The $300 million center in Iowa will turn locally grown corn into a plant-based chemical that can be used to make consumer goods.
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About 475 workers at the company’s Wayzata headquarters will lose their jobs.
The fast food chain also names Tyson Foods, JBS, and other meat producers as defendants.
Oils from the plants could be as a substitute for jet fuel or diesel, among other uses.
Sikes assumes the top job Jan.1, when MacLennan becomes executive chair.
Describing food as a "human right," Minnesota-based Cargill and General Mills are continuing limited operations in Russia despite sanctions.
The company anticipates additional future jobs at the Elk River location after the upgrade is completed in spring of 2023.
With venture funding driving entrepreneurship today, Minnesota's big businesses want to create internal startup cultures to reconnect with their inventive roots.
U.S. Navy vet Greg Jones has taken a job as Cargill’s first chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.
The Minnesota-based agricultural giant says it is forming a joint venture to buy Mississippi-based Sanderson Farms.
Cargill is powering through the pandemic, but its top executive worries about income inequality and government policies that stymie economic growth.