ABSTRACT
With the demise of Agricom International in 1984 and the sale of PVO’s Richmond plant and safflower oil business to a Hong Kong based holding company, the transition to the players into today’s safflower market was underway. The safflower oil business then began to be divided between J.G. Boswell, Adams Grain, California Oils Corporation, and whatever group Oilseeds International, Ltd. (OIL), was representing, with Cargill and Cal/West Seeds each holding a share of the business of selling safflower seed. The Great Plains became a battleground between the owner of the Culbertson, Montana, plant, whomever OIL represented, and various birdseed buyers.
