Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. v. Beadles Enterprises, Inc.

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

Appellee Beadles, Incorporated (Beadles) is a hog-finishing operation owned by Wayne Beadles, Sr., and Wayne Beadles, Jr. This operation takes young hogs, feeds them until they attain a certain weight, and then sells them to slaughterhouses. Beadles makes its own hog feed, part of which contains soybean meal that it purchased from appellant Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM). Beadles sued ADM claiming that ADM’s failure to inform Beadles that ADM had sold it soybean meal that might have contained ball clay that was contaminated with dioxin 2 caused a purchaser to…