https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ivate-company-reboots-a-153-year-old-strategy “The days of ‘Hey, we’re going to buy your crops, we’re going to store it, we’re going to play the carry’—you know, sell it at a profit—it’s over,” says Cargill Chief Executive Officer David MacLennan.
Hello TraDaTor. Thank you very much for this article about Cargill. It is far away my dream and passionate company. I believe that is tremendous strong and very very secretive. I believe that have a psychosis for food and what people eat. That thing makes me to respect it. I have the same passion for food and humans... With my small opinion maybe have the best intelligence about crops. I think that watch weather and take satellite data for crops. I know that in the past ( I will not say how ) when receive the MDA CropCAST for study I learn that Cargill receive that report. It is a publication that have weather and crop projection data from MDA Federal: http://www.mdaus.com/ . Here, I want to tell you that in the past I had a passion for satellite imagery. I had a contact within a Person in this company: https://www.gdacorp.com/ , Dr. Dmitry Varlyguin, that help me to understand better this science. Because, I have a passion for Cargill, I asked him to tell me if provide satellite imagery to this company. Told me kindly that have make contracts with companies and it is not possible to tell me a such information. Another thing here that I want to tell you is that I have another mad thing in my mind and make some small thoughts for that. It is basically relative to the grasshoppers and mormon crickets. Suppose that exist a huge attack from these two species in crops. How I will have the best intelligence for these attacks. I think that the attacks will cover it the local media like newspapers, internet sites, and news agencies with written text. I have the time to contact with a company that can track that kind of informations with their LexisNexis system: https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/gateway.page . I do not create a subscription there after their comments to me from that company. Another thing that I want to tell you here it is that you can not find a lot of informations about Cargill. Here after a research that have make to the internet I bought some books. Very sadly I have not read it yet. It is about Cargill. Here are the books: 1) Invisible Giant, Cargill and its Transnational Strategies. Author: Brewster Kneen. I have the second Edition. 2) Cargill TRADING THE WORLD’S GRAIN Author: Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. Darmouth / New England 3) Cargill GOING GLOBAL Author: Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. Darmouth / New England. Another book that describe very well the Grains Markets is this book: Merchants of Grain Author: Dan Morgan Viking. This book I have read it. Describes very well the small number of companies that trade the World’s Grains. Worth a lot someone to read it. I will stop here because I hope to cover a lot the Cargill company. If find something else I promise to publish it here. Kind Regards, George Kanellopoulos.
The only one I have read is "Merchants of Grain". Thanks for the references. I have never really used satellite imagery or even meteorology in my trading, I just trade based on monday's USDA crop progress reports and weather forecasts when it comes to crop estimates. I agree that those tools are really powerful today. I love watching tankertrackers on twitter for energy.