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2419410 - Disclosure - Employee Benefit Plans (Expected Future Benefit Payments To Be Paid) (Details)
(http://www.adm.com/role/EmployeeBenefitPlansExpectedFutureBenefitPaymentsToBePaidDetails)
TableSchedule of Defined Benefit Plans Disclosures [Table]
Slicers (applies to each fact value in each table cell)
Reporting Entity [Axis]0000007084 (http://www.sec.gov/CIK)
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]Period [Axis]
2016-12-31
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans Disclosures [Axis]
Pension Benefits [Member]Other Postretirement Benefit Plan [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan, Expected Future Benefit Payments, Next Twelve Months
94,000,000  
13,000,000  
Defined Benefit Plan, Expected Future Benefit Payments, Year Two
100,000,000  
12,000,000  
Defined Benefit Plan, Expected Future Benefit Payments, Year Three
107,000,000  
12,000,000  
Defined Benefit Plan, Expected Future Benefit Payments, Year Four
113,000,000  
12,000,000  
Defined Benefit Plan, Expected Future Benefit Payments, Year Five
121,000,000  
12,000,000  
Defined Benefit Plan, Expected Future Benefit Payments, Five Fiscal Years Thereafter
709,000,000  
57,000,000