Silent Giant: America’s biggest private company reveals its plan to get even bigger
Story Date: 10/24/2018

 

Source: Chloe Sorvino, FORBES, 10/22/18


Thirty miles outside Minneapolis, the only structures interrupting miles of waist-high corn are a few long buildings covered in white siding. Those structures belong to Cargill—the $115 billion-in-sales agricultural giant that has topped Forbes’ list of America's largest private companies for 28 of the past 30 years—and they house one of Cargill’s most important projects.   Stretched out along the interior of each building are rows of tanks filled with brackish gray water—and either tilapia or shrimp. Cargill is studying the best way to feed and raise seafood, and the various pools test different conditions...

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