Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. ADM

What this company does

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company purchases crops from thousands of farmers around the world and transforms those raw commodities into products serving the food, feed, fuel, and industrial and consumer products sectors. Its operations are organized into three reportable segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. The Ag Services and Oilseeds segment originates, merchandises, transports, and stores agricultural raw materials, and crushes and processes oilseeds including soybeans and soft seeds such as cottonseed, sunflower seed, canola, rapeseed, and flaxseed. The Carbohydrate Solutions segment mills corn and wheat and converts them into products and ingredients used in food and beverage applications, including sweeteners, starches, syrups, glucose, wheat flour, and dextrose. The Nutrition segment serves food, beverage, and nutritional supplement markets for humans, as well as feed and pet food markets, and manufactures and distributes ingredients including plant-based proteins, flavors and colors derived from nature, emulsifiers, probiotics, and enzymes. To transport its products, the company owns or leases trucks, trailers, railroad tank and hopper cars, river barges, towboats, and ocean-going vessels.

Written from the business description in Archer-Daniels-Midland Co's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 17 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.