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Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the ADM First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded.

I would now like to introduce your host for today's call, Megan Britt, Vice President, Investor Relations for ADM. Ms. Britt, you may begin.

Megan Britt

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Juan Luciano

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Ismael Roig

Thank you, Juan.

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Back Juan. to you,

Juan Luciano

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questions. please time your your We Operator, for for line look taking the Thanks forward today. to questions. open

Operator

from comes [Operator Instructions] today for of Strelzik BMO. question Andrew first Our

Andrew Strelzik

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Juan Luciano

Andrew. Thank you, Yes.

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the the year. way we that's So see

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Operator

Bienvenu of Ben comes Inc. question next Our from Stephens

Ben Bienvenu

call some of and ask, So Can Sweeteners. recovery want the remainder that talk call makes point volumes. from you're seeing the a we about strong That's you robust pretty out in of to outlook year year. to the particular, dynamics Solutions the recovery and Carbohydrate for a you a in segment, volume I In for pace Starches saw the of volume bit what that [indiscernible] out you're you last that this you seeing around year? of

Juan Luciano

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Operator

Our Palmer next comes of Tom from question Citi.

Thomas Palmer

refined to products. I in maybe wanted dive little a on more

XQ. other U.S. have And We spreads? then seeing unwind noted did of basis a think year margin used in some remarks, then imported ago. when Is on what the this about of regional lower refined more you You a gains guess from biodiesel I oil. those saw you timing for we year in pressured some places? more pressure an expectation cooking than a bit prepared and in are

expected we the on those move through help of progression any XXXX. as Just

Juan Luciano

Yes.

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the quarter, in similar margins think dynamic which be see North little for I will crush in America and you in margins will better and second overall, a bit refining South America. lower So refining margins

Thomas Palmer

And timing unwind? the just any help on

Juan Luciano

timing Yes. Year-over-year, net of in was negative QX. there $XX impacts million

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the that's if you of So arithmetic, that. will,

Operator

Manav question UBS. next from Gupta Our comes of

Manav Gupta

Like My the restart only in is, path of restart are where question us can that? you the to Decatur construction, we the plant? if you could full with the East regulatory help or provide out

Juan Luciano

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Operator

from of comes Jones question Jones next Heather Research. Our Heather

Heather Jones

margin the discuss I could want help more, on a you side. me. crush specifically hoping to Just soy outlook the little just

in you earlier, wanted you just more. for little thank to So provided dig but bit a I cadence information the

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Juan Luciano

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pressure saw we crush have that the beans getting we in and that margins. So easing helping

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Operator

America. Tiano from of next question Our Salvator comes from Bank

Salvator Tiano

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Juan Luciano

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Operator

comes Ben of Barclays. question from next Our Theurer

Benjamin Theurer

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Juan Luciano

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Ismael Roig

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Operator

Steven Our of comes next from Haynes Stanley. question Morgan

Steven Haynes

follow-ups quick on Maybe just Nutrition. two

price about think down revenue That were the be I I your based the So volumes, prior on kind comments quarter? in organic volumes, slightly. some one. there your would of positive first guess, And your component, being was

you M&A is on recent of the then second full And that How the you of full the your in the much M&A? year, ahead are baking question of mentioned is into year contribution kind kind model profit from guide coming deal operating expectations.

Juan Luciano

Yes. Steven. Thank you,

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growth full revenue We year. high expect the -- be in for of range digit to mid-single

probably profit that cost expect should -- than down OP given year-over-year. operating bit We a be be little do our to that to better

question other the there? was what So

Ismael Roig

Yes.

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Operator

Adam of next Our comes Goldman question Sachs. from Samuelson

Adam Samuelson

parts different on a be poultry about supply questions. talked first, us where that in project sizable soy for we more two you the and got think later in as seem I improvement about you curves. world Maybe guess meal production. help really you I uptick doesn't maybe don't demand So the the Just ratios implied Most in year a the by specific? in outlook bit of year, the inclusion to forecasts can as

customers? just you your actually seeing us little getting where that feed a areas could bit from help the So on signal that or you're

question, unrelated this targeted and from, in And or the some the spend, for category then the in productivity also segments bit whether cost you $XXX unallocated that coming couple about about they're as I Would of if in where and million the the more love outlook really savings terms a an we are actions as could both specificity corporate maybe next operating of of years. think but the of the year areas to for you've next. think

Juan Luciano

so what all, of Adam, and realize, course, in early listen, to of need are the year, we think I QX. first Yes, predictions we you making sure. are on

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to that go we're little transition. that is here seeing is a uncovered, through you farmer if a will, we're going customer So base slow. selling very And that

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parts different the the whether that of world, Turkey, see other we of world. in in in Thailand, So it's in parts

that But I think issue effect. its the main is pricing doing is

but some to being still some in cooking is of of oil U.S. competition We We're oil trade more Brazil very used exporter into out flows we U.S., mills, competitive of So see oil, maybe soybean starting U.S. the exported maybe you the see changing. mill. the as see an coming -- more see becoming soybean in less

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Ismael Roig

we're the the on drive But quite by actually Adam, the on excellence, Yes. encouraged for progress. --

important As Juan more challenges initiatives, supply be optimization, during and can X,XXX areas plant focus, and had also working of into business very but that effort than is in process grouped on on process or remarks, fulfillment, chain on working we've substantial we of they demand the the mentioned part themes which optimization, have Nutrition.

buckets these that working on. So the be would large we're

XXXX. about well. X/X at of least very the seen line we've of And progress for million $XXX we already have the sight And platform

this for we're in encouraged impacting XXXX excellence the that So ability I've outlined. drive just about the very measures of already

Operator

Kallo from Our Ben Baird. next comes of question

Ben Kallo

tax being you for next credit changing or dynamic demand a intensity carbon in year? think about the think factor U.S. oil about the soy tax of overall a blenders we producers over do credit the how and the Just to

Juan Luciano

the question. Yes. Ben, for Thank you,

you as of last of the tax that be addition at CORSIA. to And modeling year guidance end I the grid a 'XX tax the So administered to will know, will credit. Treasury. end on, at and transition by the $X CA issued will blenders expire think, this They use production U.S. credit in of allow the

successful including Of course, We're officially we being on in the We're that. favor in grid ruling EPA delayed still included. grid.

been doing equation of this to lot that we make have sure encouraging of out we government remove advocacy a uncertainty that here. officials think the in I So

the crop-based create biofuels to difficult the that I without very trying in generate price mechanism begin credits a think look volume. coming -- locking will discovery a transition will months, of XXXX guidance whether as participants to are

are for So needs that providing important to to the expected. investments think in regulatory are on I come and those time think important industries very as that's I clarification to investing U.S., an are These that happen. and certainty fruition that

Ben Kallo

Just a you follow-up fats with them waste diesel materials? in to other terms are transitioning of there. renewable using the seeing What refiners, or producers

Juan Luciano

Yes.

think oil I in being with demand. a palm cope the there able is and flat reality is -- that to production that not listen, world

green And oil. they know oil inventory to So be lot industry find. kind meet gather was we that component. to trying have of a soybean there feedstock of which met -- of U.S. of can that course, used feedstocks, important the every to an is was going diesel to and renewable with is the cook But of

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Operator

from comes of Tiano question next of Bank America. Our Salvator

Salvator Tiano

just I follow-up. a had

So us the also, of roughly from Green showed, million had as the we volume that? contribution now? couple interest loss. you are example, little that how you can JV, noncontrolling came the Well, Bison believe $XX among I others, the a help bit guess, And So into for the you understand look process loss. growth I a items, much

So which how JV a the that income do a was to point line? turn profitable for return -- at Bison net that Green NCI I to much, guess, And of you into it JV? so basis, expect on

Juan Luciano

were my the or It crush in maybe with was X% increase. the across that was our Salvator, plants also were Spiritwood the to coming I coming give in in top have you during But of Part that what part I we pleased improvements first of and of mind. general Ukraine increase at of quarter. was oilseeds online, Paraguay footprint. in Part crush. Yes. that volumes very

in at the happened different all points quarter. that So

part I of don't what of have what a the to So full quarter. recollection happened any at volume

joint contributor during be XXXX. Bison Green will The venture profit a to

It's to up. very get full going ramping to it's capacity So soon.

of the quarter, my will to it first what meaningful be have don't I honest. top was on So a contributor. be contribution head

Operator

question Research. Our Heather comes from next Heather Jones Jones of

Heather Jones

that this or exactly ask the sustainability you're the dry what what's doing proactively Just quickly driving as to more wanted related ahead getting wondering doubling Just to mills like stringent far acreage, that. of requirements? really as regime your of sourcing? And EU for deforestation region is carb

Juan Luciano

Yes.

providing X to decarbonize of some also a Actually, awaiting low our but intensity a products driven ADM, we ourselves, side we characteristics of by that by of also for goals the Scope and either customers, partly emissions from our out we need a XX decarbonization commanding have Strive solutions, some the there. carb customers premium whole need decarbonization part has carbon that in Heather, across by have our strategy, strategy. our So driven

go we wells, So we're say on our doing? well capacity. to increasing We wells, to what to are be capture increase let's sequestration. are wells X working but We're X significantly experimental X X from X to carbon going and able going our so well,

And have been years last XX let me of we've that X.X COX the operating. remind captured million already tons you, we in

successful. has So that been

that sequestration carbon we're to mills is and doing we capture are to dry For our building specifically, pipelines units indicator. the bring what

pipeline X we for are looking the and other that for ongoing, been solutions We the has dry project, have mills.

So is that's what happening.

remembering the The what... Heather, second part not I'm question, exactly of

Heather Jones

on wondering just region. the was I

Juan Luciano

Oh, yes.

Heather Jones

in wondering that what's Or standards? is the Just all like Yes, doubling that. anticipation more carb on stringent regime growth? wondering, driving voluntary acreage, deforestation the of region market-driven is EU just or it

Juan Luciano

continue their also to of excitement we is There people side customer for farmer answer I would Yes. these side contracts excitement have as sign on the practices, there more sides. Scope of both in an lot terms adhere all to say to, of a demand these from to on pull but the again, need to X. is there's

have So and this those goals setting we and been those been been have -- increasing goals, beating has goals. we

team and and Europe to Latin the to we world. job. continue activities demand to an been honest, that expanded doing be see And have the we America, for excellent has these Now around

program So is perceived that in program this the there. I think the as world leading

Operator

we further this At have currently time, no questions.

any for I'll remarks. back So further Luciano to hand Juan

Juan Luciano

and Okay. have Thank in for joining for day. great and you, a you. Thank your ADM, interest everybody, today us

Ismael Roig

Thank you.

Operator

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Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) 30 Apr 242024 Q1 Earnings call transcript