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Corteva is an agricultural inputs pure play that was formed in 2019 when it was spun off from DowDuPont. The company is a leader in the development of new seed and crop protection products. Seeds generate the majority of profits with the remainder coming from crop protection products. Corteva plans to spin off its seeds business in late 2026 and will become a pure-play crop protection company following the divestiture. Corteva operates globally, but around half of revenue comes from North America.

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.

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.

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.

Muyuan Foods Co Ltd is a hog producer in China and operates an integrated model, stretching from feed processing, swine medicine development, and sow breeding, to hog raising and slaughtering. The Company is engaged in the farming, sales, and slaughter of pigs. Its main products include finished pigs, piglets, and breeding pigs, as well as pork products such as pork carcasses and pork cuts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yara International ASA is a Crop nutrition company, and developing low-emission energy solutions. The company converts natural gas into nitrogen products. It is engaged in the production of ammonia, mineral fertilizers, and industrial products. The firm also develops and markets environmental solutions and essential products for industrial applications. It markets and distributes a complete range of crop nutrition products and programs globally. Its operating segments are Europe, Americas, Africa & Asia, Global Plants & Operational Excellence, Clean Ammonia, and Industrial Solutions.

Meicai is a Beijing-headquartered B2B platform for fresh produce supply chain connecting farms to restaurants and hotels across China. Founded in 2014, the company operates cold-chain logistics from Hubei origins to Beijing kitchens, delivering vegetables, meats, and seafood daily. Meicai serves 300,000 merchants in 100 cities with mobile ordering and quality traceability via blockchain.

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 is a Boston-headquartered agricultural technology company enhancing crop sustainability and yields through microbial seed treatments. The firm develops products like carbon farming programs and grain contracts for farmers in the US Corn Belt and beyond. Indigo markets microbiome-based inoculants to reduce fertilizer use and improve soil health on millions of acres.

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.