Grains & Oilseeds Production Industry Competitors

Beer drinkers of the world, rejoice -- the Barth-Haas Group pulls out all the hops. The group grows, processes, stores, and trades hops -- one of the ingredients essential to the brewing of beer. It has customers worldwide, which it serves from its operations in Australia, China, Germany, the US, and the UK....

If it had to pick a mascot, Birdsong Corp. would probably pick Woodstock from the Peanuts gang. The company's primary operating division, Birdsong Peanuts, is a top US peanut processor. The unit shells raw peanuts (purchased from peanut farmers) and markets them to customers throughout the world....

China Grains and Oils Group (CGOG) processes and sells a variety of grain and oil products. Its activities include grain, oil food, and feedstuff processing, and domestic and international distribution of various food products. The company operates through some 21 subsidiaries that distribute wheat, corn, rice, oil and fat, oilseeds, coarse grain, and beans, among other products....

Columbia Grain processes, stores, and distributes peas, beans, wheat, barley, oats, oilseeds, and other pulses and grains grown in the western US. Founded in 1978, the company has grain elevators in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Washington. It is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and has regional headquarters in Great Falls, Montana, and Clarkston, Washington....

Della Natura Commodities grows, imports and sells organic food ingredients produced in South America. The company raises beans, lentils; grains, and seeds; and offers edible oils, fruit concentrates, dried fruits, fruit purees and pulps, dehydrated garlic and onion; and sweeteners, including cane sugar, molasses, honey, and corn syrup....

Farmers Rice Milling Company operates rice milling, drying, and storage facilities. It also manages rice farms and operates a rice-hull power plant that supplies all of the company's electricity. Farmers Rice processes 800 million pounds of long- and medium-grain rice per year at its southewestern Louisiana mill....

IOI Corporation has its hands in a variety of industries. The company is primarily engaged in palm oil production, which accounts for roughly half of its annual revenue. Its some 168,000 hectares in Malaysia are nearly all planted with oil palm. IOI also dabbles in real estate (IOI Properties, commercial and residential development); chemical production (IOI Oleochemical Industries, palm oil production and refining); specialty oils and fats; hotels; golf clubs; and landscaping....

Organic Bean & Grain goes with the grain, not against it. The agricultural company grows and harvests organic, non-genetically modified corn, spelt, and wheat, as well as soybeans, navy beans, and black turtle beans. Organic Bean & Grain also produces flour, meal, and oil products, and it purchases organic crops from other Michigan farmers....

Owensboro Grain Company produces edible oils and soy products at its headquarters near the Ohio River in western Kentucky. The company's soy products include meal, hull pellets, oil, and lecithin for human consumption and animal feeds. The company's SoyMAX, a soybean meal product, was developed in conjunction with a private consultant and specialists at Tyson Foods, Texas A&M, the University of Illinois....

These Producers aren't concerned with Broadway. Producers Rice Mill dries, mills, and markets over 50 million bushels rice each year, for sale domestically and overseas. The cooperative is one of the largest private-label producers of rice in the US, packaging more than 100 brands for the retail food, foodservice, and food manufacturing industries; its brands include Golden Harvest, Bamboo, Granada, LeGourmet, Mandalay, ParExcellence, and Thai Orchard....

Do tell, Purcell Jojoba International raises jojoba trees. The company then processes the trees' nuts into oils, esters, and beads so they can be used in consumer products such as lipstick and other makeup, shampoos and conditioners, moisturizers and shaving lotions, self-tanners and lip balm, cuticle softeners, nail oils and hardeners, baby lotions, oils, and items for the bath....

R.E.A. Holdings maintains oil palm operations -- the cultivation of oil palms and the production of crude palm oil -- in the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. The company owns about 65,000 hectares of land, and has access to 125,000 hectares, of which about 35,000 hectares (about 33,000 acres) are in production at any given time....

The South Dakota Wheat Growers Association is an agricultural cooperative that provides production and marketing services to 3,600 corn, soy, and wheat farmers, as well as fertilizer manufacturing. It has16 grain-handling sites, including storage silos and rail loading facilities for member farmers, and markets about 92 million bushels of grain (mostly corn, wheat, and soybeans) each year....

Amaggi Exportação e Importação, an operating division of Brazilian giant Grupo Andre Maggi, is an agricultural force to be reckoned with in its own right. The company is one of the country's leading soybean producing and processing firms. In addition to soy and corn products, it also imports and commercializes fertilizers....

Anglo-Eastern Plantations owns and is developing approximately 44,000 hectares of land in Indonesia (Bengkulu, North Sumatra, and Riau) and Malaysia on which it cultivates and harvests cocoa, oil palm, and rubber. The company continues to grow as it buys up surrounding plantations, along with the construction of new palm oil mills and the expansion of existing mills....

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) knows how to grind and squeeze a fortune out of humble plants. It is one of the world's largest processors of oilseeds, corn, and wheat. Its main offerings include soybean, peanut, and other oilseed products. From corn, it produces syrups, sweeteners, citric and lactic acids, and ethanol, among other items....

Bunge Limited is everywhere on the food chain. The company is a leading global soy and other oilseed processor, a leading South American fertilizer maker and provider, and, through subsidiary Bunge North America, a major US food processor....

Caramuru has a hand in feeding Brazilians of all shapes and sizes - human or otherwise. The company, Brazil's largest soy bean processor, produces seeds, extracts and refines edible oils, and distributes food products to wholesalers and retailers. Its soybean processing capacity exceeds 1,700 tons per day....

M.P. Evans Group owns long-term leases on and operates oil palm and rubber plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia. The group has plantation and property-development interests in Malaysia and beef-cattle farming operations in Australia. UK-headquartered, it has begun selling off its plantation investments in Malaysia while expanding its plantation operations in Indonesia and its beef-cattle operations Australia through acquisitions....

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