The company is organized into two operating segments: Grain & Ingredients – Gavilon originates, stores, and distributes grains and oilseeds, as well as feed and food ingredients, to food manufacturers, livestock producers, poultry processors, soybean processors and ethanol producers worldwide.
[1] Gavilon uses the futures market to manage price risk associated with inventory positions and forward contracts.
[7] Today, Gavilon employs 2,000 people around the world and is the second largest grain handler in North America based on storage capacity.
[8] June 18, 2020, Gavilon Grain spilled two containers with a million gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer into the Bee Branch in Dubuque, Iowa.
[11][9] The largest fine of $244,705 was issued to restore giant floater and plain pocketbook mussels.
Thirdly, Gavilon asked the DNR for permission to flush the sewer to remove any ammonia left in there.