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BASF is one of the world’s leading chemical companies. It's headquartered in Germany near the Rhine River, which helps with logistics-related savings. Founded in 1865, it produces a vast array of chemicals, plastics, resins, and agricultural solutions. While the company serves multiple industries, it most prominently serves the automotive, agricultural, construction, and pharmaceutical industries. BASF is a first mover in the energy transition and aims to rapidly expand its recycled and bio-based product portfolio.

Muyuan Foods Group Co Ltd is engaged in pig farming and pig sales. Its business activities include livestock breeding, the production and trading of breeding livestock and poultry, the trading of live livestock and poultry for Hong Kong and Macao, feed production, livestock slaughtering, food production and sales, and animal treatment services.

Created in 2018 as a result of the merger between PotashCorp and Agrium, Nutrien is the world’s largest fertilizer producer by capacity. Nutrien produces the three main crop nutrients—nitrogen, potash, and phosphate—although its main focus is potash, where it is the global leader in installed capacity with a roughly 20% market share. The company is also the largest agricultural retailer in North America and Australia, selling fertilizers, crop chemicals, seeds, and services directly to farm customers through its brick-and-mortar stores and online platforms.

Archer-Daniels-Midland is a major processor of oilseeds, corn, wheat, and other agricultural commodities. The company is also one of the largest grain merchandisers through its extensive network of logistical assets to store and transport crops around the globe. ADM also runs a nutrition business that focuses on both human and animal ingredients and is a large producer of corn-based sweeteners, starches, and ethanol.

Novonesis was formed in 2024 through the merger of Novozymes and Chr. Hansen. Following the merger, the company became the world leader in industrial enzymes and microbial solutions, with a nearly 50% market share in both. The firm supplies a wide range of industry groups: household care, food and beverages, bioenergy, agriculture and feed, technical and pharmaceuticals. Its biological solutions create value for its customers by improving yield efficiency and performance, while saving energy and generating less waste. The company is headquartered in Denmark, employs more than 11,000 people, and works across more than 30 research and development and application centers and 23 manufacturing sites.

Bunge Global SA is an agribusiness solutions company, connecting farmers to consumers and delivering essential food, feed and fuel to the globe. The company segments include Soybean Processing and Refining; Softseed Processing and Refining; Other Oilseeds Processing and Refining; Grain Merchandising and Milling; and Corporate and Other. It generates maximum revenue from the Soybean Processing and Refining segment, which includes integrated business principally involved in the purchase, storage, transportation, processing, distribution, refining, marketing, and sale of soybeans and soybean related products, as well as biodiesel and fertilizer production and distribution. Geographically, the company operates in United States, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Rest of the World.

Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co Ltd operates in the dry inland Qarhan Salt Lake in Qinghai province. It is engaged in salt lake resource extraction and potash production. The company is engaged in the manufacture of chemical raw materials and chemical products. The company's main products include potassium chloride and lithium carbonate.

CF Industries is a leading producer and distributor of nitrogen, which is primarily used in fertilizers. The company operates nitrogen manufacturing plants primarily in North America. CF also produces nitrogen in the United Kingdom and holds a joint venture interest in a nitrogen production facility in Trinidad and Tobago. CF makes nitrogen primarily using low-cost US natural gas as its feedstock, making the company one of the lowest-cost nitrogen producers globally. It is also investing in carbon-free blue and green ammonia, which can be used as an alternative fuel to hydrogen or as a means to transport hydrogen.

Industries Qatar QSC, along with its subsidiaries, operates in the following reportable segments: Petrochemicals, Fertilisers, and Steel. Maximum revenue is generated from the Fertilisers segment, which produces and sells urea, ammonia, and other by-products. The Petrochemicals segment produces and sells ethylene, polyethylene, MTBE, methanol, and other petrochemical products; and the Steel segment produces and sells steel pellets, bars, billets, and others.

Wens Foodstuff Group Co Ltd operates as a livestock and poultry farming company in China. The company offers fresh meat products and processed products, including chicken, pig, duck, milk, egg, cooked chicken, deep-sea fish, sheep, pigeons, and other products. It also provides raw milk and finished milk, such as pasteurized milk, fermented milk, sterilized milk, milk-containing beverages, and other various categories of products.

SABIC Agri-Nutrient Co is engaged in the production, conversion, manufacturing, and trade of agri-nutrients and chemical products. Also, the Company is engaged in the marketing of agri-nutrient products of all types inside and outside KSA. The Group is organised into two segments; The Agri-Nutrients and The Petrochemicals. The majority of revenue is derived from the Agri-Nutrients segment.

Wilmar International Ltd is a processor of palm and lauric oils and a producer of consumer pack edible oils. Its operating segment includes Food Products; Feed and Industrial Products; Plantation and Sugar Milling, Associates and Joint Ventures and others. The company generates maximum revenue from the Feed and Industrial Products segment. Its Feed and Industrial Products segment comprises the processing, merchandising, and distribution of products, which includes animal feeds, non-edible palm and lauric products, agricultural commodities, oleochemicals, gas oil, and biodiesel. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from the People's Republic of China.

Mowi ASA is a Norway-based producer of farmed salmon, distributing salmon and other processed seafood globally. The company focuses on producing high-quality fish by producing its fish eggs and nurturing the fish in the early stages of their life. It operates in three business segments: Feed, Farming, and Sales & Marketing. Fish feed production comprises its two feed plants in Norway and Scotland. Farming includes a single operating segment composed of farming operations in Norway, Scotland, Canada, Chile, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland, and Sales and Marketing is composed of two operating segments: Markets and Consumer Products. A majority of the company's revenue is generated from the Sales and Marketing business. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from Europe.

Yara International is an Oslo-headquartered global crop-nutrition and industrial-chemicals company. It manufactures and markets nitrogen fertilizers, ammonia, crop-nutrition products and selected industrial solutions through a worldwide production and distribution network. Its customers include farmers, agricultural retailers, industrial companies and distributors in global fertilizer markets. Revenue comes principally from sales of fertilizer, ammonia and related chemical products. The company traces its roots to Norsk Hydro’s 1905 fertilizer business and was separately listed as Yara in 2004. Yara acquired Saskferco in 2008 from Mosaic, Investment Saskatchewan and Citibank and now operates the Belle Plaine facility.

Meicai is a Beijing-based business-to-business platform that supplies fresh produce, meat and other ingredients to small and medium-sized restaurants across China. Its app lets restaurant buyers order directly from farms and suppliers, and the company runs its own warehouses, delivery teams and trucks rather than relying on traditional wholesale middlemen. Meicai was founded in 2014 and is led by chief executive Liu Chuanjun. It reported sales of nearly RMB 8 billion in 2017 and RMB 22 billion in 2018, and its investors include ZhenFund, Blue Lake Capital, Shunwei Capital, GGV Capital, CMC Capital, Tiger Global and Hillhouse, with an October 2018 round of about $800 million valuing it at $7 billion. Total financing exceeded RMB 10 billion and no new round was announced after October 2018. In 2021 the company cut roughly half of its staff and moved from a direct-sales model towards a platform model, closing warehouses in 15 core cities.

Farmers Business Network is a San Carlos-headquartered agricultural technology platform that equips farmers in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina with data-driven tools for crop management. It offers e-commerce for farm inputs like seeds and fertilizers, agronomic insights from satellite imagery and soil sensors, crop marketing services, and insurance products. The farmer-to-farmer network fosters peer benchmarking on yields and costs. FBN Finance provides direct lending for equipment and inputs, while its marketplace connects producers to buyers for grains and oilseeds.

Indigo Ag is an agricultural technology company that sells microbial seed treatments and runs programs that pay farmers for practices that store carbon in soil. It began as a Flagship Pioneering venture to apply naturally occurring microbes to crops so they tolerate drought and disease with fewer chemical inputs. Over time it added a grain marketplace and transportation services that link growers to buyers, and a carbon program that generates credits sold to companies. Customers are farmers, grain buyers and food and beverage companies, and revenue comes from product sales, marketplace and logistics fees, and credit sales. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It acquired the satellite analytics firm TellusLabs in 2018 and the soil data company Soil Metrics in 2021.

Advanta Seeds is a global agricultural solutions company and a subsidiary of UPL Group, focusing on developing and distributing high-yielding, climate-resilient hybrid seeds. With a portfolio of over 900 hybrids spanning 80+ countries, it provides staple crops and vegetables designed to support smallholder farmers and global food security.