Source: Sonja Begemann, AGWEB, 7/21/18


The past three years have been nothing if not a flurry of consolidation in the seed industry. Monsanto and Bayer are likely days away from integrating, Dow and DuPont are now known as Corteva Agriscience and Syngenta is owned by ChemChina. “This recent series of mergers and acquisition events have been the broadest, most impactful ever in the ag crop input industry,” says Garrett Stoerger, partner at Verdant Partners. “While Bayer and BASF continue to adopt the conglomerate approach to participating in ag, DowDuPont has elected to create a pure-play ag entity, while ChemChina is on its way to being the world’s largest industrial chemical company.”

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