplier companies
4 companies produce cereal grain (oats / corn / wheat / rice).
Grain Millers Inc.
HQ US
One of the largest oat millers in North America; sources prairie (Canadian) oats.
PepsiCo(PEP)
HQ US
Runs the same concentrate-to-bottler model for Pepsi and its beverage brands.
Richardson International Limited
HQ CA
Richardson International Limited (Winnipeg Manitoba; privately held by the Richardson family — one of Canada's wealthiest families; James Richardson & Sons, founded 1857) is Canada's largest Canadian-owned grain and oilseed company and the country's largest canola crusher. Richardson operates 60+ country elevators across the Canadian Prairies, canola crush facilities in Yorkton SK (325,000 tonne/year capacity), Lethbridge AB, Dunmore AB, and Clavet SK — collectively making Richardson the largest canola oil and canola meal producer in Canada. Richardson also operates Vancouver terminal and Thunder Bay terminal for export. As a privately held family company, Richardson is not subject to public shareholder pressure for asset sales or consolidation — giving it strategic continuity that publicly traded competitors lack. Richardson's crushing infrastructure converts raw canola seed into canola oil (food and biodiesel) and canola meal (protein feed for livestock), with both outputs sold domestically and for export.