Haugerud quit Cargill in 1994 to oversee trading businesses for a few other firms.
Cargill in southern New Zealand near the town of Dunedin, which in Gaelic means Edinburgh.
Ag giants like Cargill, with 300 barges backed up on the Mississippi, are short on options.
McEVERS: The company partnered with food giant Cargill--recently bought the Brauer farm to produce antibiotic-free pork.
Ken Cargill was one of the BBC's all time greats and a diamond in British journalism.
He said Mr Cargill had been a "brilliant journalist with an incisive, curious mind".
Early this year Cargill also began selling one of the first polyols made from vegetable oil.
Curiously, however, Cargill Dow seems to want to play down that side of things.
Their dynasty starts in 1865 when William W. Cargill bought a grain warehouse in Iowa.
She then set up Galtere in 1997 with the same business plan she had developed at Cargill.
The environmentally friendly polymer was developed by a joint venture between Dow and the grain-trading giant Cargill.
The rich world food production systems depend upon the agricultural commodity giants like Cargill, ADM, Bunge and Dreyfus.
Cargill Inc. recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey on Aug. 3, 2011, in response to the outbreak.
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Cargill is now the second-largest private company in America, and the Cargills and MacMillans own 88% of it.
Not only is she almost entirely unknown, but the heiress to the Cargill agribusiness fortune passed away in 2006.
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It now has a 7% share of the 3.6-million-ton cocoa-grinding market, behind Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and Barry Callebaut.
Cargill's NatureWorks division deploys bacteria to turn corn into a biodegradable plastic for water bottles, clothing and food packaging.
After 18 months studying Cargill's PLA, Dow signed on as a 50-50 partner.
That means they can be separated by distillation and Cargill Dow's engineers have worked out how to do this cheaply.
Last year, Cargill, one big firm, bought the grain-trading operations of another, Continental.
Before Glencore, he worked at Cargill for six years, where he worked in and gained experience in the non-ferrous metals industry.
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Cargill said it capitalized on an "early and accurate read" of how weather problems earlier in the year were affecting markets.
Manufactured by NatureWorks, a subsidiary of agri-giant Cargill, Ingeo is now showing up in everything from socks and shirts (ecowearusa.com) to carpet tiles (interfaceflor.com).
Our most recent list of the richest Americans, calculated in late August, included seven members of the Cargill and MacMillan clan.
The number of billionaires from the Cargill and MacMillan families highlights that wealthy family fortunes tend to fragment over the years.
Cargill, Rio Tinto and Fedex made downward revisions their outlooks for the rest of the year for developed and developing countries.
The list of 2010 decedents includes six billionaires: John Kluge, Walter Shorenstein, Paul Milstein, Dan Duncan, George Steinbrenner, and Mary Janet Cargill.
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There seems to be no end of customers-including the Kennedy Space Center, Cargill, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Unilever and military bases.
"It's vertically integrated, from farm to fork, " says Mike Martin of Cargill.
Much of this is rice, wheat, chicken, corn and soybeans supplied by companies such as Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and Tyson Foods.
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