TEXT-EXTRACT 2 filename2.txt December 23, 2019 Brian A. Valentine Chief Financial Officer Andersons, Inc. 1947 Briarfield Boulevard Maumee, OH 43537 Re: Andersons, Inc. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2018 Filed February 27, 2019 File No. 000-20557 Dear Mr. Valentine: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2018 Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Marketing Agreement, page 47 1. Please tell us and disclose in further detail the nature of your role and responsibilities with regards to the lease and marketing agreement with Cargill, and the performance obligations to be satisfied in the income sharing arrangement disclosed on page 47. Please explain your accounting for this agreement and your consideration of whether this is collaborative arrangement. Brian A. Valentine Andersons, Inc. December 23, 2019 Page 2 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Note 13. Related Party Transactions Equity Method Investments, page 78 2. We note that you have a management agreement with each of the TAAE, TACE and the TAME LLCs (LLC's). As part of these agreements, the Ethanol Group runs the day-to- day operations of the plants, provide all administrative functions and risk management services, and lease grain facilities to two of the entities. The agreements with each of the LLC's provide you the exclusive right to act as supplier for 100% of the corn used by the LLC's in the production of ethanol. You also have marketing agreements with each of the ethanol LLC's in which you purchase most, if not all, of the ethanol produced by the LLC's at the same price they will resell the ethanol to external customers and receive a fee per gallon sold. Lastly, under corn oil marketing agreements with the LLC's, you market the distiller dried grains (DDG) and corn oil for a a fee on units sold. Please provide us your analysis of the consideration of the LLC's as variable interest entities (VIE's) and determination of the primary beneficiary for consolidation. Refer to the VIE guidance in ASC 810-10-25 in your response. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. You may contact Aamira Chaudhry at 202-551-3389 or Robert Shapiro at 202-551- 3273 with any questions. FirstName LastNameBrian A. Valentine Sincerely, Comapany NameAndersons, Inc. Division of Corporation Finance December 23, 2019 Page 2 Office of Trade & Services FirstName LastName