Greg Page on Food, Agriculture, and Cargill

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🗓️ 12 January 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Greg Page, former CEO of Cargill, the largest privately-held company in America, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the global food supply and the challenges of running a company with employees and activity all over the world. Page talks about the role of prices in global food markets in signaling information and prompting changes in response to those signals. Other topics include government's role in agriculture, the locavore movement and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:43.0	tell me a little bit about yourself and vote for your five favorite episodes of 2014.
0:49.1	Now for today's guest, he is Greg Page, the executive chairman and former CEO of CarGill,
0:55.0	the world's largest privately held company with revenues into 2013 of about $136 billion.
1:01.6	They have about 142,000 employees, and they're involved in all many, many aspects of the
1:08.1	food business.
1:09.1	Greg, welcome to econtalk.
1:10.1	Good to be with you, Russ.
1:12.9	Let's start with what CarGill does.
1:14.7	I said you're involved in the food industry, and now that doesn't begin to cover it.
1:18.3	Talk, and I know you can't do that.
1:20.5	If we had the whole hour on this, I'm sure you could cover it.
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