Farmers in the grain-growing north know Cargill, Inc. as one of the world's biggest, most audacious* grain companies with a hankering as big as its elevators for taking on unconventional jobs, rushing them through by unconventional tricks.
But when Cargill began buying farm and meadowland along the tree-shaded Minnesota River near Savage, Minn, little over a year ago, even Cargill-wise farmers hooted at the fantastic reason: Cargill was going to set up a shipyard to build ocean-going vessels. They had some excuse for hooting. Savage is 14 water miles from the Mississippi. For...
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