Cargill Profile

Monday, December 11, 2006

Coming and Going

– a profile of Cargill Canada’s complex of operations, drawn from the Cargill website,
http://www.cargill.com/worldwide/canada.htm (accessed 11/12/06)

Cargill Foods operates a fully integrated beef processing facility, in High River, Alberta, with slaughter, fabrication, rendering and hide operations all under one roof. The plant processes 4,000 head of cattle each day. Approximately sixty percent of product is exported and forty percent is sold domestic.

Cargill Foods – Case Ready operates a multi-species case ready (ready for the retail meat case) meat packaging facility in Toronto, acquired 11 years ago. It was Cargill’s first case ready operation in North America and now produces case ready beef, pork, ground beef, poultry and sausage products.

Sun Valley Foods consists of a chicken processing plant in London, Ontario and a hatchery in Jarvis, Ontario. The plant processes 80,000 chickens each day. The hatchery on average produces 150,000 chicks per day, which are further processed at the London facility. Sun Valley is also expanding its frozen beef patty plant near Edmonton with the help of $1.5 million from the Government of Alberta. Cargill bought the former Caravelle Foods plant in 2004.

Cargill AgHorizons is the grain origination and crop inputs division of the Cargill, operating out of approximately 45 grain origination and crop input facilities in western Canada and 14 in Ontario. Cargill AgHorizons representatives help producers understand their costs of production, cash flow and storage needs and create a customized grain production and marketing plan for the producer. Cargill AgResource supplies crop production inputs and business management services to independent retailers throughout western Canada and on a limited scale in Ontario.

Cargill Animal Nutrition provides animal nutrition products and management consultation services to commercial livestock producers in western Canada .

Prairie Malt Limited, in Biggar, SK, supplies malt for beer production. Cargill became a joint venture partner in Prairie Malt Limited in 1998.

Cargill Specialty Canola Oils (CSCO) markets IMC (high oleic) varieties of canola oil under the Clear Valley® brand. CSCO used its expertise in research and biotechnology to develop canola varieties and hybrids.

Cargill Sweeteners supplies a variety of nutritive sweeteners, from corn syrups to sucrose to customized blends, used in beverages, baked goods, candies, cereals and prepared foods. Cargill's corn, waxy maize, and tapioca starches are used to thicken, texturize and coat diverse products from baked goods to meats to marshmallows.

Cargill Oil Seed’s facility in Clavet, Saskatchewan, is the largest soft-seed plant in North America, processing 2,400 tons of canola per day.

Saskferco Products, in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, is one of North America's largest producers of granular urea and anhydrous ammonia (from natural gas).

Cargill Salt is the world's largest marketer of salt products, including bulk de-icers, water-conditioning salt and consumer salt products.

Wilbur Chocolate, Burlington, Ontario, produces chocolate and confectionery products for commercial use. The business also functions as the sales office for Gerkens Cacoa, also a Cargilll company.

Egg Solutions Inc. is a joint venture, located in Etobicoke, Ontario, combining the expertise and reputation of Global Egg Corporation, a leading further processed egg supplier, with the innovation of Cargill’s Sunny Fresh Foods, a technologically advanced egg processor. The high-tech facility serves food manufacturers and foodservice companies with Egg Solutions Extended Shelf Life (ESL) refrigerated egg products, fully cooked egg entrees including omelet’s and egg patties, diced eggs and pre-cooked scrambled eggs.

Cargill Power and Gas Marketing is our North American natural gas trading operation based in Calgary. CPGM also markets and trades electricity, weather derivatives, coal and other commodities.