Sustainable Soy Transparency

Reporting and communicating our progress against our sustainability goals

Our commitment to reporting

Cargill is committed to transparency – in our own operations and across our global supply chains, reporting progress in its annual Impact Report where our South America soy supply chain has a dedicated chapter.

South American Soy Sustainability Report 2025

Check out the progress of the soy chain in South America. Access our report in English, Spanish and Portuguese. 

South American Sustainability Soy Dashboard 2025

Our South American agriculture and trading business sources soy in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Uruguay. The business stores, processes, and ships soybeans and other soy products to customers in the region and around the world.

All figures below are for the calendar year 2024 and are for soy purchased and handled by our local sourcing businesses in each country, unless stated otherwise. This data was audited internally in May 2025.

How and why we block farms

In Brazil, our detailed mapping of commercial relationships in our supply chain combines with our processes, data, and technology to provide a strong system of controls for the integrity of our direct soy supply chain. Every day, our automated system consults lists managed by various government agencies and other organizations.

In 2024, we updated our automated system to better be able to block not just a farming operation when its name appears on a list but also the relevant polygon, in case the farm operator and farm owner have different names. When a farming operation appears on one of these lists, it is immediately blocked so it is not eligible to sell soy to us until we have investigated and determined that there is no risk we are receiving soy from the relevant restricted area. The exception is the Slave Labor List – when a supplier appears on this list, all its operations in Brazil are blocked until they no longer appear on the list. In the case of any farming operation that is blocked for appearing on a list, we also block other farms registered to the same person or entity in the state, as well as those with whom they have a close commercial relationship. These affiliated farms cannot be unblocked until we conduct a thorough analysis to help ensure that soy from the violating farm is not being rerouted and sold to us through the affiliated operation.

Each new crop season, we re-evaluate these commercial relationships and check to ensure that affiliated farms still are not rerouting soy from blocked commercial partners.

In 2024, two new geospatial layers of data for conservation units and indigenous lands were added to our automated system in Brazil that cross-references all our supplier polygons on a daily basis. Coupled with an update to the IBAMA list, this materially increased the number of blocked farms in our system compared to the year before. In other countries in South America that do not have public lists like this, we take action to block farms on a case-by-case basis as we discover issues or they are brought to our attention through our grievance process.

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