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Mar. 31, 2020
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Subsequent Events [Text Block] | Subsequent Event On April 23, 2020, the Company announced that due to the challenging operating environment, it is currently managing ethanol production throughout its U.S. corn processing network to focus on cash flows and to divert corn grind to other products that are in higher demand, such as alcohol for hand sanitizer. As part of this process, ADM is temporarily idling ethanol production at its corn dry mill facilities in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Columbus, Nebraska, for a period of four months subject to market conditions. To better align production with current demand, the Company has also reduced the ethanol grind at its corn wet mill plants and rebalanced grind to produce more industrial alcohol for the sanitizer market and industrial starches for the container board market.

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