🌽 FeedADM · NYSEData Quality: Manual · Updated Jul 2026
🇺🇸 Archer-Daniels-Midland
Chicago, Illinois · Founded 1902 · www.adm.com
World's largest agricultural processor and animal nutrition company. ADM crushes soybeans and corn into the meal and oil that powers global animal feed supply chains. Its contract pricing on soybean meal is the de facto global benchmark — including India's poultry and aquaculture feed.
Employees
40,000
Worldwide
Processing Plants
270+
Globally
📋 Source: Official company filings📅 Reporting period: FY2023 annual🔄 Updated: Jul 2026⚠️ AnimStok is not affiliated with Archer-Daniels-Midland
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AnimStok Intelligence Analysis
Data-derived · Official filings · Jul 2026Algorithmic — not a financial recommendationRevenue declined 7.0% to $94.4B in FY2023, reflecting margin pressure typical of post-commodity-spike normalisation. EBITDA of 5.5% reflects the thin-margin nature of large-scale protein processing — volumes and plant utilisation are the key drivers of profitability here. Archer-Daniels-Midland's key export markets (South Korea, Japan) overlap with India's primary animal protein export destinations — Indian producers compete with Archer-Daniels-Midland products in these markets, making its pricing a relevant benchmark for Indian exporters.
ANIMSTOK COMPANY SUMMARY
Deterministic rule-based prose from official filings — not AI-generated
Low Confidence
Archer-Daniels-Midland is a publicly listed Feed (soybean-meal, corn-processing, animal-nutrition) sector company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Revenue was $94.4B in FY2023, with an EBITDA margin of 5.5% — consistent with the thin-margin nature of large-scale commodity protein processing. The company employs approximately 40,000 people across 270+ processing facilities. Key export markets include South Korea, Japan — markets that overlap with India's primary animal protein export destinations, making this company a relevant pricing benchmark for Indian exporters.
Financial data sourced from: ADM Annual Reports
WHAT CHANGED
Confirmed events linked to this company, then sector-level market context
🏢 Confirmed Company Eventsvia intel_event_companies
highAnnualResults
ADM Reports Delayed FY2023 Annual Results Following Internal Accounting Review
📅 2024-02-13
criticalOther
ADM Places CFO on Administrative Leave; Discloses Nutrition Segment Accounting Review
📅 2024-01-22
highExecutiveAppointment
ADM CEO Juan Luciano Announces Retirement Amid Accounting Investigation
📅 2024-01-22
🌐 Recent Market EventsPlatform-wide — not specific to Archer-Daniels-Midland
Most recent published events across all sectors. These are shown for market context only and are not linked to Archer-Daniels-Midland.
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Bunge Completes Acquisition of Viterra, Creating the World's Largest Grain Trader by Volume
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mediumQuarterlyResults
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📅 2024-05-29
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📅 2024-05-14
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📅 2024-05-09
WHY THIS MATTERS
Input Commodity
Corn, soybean meal, wheat bran, and DDGS are the primary raw materials. Input costs move directly with FAO Cereals and Vegetable Oil price indices.
Crush Margin
For integrated oilseed processors, the crush margin — the spread between soybean meal plus oil value and raw bean cost — is the key profitability driver and shifts with CBOT and NCDEX prices.
Downstream Demand
Compound feed sales volumes track poultry, swine, and aquaculture production growth. Indian layer and broiler sector expansion is the primary demand driver for domestic feed producers.
Logistics
Port throughput capacity, ocean freight rates, and government import duty changes — effective rates for corn, DDGS, and canola meal — directly affect landed ingredient costs in India.
RELEVANT MARKET INDICATORS
FAO indices relevant to Archer-Daniels-Midland's cost and revenue exposure — not company performance drivers
Related Intelligence
AnimStok value-added intelligence built on top of public indicators
FAO Cereals Price Index
FAO IndexCorn, wheat, and barley — the primary raw material cost inputs for compound feed manufacturers globally and in India.
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FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index
FAO IndexSoybean oil and palm oil components — relevant for feed producers processing or purchasing oilseed co-products.
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WHAT TO WATCH
Monitoring variables — not procurement recommendations
1USDA WASDE monthly report (released first Friday of each month) — global corn, soybean, and wheat supply and demand estimates
2India grain procurement and MSP policy announcements — affects domestic price floor for wheat and corn
3CBOT corn and soybean futures — the global pricing reference for feed ingredient procurement contracts
4India compound feed production data — CLFMA quarterly industry capacity utilisation report
5Baltic Dry Index — ocean freight costs embedded in grain import landed price calculations
6FAO Cereals Price Index monthly update (released approximately the 6th of each month)
EVIDENCE & METHODOLOGY
Data sourceOfficial company filings — annual reports, investor relations
VerificationProfile: partially_verified · Financial: partially_verified
Revenue periodFY2023 annual
Summary methodDeterministic rule-based prose from filing data — no language model involved
Event linksintel_event_companies: 3 confirmed links — none exist yet for this company
Trade flowsAll trade flow records for this company are draft status and are not displayed publicly
Confidence logicVerified profile + verified financials → Medium; any unverified field → Low; never High without corroborating event or trade data
DISCLAIMER
This intelligence summary is compiled from publicly available official company filings. AnimStok is not affiliated with Archer-Daniels-Midland and does not claim any endorsement. No investment, procurement, or commercial advice is implied. Data may not reflect post-filing corporate events.
Revenue History
2020–2023 · USD Billion
Business Segments
Revenue breakdown by division
Ag Services & Oilseeds65%
Carbohydrate Solutions20%
Nutrition15%
Key Brands
Consumer & trade brands
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Global Footprint
Operating & export countries
🏭 Operates / manufactures in
USAIndiaArgentinaBrazilSingaporeGermany
📦 Exports to
MexicoEUIndiaSouth KoreaJapanChinaSoutheast Asia
Source: Archer-Daniels-Midland annual report FY2023 · Operates in 6 countries · Exports to 7 markets
Key Facts
What matters about Archer-Daniels-Midland
Processes 400M+ bushels of grain annually across 270 plants in 70 countries
CBOT soybean meal spot price directly reflects ADM crush margins — the same benchmark Indian poultry companies use
Nutrition segment (Neovia acquisition, 2018) makes ADM a direct supplier of premixes to Asian livestock producers
India imports ~2M tonnes of soybean meal/year — priced against ADM and Bunge South American contracts
ADM restated FY2022–23 financials in Jan 2024 following inter-segment pricing irregularities
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Latest Quarterly Highlight
Quarterly earnings data for Archer-Daniels-Midland is updated periodically. Check the investor relations page for the most recent quarterly report.
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Data Quality
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Partially Verified
Profile Data Status
Last Reviewed: Not yet reviewed
About this rating:“Partially Verified” means selected profile information has been checked against identified sources. It is not an audit, endorsement, credit rating, or investment recommendation.
Recent Intelligence
highAnnualResults
ADM Reports Delayed FY2023 Annual Results Following Internal Accounting Review
📅 2024-02-13
criticalOther
ADM Places CFO on Administrative Leave; Discloses Nutrition Segment Accounting Review
📅 2024-01-22
highExecutiveAppointment
ADM CEO Juan Luciano Announces Retirement Amid Accounting Investigation
📅 2024-01-22
Procurement
Source Feed Ingredients via AnimStok
Corn, soybean meal, and feed premixes — benchmarked against Archer-Daniels-Midland's contract pricing. Verified Indian suppliers.
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Official Sources
Data sourced from official company filings. AnimStok is not affiliated with Archer-Daniels-Midland.
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