The 2025 CropLife 100 Report: The Definitive Fun With Numbers

The top 10 companies in fertilizer sales generated $14 billion last year, which comprised 70% of total CropLife 100 fertilizer revenue.

The top 10 ag retailers had a combined total of 3,776 locations, which is 71% of all CropLife 100 facilities.

The seed category held onto the gains the category made during 2023. Will this remain the case in the new growing season as well?

Although crop protection product sales struggled overall during 2024, the category did grow its market share among crop inputs – and a pair of segments performed better than expected.

Fertilizer revenues took a hit during the 2024 growing season, but this alone doesn’t tell the whole story for the category.

With overall sales down, can ag technology recover in 2025 for the nation’s leading retailers?

Although the Big Three self-propelled sprayer manufacturers still dominate the marketplace, smaller players did make some gains this past year.

The CropLife 100 Report takes the pulse of the one of the agricultural industry’s most important segments — the ag retailer.

CropLife magazine has published its 41st annual CropLife 100, a listing of the largest U.S. ag retailers ranked by sales.

The overall numbers for the nation’s top ag retailers were less than stellar in 2024. But there were some positive signs, particularly going into 2025.

Editor Eric Sfiligoj offers a sneak preview of this year’s upcoming CropLife 100 report, including a look at AI’s impact in ag and grower consolidation.

From Nutrien to GreenPoint Ag, the top seven retailers all boast hundreds of outlets and annual sales in excess of $1 billion each. This is their story over the past 40 years.

Despite the constant shake-up from consolidation, Wisconsin-based companies are well represented in the latest CropLife 100 list.

These 10 ag retailers are capitalizing the most on the increased adoption of precision farming among U.S. growers.

The pace of grower consolidation picked up in 2023, according to the nation’s top ag retailers.

CropLife 100 retailers tell us what they believed were the most significant developments to take place in ag since 1984.

On the surface of things, the fertilizer category did not have a good year in 2023. But looking deeper at all the facts tells a slightly different story.

The seed category managed to grow revenues for the first time in many years. But can this trend continue into the new growing season?