ADM Directors Declare Cash Dividend

The Board of Directors of Archer Daniels Midland Company today declared a cash dividend of ten cents a share on the Company’s stock payable March 10, 2006 to Shareholders of record February 17, 2006. This is an increase of one and one-half cents a share.

This is ADM’s 317th cash dividend and 297th consecutive quarterly payment, a record of 74 years of uninterrupted dividends. As of December 31, 2005 there were 653,389,155 shares of ADM stock outstanding.

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