Cargill: cultivating growth

Need to hedge your mud exposure? Cargill Risk Management, a unit of the privately held US agribusiness giant, has been steadily growing by meeting the hedging needs of agricultural and energy commodities producers, consumers and investors through trademarked products such as MudHedge, Floored Average and Floor Plus. By Gallagher Polyn

Cargill, the largest private company in the US, with revenues of $50.8 billion in the year ending June 2002, is no longer content to be just an agricultural commodities trader and processor. “Cargill has been undergoing changes for the past three or four years,” says David Dines, president of Cargill Risk Management (CRM), the company’s nine-year-old commodities hedging service arm, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “It’s going from being a commodities processing merchandising company to