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Cargill Annual Report 2021 - FINAL
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2021 Annual Report
2 Extraordinary times | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
Letter to stakeholders
The challenges brought on by the past year have been We acquired a specialty beauty ingredients company that
described as many things: unprecedented, historic and will allow us to provide more sustainable, nature-derived
unforgettable. But when we think about what we’ve navi- solutions to the world’s leading beauty brands. And we
gated together, this year was nothing short of extraordinary. invested in breakthrough startups, including those aimed at
improving the health and immunity of infants and children.
Our fiscal year began last June with tremendous global
uncertainty, as the COVID-19 pandemic continuously Across our portfolio, we are focusing our innovative energy
navigate these climate change in real time created urgency to build a more
sustainable economy, including in food and agriculture.
for the environment. We are investing in carbon markets to
reduce emissions for our customers and ourselves, con-
extraordinary
necting farmers and ranchers to new sources of revenue.
Despite the complexity of confronting these and other issues
As part of this, we are advancing the adoption of regenera-
simultaneously, it has been a year of hope. We are incredibly
tive agricultural practices across millions of acres.
times.
proud of how our teams helped our customers, partners and
one another through trying circumstances, coming out of
this extraordinary year stronger together.
We made progress toward our climate commitment to
Smart, sustainable growth reduce our absolute operational emissions 10% by 2025
Million metric tons CO 2 e emitted across global operations
Our strategy for Cargill’s future starts with being even more
customer-driven in everything we do. This fiscal year, our We made progress toward our water commitments
teams’ resilience helped our customers keep their restau- We are committed to achieving 52% progress made toward imple-
rants open, shelves full and animals fed. This enabled us to sustainable water management in all mentation of water stewardship
achieve excellent results, with total revenues that climbed priority watersheds by 2030. We’ve program requirements at all priority
initiated projects in 19 priority water- facilities by 2025
17% to $134.4 billion. We enter the new year with a clear sheds and have achieved our target
plan for growth, a healthy balance sheet, and a strong set of in four.
capabilities that allow us to do more for our customers in an
ever-changing environment.
To learn more about our climate and water targets, please visit
the CDP responses in our Reporting Hub.
3 Extraordinary times | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
Looking forward
Employees by geography One area where we fell far short of our expectations this year
was in safety. We lost six people to fatal incidents during the
year, which is unacceptable. Keeping everyone safe while
14% working at Cargill is our deepest commitment, and we will
Europe, not rest until we reach our goal of zero harm. Our culture of
30% Middle East
and Africa
speaking up to address the hazards we see – combined with
safer controls and more focus on mitigating risks around our
North
America 35% most dangerous tasks – will help us get there.
Asia In recent months, we announced several changes to
Pacific Cargill’s Executive Team. We look forward to the fresh per-
21% spectives and deep expertise of both those joining the team
Latin and those moving into new roles. We want to thank David
America Dines and Frank van Lierde, who announced their retire-
ments from the team after three decades helping to lead
the company. Lastly, we welcomed Dr. Omar Ishrak, former
executive chairman and CEO of Medtronic, to Cargill’s board
of directors. His track record of building diverse teams and
opening new growth markets – especially in Asia – will be
Putting people first Nourishing the world invaluable as we pursue our strategic objectives.
August 9, 2021
*After considering appropriate factors expected to influence an individual’s pay such as country, job family, pay band and tenure, men and women in banded roles performing the same or significantly similar work
are on average paid the same. The most recent analysis included all banded employees, except those in trading and sales roles on commission or direct drive incentive plans.
4 Extraordinary solutions | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
We deliver
keeping its restaurants stocked with seasoned ground beef and steak meat.
Throughout the world, we helped customers get what they needed –
enough soybean meal for Wens, the top yellow chicken and hog producer 64 million eggs
extraordinary in China; enough wheat and vegetable oils for Alicorp, the largest food
manufacturer in Peru; and enough cocoa and chocolate to help European
As demand for foodservice ingredients
fluctuated during the pandemic, Cargill
solutions to
helped divert supplies to where they were
baked goods producers meet growing retail demand. most needed: retail stores. We worked
with U.S. foodservice customers to
repackage and sell 64 million shell eggs
our customers
through retailers.
4X
chocolatiers, imagine fresh
ideas to delight consumers.
The state-of-the-art chocolate
experience center broke ground
this year. When it opens in
Shengwang Farm in China’s 2022, customers will be able to
hog herd has grown that co-create new products with
much in nine years using Cargill’s chocolate experts, see
our feed, our Diamond V gut concepts come to life in our pilot
health additives and our data plant and up their chocolate
management systems. savvy through in-depth training.
6 Extraordinary partnerships | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
that change
tion hub AgTech Garage selected six startups for funding, mentoring and technical shipping to move vital food and
support. These innovators are exploring everything from monitoring tree health goods, but doing so creates
significant CO 2 emissions.
remotely to quantifying carbon in the soy supply chain to using artificial intelligence
the world, we
Cargill is leading the maritime
for preventing forest fires, as pictured below. (Photo courtesy of umgrauemeio) industry’s decarbonization
on many fronts, including by
exploring wind propulsion.
extraordinary
world-class yacht racing to bulk
cargo ships, with help from EU
Horizon 2020 funding.
We are partnering
on scalable
solutions that
will help protect
millions of hectares
of forests in South
America.
7 Extraordinary partnerships | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
Preventing disease
Emerging infectious disease and antimicro-
bial resistance are among the greatest threats
to global human health, but keeping farm
animals healthy can reduce risk. To do so, the
U.S. Agency for International Development
selected a Cargill-led consortium to
$10.5 strengthen animal agriculture in Africa and
Asia. Through the five-year Transformational
Joining
million Strategies for Farm Output Risk Mitigation
Funds from Cargill and our
customers have supported a
(TRANSFORM) project, our animal health
researchers and other experts will improve with farmers
decade-long partnership with
CARE to transform the lives of
West African cocoa farmers and
data surveillance, antimicrobial use and
on-farm practices to help farm animals live
healthier and enhance global health security.
to do more
their families. In areas where our
programs operate, women are
more involved in decision-making,
nutrition is up and community-
led action plans are bolstering
Regenerating 10 million acres
infrastructure. Regenerative agricultural practices have all sorts of benefits – from improving water
quality and soil health to reducing and sequestering carbon to helping farmers earn
more. That’s why Cargill and our partners are working with farmers so they can adopt
these practices on 10 million acres of North America row crop farmland by 2030.
4.1 Growers like Lance and Heidi Lillibridge have seen the impact on their 2,000 acres in
million Iowa. They have started strip tilling, planting cover crops and tracking soil nutrients.
Now, their soil is healthier, they use less fertilizer and erosion is much lower.
Global attendance at
our farmer trainings for
sustainable agricultural
practices since 2017, Building an organic supply chain -1.7M tons of CO2e
with a goal of 10 million When Bell & Evans needed more organic feed ingredients for Our BeefUp Sustainability initiative
by 2030 is working with farmers and
its premium poultry products in North America, the company
ranchers to cut emissions from
turned to Cargill. Going organic at the scale Bell & Evans our North American beef supply
needed would not be easy: 50,000 acres transitioned over a chain 30% by 2030.* Projects
few years, the largest such program in the world. launched to date will reduce or
sequester an estimated 1.7 million
Our relationships with farmers are enabling us to do this. We metric tons of CO 2e through
ask them each to enroll a limited number of acres to ease their outreach to 1,600 producers and
switch to organic practices. And we pair them with experts at some of our largest customers.
the Rodale Institute to provide technical assistance. * measured per pound from 2017 baseline
8 Extraordinary people | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
We are stronger
health agencies. Still, we are not immune from the impacts of the virus, physi- in our communities
cally and emotionally. That’s why, through the global crisis, we have promoted Our focus has been on fighting
our mental health resources and focused on removing the stigma around hunger, supporting health and
than ever mental health. Our employees have shown incredible resilience, navigating
not only the pandemic but also severe weather and natural disasters. Last
June, we set up an Employee Disaster Relief Fund and so far have distributed
safety needs, and tackling industry
challenges. As countries battled
new outbreaks, we responded.
because of
For instance, we donated more
more than $12 million in 24 countries to help our colleagues in need. than $1.5 million to support
hospitals, front-line health workers
extraordinary
and vulnerable people in India.
.10
As vaccines became available
2005 Our reportable around the world, we partnered
4.58 injury frequency rate*: with organizations such as the
people.
2005-2021 U.N. Foundation’s ACT Accelerator
Fund and CARE to support
2021 serious injury and fatality educational campaigns and
rate, our lowest ever*
1.17 equitable distribution.
20+ million
(Total Reportable Injuries x
200,000)/Hours Worked
Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Rate =
(SIF Reportable Injuries x
200,000)/Hours Worked
SIF Reportable Injuries include any
reportable injury that was, or had the
100 schools
Advancing racial equity When Van Thanh primary school
opened this year, it was the 100th
in agriculture
school built by Cargill in rural
Vietnam over 25 years. Annually,
we provide 15,000 children in the
country with access to quality
There are 3.4 million farmers in America, and only 2% of them are Black. To accelerate progress on education.
racial equity, Cargill launched the Black Farmer Equity Initiative in partnership with two U.S. organi-
zations: the National Black Growers Council and 100 Ranchers. Together we will work with custom-
ers, nonprofits and others to help increase the participation and profitability of Black farmers.
Pictured: Christi Bland and her father, James Bland Jr., run their fourth-generation rice and soybean farm together in Mississippi.
Reaching
(Photo courtesy of Brent Warren and DTN/Progressive Farmer)
100 million
people
550+
Cargill and Heifer International
have expanded our Hatching
Hope partnership to Kenya, with
leaders
through sustainable poultry
production. Hatching Hope
aims to reach 100 million people
Now in its ninth year, Cargill’s globally by 2030.
Global Scholars program has
engaged more than 550 students
91%
from the U.S., Brazil, China,
India, Indonesia and Russia.
Along the way, more than 375
31.8%
nance and funding to help our teams bring dig-
ital businesses to life. Startups include Digital
Saathi (shown here), a platform to improve
Crop
of global leadership
farmer livelihoods by connecting crop farmers
farmers Crop markets roles at Cargill are
in India with resources and markets.
in India and ag suppliers filled by women,
up from 25.2% in 2015
10 About Cargill | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
155K 70 155
employees countries years of
experience
About
Cargill Delivering for customers
in more than We aim to be the most
Our purpose is to 125 trusted partner for food,
agriculture, financial and
nourish the world in a countries industrial customers.
safe, responsible
and sustainable way.
11 About Cargill | Cargill 2021 Annual Report
Our business
Every day, we connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and
people and animals with the food they need to thrive. Insights Insights
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