ADM forms animal feed joint venture with Alltech
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company plans to form a North American animal feed joint venture with Alltech as part of its shift toward higher-margin specialty animal nutrition ingredients.
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Archer-Daniels-Midland Company plans to form a North American animal feed joint venture with Alltech as part of its shift toward higher-margin specialty animal nutrition ingredients. The venture will be majority-owned by Alltech, with a board that has equal representation from both companies.
Alltech will contribute its U.S.-based Hubbard Feeds and Canada-based Masterfeeds businesses, including 18 U.S. feed mills and 15 Canadian mills, while ADM will contribute 11 U.S. complete feed mills. ADM expects to deconsolidate its complete feed business but retain its proportionate share of specialty ingredient supply. The transaction is expected to close and the joint venture to launch in the first quarter of 2026 and is not expected to have a material impact on ADM’s 2025 financial results.
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ADM is reshaping its animal nutrition portfolio via a feed joint venture with Alltech.
Archer-Daniels-Midland is forming a North American animal feed joint venture with Alltech, aligning with its strategy to emphasize higher-growth, higher-margin specialty animal nutrition ingredients. ADM will contribute 11 U.S. complete feed mills, while Alltech contributes Hubbard Feeds and Masterfeeds, totaling 33 mills.
The structure—Alltech majority ownership with equal board representation—allows ADM to deconsolidate its complete feed business yet maintain a proportional supply role for specialty ingredients. This supports ADM’s stated focus on optimizing and simplifying its Nutrition segment while continuing to invest in R&D and innovation for customers.
The companies expect to close the transaction and launch the joint venture in the first quarter of 2026. ADM states the transaction is not expected to have a material impact on its 2025 financial results, suggesting the main effects are strategic and longer term rather than near-term earnings driven.
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On September 23, 2025, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (“ADM”) issued a press release announcing the signing of a definitive agreement to form a North American Animal Feed Joint Venture with Alltech as part of its strategy to transition its animal nutrition business into higher margin specialty ingredients.
The joint venture is part of the strategy of ADM’s Animal Nutrition division, which is part of the ADM Nutrition segment, to diversify into higher growth and higher margin specialty animal nutrition ingredients.
ADM expects that with the formation of the joint venture with Alltech, it will be able to deconsolidate its complete feed business, while retaining its proportionate share of the supply of specialty ingredients to the new business.
The joint venture will be majority-owned by Alltech and governed by a board with equal representation from each of ADM and Alltech. Alltech will contribute to the joint venture its U.S.-based Hubbard Feeds and Canada-based Masterfeeds businesses, consisting of 18 feed mills in the U.S. and 15 in Canada. ADM will contribute to the joint venture its 11 U.S. complete feed mills.
The companies expect to complete the transaction and formally launch the joint venture in the first quarter of 2026. This transaction is not expected to have a material impact on ADM’s 2025 financial results.
This transaction is part of ADM’s broader focus on optimizing and simplifying its portfolio, and helps streamline the Nutrition segment’s operations to allow the team to focus on higher-value growth. The Nutrition segment plans to continue to invest in its R&D activities, bringing innovative solutions to support its customers.
This information in this Item 7.01, and in Exhibit 99.1, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.
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(d) Exhibits. The following exhibits are furnished or filed, as applicable, herewith:
| 99.1 | Press Release dated September 23, 2025 | |||
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL) | |||
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY | ||||||
| Date: September 23, 2025 | By | /s/ M. Patolawala | ||||
| M. Patolawala | ||||||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||||