Garry Herzog

With a location in Paris, Ill., Cargill Dry Corn Ingredients provides food, agricultural and risk management products and services worldwide. With more than 160,000 employees in over 67countries, the company offers a range of meat, poultry, pharmaceutical and whole grain corn products for the food manufacturers. Founded in 1865, it provides emulsifiers, syrups, sweeteners and flavor maskers for the food, paper and mining industries. The company also provides industrial fermentation solutions, oils, lubricants, and steel and ferrous raw materials. It offers portfolio assessment, supply monitoring, and information and transaction support services. Cargill Dry Corn Ingredients additionally provides breads, chocolate chips and sugar. It also provides feed mill management, formulation and analysis, laboratory testing and operational auditing services.

Founded in 1980, GROWMARK is a locally owned agricultural cooperative system. It offers a range of agriculture products and services throughout Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and the northeastern United States, as well as Canada. The cooperative provides plant food products, chemicals, fertilizers and vegetable seeds. GROWMARK offers power fuels, grain systems, and renewable lubricants and greases. It operates a wholly owned subsidiary, GROWMARK FS, which provides wholesale and retail agronomy solutions in the eastern United States. Seedway maintains a subsidiary, Seedway, which is a turf seed marketing company. The cooperative operates AgriVisor, which offers grain and livestock marketing analysis solutions. In addition, GROWMARK provides home heating products and building and grain systems.