News Analysis: As To Global Agriculture, It Pays To Know The “A,B,C, And D” Of It since those letters represent the Corporations which are Omnipotent and Omnipresent in the Industry. Archer Daniels Midland Co., Bunge Ltd., Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus are the “Giants of Agriculture”. Collectively, their Gross Revenues, from their various businesses are over $330+Billion a Year; with 238,000+ Employees World-Wide; Not trifling sums. To many people around the Globe, the Company Names are unfamiliar yet, their impact in Agriculture is of Tsunami Proportions.
Some individuals decry “Big Business”. However, these very entities allow for the ‘Efficiencies of Scale’ to keep Food: Prices, Quality, and Variety more attractive to customers. Without the Companies’ activities Agriculture would be ‘Less than the Best’.
Reality.
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