About us

A leading global agribusiness and the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the United States

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Creating connections to empower agriculture

As a leading global agribusiness and the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the United States, we serve customers in 65 countries. Our diversified agronomy, grains, foods and energy businesses provide critical crop and livestock inputs, market access and risk management services that help farmers feed the world. By finding and developing new solutions in agriculture and energy, we are helping to build a better future for our owners, customers, employees and communities.

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What we do

As a farmer-owned cooperative, CHS connects growers to consumers around the world. We purchase grain from a network of cooperatives and farmer-owners and match it with the needs of domestic and global food and feed customers in 65 countries. CHS also manufactures and distributes a variety of Cenex^® brand energy products and offers crop inputs through wholesale and retail operations in more than 450 communities in the United States to help farmers grow healthy, profitable crops.

CHS at a glance

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Governance

CHS is a cooperative, which means it’s governed by the farmers and local cooperatives that own it. Our owners have elected 17 full-time farmers or ranchers to serve on the CHS Board of Directors.

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Sports partnerships

CHS covers every base in agriculture to help farmers win. We are proud to lend our name to CHS Field and sponsor the St. Paul Saints, Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Wild and collegiate sports.

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