CHS Inc. (CHSCL)

Farm cooperative: grain, agronomy, energy, counted by segment. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025, filed November 5, 2025. Ranked 9 of the 62 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

CHS counts 10,683 employees at August 31, 2025, 2,047 in its Energy segment, 5,604 in Ag and 3,032 in Corporate and Other, so the refineries and fuel distribution take the energy count, the stated corporate count goes to management of companies (a), and the Ag count is split between the country elevators and the processing plants by description (c).

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 22% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 40% at the end of 2028, 42% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 15% people work and 43% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 56% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

10,683 employees as of August 31, 2025 (stated). The filing says employees are primarily in the United States without a share; revenue is 96% North America.

The filing: “On August 31, 2025, we had 10,683 full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees, primarily in the United States.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees counted together; 11 collective bargaining agreements cover approximately 8% of U.S. employees; people at the joint ventures (CF Nitrogen, Ventura Foods, Ardent Mills) are not counted; an agricultural cooperative whose listed security is preferred stock.

What the filing says about AI

14 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it continues to advance the development and integration of AI systems across its operations and names the pace of generative AI among its technical, legal and opportunistic risks, and AI and data centers among the loads straining electricity supplies.

• “Growing electrification and rapidly developing and increasing technology use (such as artificial intelligence, computer processing, cryptocurrency mining, cloud storage, data centers and power supplies required to support these activities) will also likely increase the intermittency and decrease the reliability of electricity supplies, particularly for grids highly dependent upon wind and solar...”
• “Artificial Intelligence ("AI"), including generative AI, advancements are progressing at an unprecedented pace, which brings risks that could subject us to loss through various technical, legal, and opportunistic-related risks.”
• “We continue to advance in the development and integration of AI systems across our operations.”
• “AI systems may fail to perform as expected under certain conditions or become vulnerable to adversarial attacks that manipulate the AI's output.”
• “As AI becomes more integrated into our operations, the risks of system failure or malfunction increase, potentially disrupting our business processes.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20244median 4
• Fiscal 202514median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The Ag segment's 5,604 are split between the elevators and the processing plants by description (c).
• The Corporate and Other count (3,032) includes the financing and hedging businesses, read with corporate.
• The U.S. share is not stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000823277-25-000038, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.