Directors Elected at ADM Annual Meeting, Cash Dividend Declared

DECATUR, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) announced today at its 90^th Annual Stockholders’ Meeting that 12 incumbent directors were re-elected to its Board. The directors re-elected are: Alan L. Boeckmann, George W. Buckley, Mollie Hale Carter, Terrell K. Crews, Pierre Dufour, Donald E. Felsinger, Antonio Maciel Neto, Patrick J. Moore, Thomas F. O’Neill, Daniel T. Shih, Kelvin R. Westbrook and Patricia A. Woertz.

Cash Dividend Declared

ADM’s Board of Directors also declared a cash dividend of 19.0 cents per share on the company’s common stock payable June 6, 2013, to stockholders of record May 16, 2013.

This is ADM’s 326th consecutive quarterly payment, a record of 81 years of uninterrupted dividends. As of March 31, 2013, there were 658,907,288 shares of ADM common stock outstanding.

About ADM

For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve vital needs. Today, 30,000 ADM employees around the globe convert oilseeds, corn, wheat and cocoa into products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses. With more than 265 processing plants, 460 crop procurement facilities, and the world’s premier crop transportation network, ADM helps connect the harvest to the home in more than 140 countries. For more information about ADM and its products, visit www.adm.com.

Archer Daniels Midland Company
Media Relations
Jackie Anderson, 217-424-5413
media@adm.com