EXHIBIT 23.A

              INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT AND REPORT ON SCHEDULES

The Board of Directors
Farmland Industries, Inc.:

    The audits referred to in our report dated October 21, 1994 included the
related financial statement schedules as of August 31, 1994, and for each of 
the years in the three-year period ended August 31, 1994, included in the
Registration Statement in the accompanying index.  These financial statement
schedules are the responsibility of the Company's management.  Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statement schedules
based on our audits.  In our opinion, such financial statement schedules, when
considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as 
a whole, present fairly in all material respects the information set forth
therein.

    Our report dated October 21, 1994 contains an explanatory paragraph
concerning income tax adjustments proposed by the Internal Revenue Service on
the gain on sale of and certain distributions by Terra Resources, 
Inc.        

    We consent to the use of our reports included herein and to the references
to our firm under the headings "Selected Consolidated Financial Data", and
"Experts" in the Prospectus.

                                        KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP

   
Kansas City, Missouri
February 10, 1995