Top Crop Production companies

Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, our privately held company employs 142,000 people in 65 countries. We help customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and are committed to sharing our global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges.

Established in 1989, Olam is today a leading global agri-business operating from seed to shelf, supplying food and industrial raw materials to over 22,000 customers worldwide. Our team of 72,000 employees across 66 countries has built leadership positions in several of our 18 platforms, including cocoa, coffee, edible nuts, spices, rice and cotton. We source from 4.7 million farmers and their communities. We are listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and are among the top 30 primary listed companies by market capitalisation.

We’ve been brewing beer since 1777, ever since an enterprising Charles Hall started brewing beer for the troops stationed in Weymouth whilst they waited to face Napoleon. Over the years we’ve continued to innovate in beer and pubs, ensuring that we remain an independent family company at the forefront of the brewing and hospitality industry. Our pub estate has grown to over 200, stretching from Bristol to Exeter, London to Brighton and you can find our award-winning range of Badger bottled ales nationally in leading supermarkets and off licenses.

Farm animals mean business for BRF - Brasil Foods. Among the world's largest food companies, the Brazilian provider of fresh and frozen meats operates its own farms, slaughterhouses, animal-feed units, incubators, and processing plants. The company's lineup comprises three thousand-plus items, including chicken, pork, some beef and dairy, as well as a slew of processed foods (representing 60% sales), such as butter, cheese, desserts, ready-to-eat meals, pasta, and pizza. Products are sold under many brands -- Perdigão, Sadia, Batavo, Chester, and Perdix -- at home and abroad. Founded in 1934, BRF - Brazil Foods was transformed by a $3.8 billion-merger of its former company, Perdigão, with rival Sadia in 2009.

AB Agri is a £1.2 billion animal nutrition and agricultural services business, part of Associated British Foods. We operate across the agri-food supply chain from research to retailer, straddling high performance compound feeds and feed co-products from the food, drink and biofuels industries, feed micro-ingredients, analytical and consultancy services, livestock and poultry marketing. AB Agri began in 1984, working with British Sugar to take bi-product from sugar factories and convert it into nutritious and cost effective animal feed. The business has rapidly expanded through acquisition, technological expertise, nutritional innovation and market development. AB Agri now employs more than 3,000 people and supplies products and services to farmers, feed and food manufacturers, processors, and retailers selling products in more than 70 countries.

LDC's diversified portfolio covers the entire agriculture and food value chain, from farm to fork. We rely on our global reach and extensive asset network to deliver for customers and consumers around the world – safely, reliably and responsibly.

Tereos' roots reach back 200 years but it was twice reborn during the last few years; first, after being spun off from Eridania Béghin-Say in 2001 and second, when it partnered with French co-op group, Union SDA, in 2004. Tereos, now a co-op of other co-ops, is one of the world's top sugar companies. Its 12,000 sugar-beet growers produce some of Europe's leading consumer sugar brands (l'Antillaise, C'est la Vie, Les Pure Canne). Tereos also makes industrial sweeteners, as well as ethyl alcohol, ethanol for fuel, and alcohols for distillers. In 2010 Tereos spun off most of its non-sugar-beet business in a new company called Tereos Internacional and formed a stevia-production joint venture with PureCircle.