ConAgra Foods, Cargill and CHS to form joint venture, Ardent Mills
ConAgra Foods, Omaha, Neb.; Cargill, Minneapolis; and CHS Inc., St. Paul, Minn., announced a definitive agreement to combine their North American flour milling businesses to form Ardent Mills, a flour milling company that will serve customers in the baking and food industries.
Ardent Mills will bring together two of the nation’s leading flour milling companies: ConAgra Mills and Horizon Milling, a Cargill-CHS joint venture formed in 2002. The new company will take advantage of the combined assets, capabilities and experience of ConAgra Foods, Cargill and CHS to bring innovative flour and grain products, services and solutions to the marketplace.