Cargill faced pressure from shareholders and charitable trusts that owned stock in the company. In 2011, the company decided to spin off its 64% ownership of The Mosaic Company—one of the ...

Cargill is the largest private U.S. company, owned by descendants of the founder and employees. While public investors cannot buy Cargill stock, they can invest in publicly traded agricultural ...

Cargill plans to exchange about 179 million of the Mosaic shares with Cargill shareholders, including some charitable trusts, for at least part of their Cargill stock.

Mosaic, which spun off from Cargill in 2004, said that it reached a deal to acquire 43.3 million restricted shares from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and the Anne Ray Charitable Trust.