As part of a $5 billion investment plan extending to 2017 Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC) will life investment spending in 2013 to $900 million from $700 million in 2012. Excluding losses at Biosev, the Brazilian sugar and ethanol business, earnings hit a record $1.1billion despite a 0.9% easing in revenues to $57.1 billion attributed to falling crop prices. LDC lists a range of targets for spending this year from farming in Tanzania to dairy operations in low cost producing countries, to consolidating its supply chain of sustainable coffee, expanding into the Canadian wheat market, and expanding its Asian feed industry into Southeast Asia.