Largest agriculture companies in the world: the top 19 agribusinesses by revenue

This list is for people who sell to agribusiness: equipment and parts suppliers, grain handling and storage firms, logistics and rail providers, ag technology and data vendors, crop input distributors, lenders, insurers and recruiters. It ranks the 19 largest agriculture companies by revenue from their own reports, groups them by where they sit in the chain from farm inputs to processed crops, counts US farms and ag businesses from federal data, and works through a prospecting example.

The 19 largest agriculture companies by revenue

Revenue as reported for each company's latest fiscal year, from its Form 10-K or 40-F, annual report or results release, checked on 30 October 2026.

Euro and yen figures are converted at the Federal Reserve's 2025 average rates ($1.1306 per euro; ¥149.5686 per dollar; G.5A, released 5 January 2026). Wilmar, Louis Dreyfus, Syngenta, Nutrien and Yara report in US dollars. Cargill is private; its revenue and headcount are from its 2026 annual report letter and company profile. Bunge's principal executive office is in Geneva; its 10-K gives Chesterfield, Missouri as corporate headquarters.

Three things to keep in mind:

• Some totals include non-farm business. Deere's revenue includes construction and forestry equipment and financial services; CHS's includes petroleum refining and retail; Kubota's includes construction machinery and water systems.
• Trading revenue is large and thin. The traders' revenue is the value of crops bought and resold, so it moves with commodity prices and is much larger than the work involved.
• Bayer Crop Science is a division. Bayer AG's group sales were €45.6 billion in 2025, including pharmaceuticals and consumer health; only the Crop Science figure is shown.

The four parts of the industry

Corteva's seed business alone sold $9.9 billion in 2025, which shows how much of the input market is seed rather than chemistry.

How this list is built

• What's counted. Revenue as reported for the latest fiscal year, for companies whose main business supplies farms or buys, trades and processes farm output. Divisions are used only where a parent's other businesses dominate (Bayer).
• Who's left out. Meat and poultry processors and packaged food companies (see the largest food companies); farm retailers such as Tractor Supply; animal health companies; COFCO and other companies we couldn't verify from their own published reports; and private companies that don't publish results. Farms themselves aren't companies in this sense: the largest US farm operations don't publish revenue.
• Other lists. Fortune's Global 500 and Forbes' Global 2000 include several of these companies, and trade publications rank seed and crop protection firms by sales. We didn't copy their rankings.

How many farms and ag businesses there are in the US

The USDA's 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 1,900,487 farms, down 6.9% from 2,042,220 in 2017, operating 880.1 million acres with an average farm size of 463 acres. Farms aren't in the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, which leaves out crop and animal production, but the businesses around them are. For 2023:

Grain wholesalers, which include country elevators, cluster in the Corn Belt and Plains: Illinois (590), Iowa (520), Kansas (413), Nebraska (303), Minnesota (266) and North Dakota (256). Farm supply wholesalers are more spread out, led by California (774), Illinois (679) and Iowa (645). For farm-level lists, see the list of farms.

Where the buying happens

General guidance, with facts from the companies' filings:

• At traders and processors, the plant decides a lot. Elevators, crush plants and port terminals have their own managers and maintenance budgets; capital projects and national contracts go through regional operations and procurement.
• Cooperatives answer to members. CHS says it's owned by farmers, ranchers and member cooperatives. Local co-op managers and boards decide much of their own buying, so a cooperative system is many accounts, not one.
• Equipment reaches farmers through dealers. Deere's 10-K says its small agriculture and turf equipment is sold primarily through independent retail dealer networks. Dealers buy service tools, parts logistics and software; the manufacturer buys components and engineering.
• Inputs sell through retail. Nutrien distributes crop nutrients, crop protection, seed and services directly to farmers through its retail locations, so agronomy tools and services are often bought by the retail business, not the producer.
• Timing follows the crop year. Spring planting and fall harvest are the busiest periods; plan conversations for the months between.

Worked example: grain storage services in Iowa and Illinois

Illustrative example. The company, its prices and its conversion rates are invented; establishment counts come from County Business Patterns 2023.

The seller: Prairie Bin Services (prairiebin.example) inspects and repairs grain bins, dryers and conveyors. The goal: maintenance contracts signed before harvest.

1. Size the market. Iowa (520) and Illinois (590) have 1,110 grain and field bean wholesaler establishments, most of them country elevators.
2. Focus on larger sites. Nationally, 1,324 of the 4,407 establishments (30%) have 10 or more employees. Applying that share gives about 333 larger sites in the two states, an estimate.
3. Group by owner. Many sites belong to companies in the table (ADM, Cargill, Bunge, CHS, The Andersons) or to local cooperatives. Each corporate owner has a regional operations or maintenance leader; each co-op has its own general manager.
4. Do the arithmetic. If Prairie Bin reaches the right person at 40% of the 333 sites (133), 15% ask for an inspection (20) and half sign, that's 10 contracts. At an assumed $25,000 a year each, $250,000 of recurring work from one season's outreach.

Working out who owns each elevator and who runs maintenance there is the slow part; Bebop researches each account in a list and writes a playbook with the people to contact and the angle to open with.

Subject: Bin and dryer inspection before harvest at [location]

Hi [first name],

I saw [company or co-op] [added storage / took over / expanded] the [location] site.

Managers we work with in [state] tell us the worst time to find a bad bearing or a cracked sweep auger is the first week of harvest.

We inspect and repair bins, dryers and conveyors across Iowa and Illinois, with a written report for every structure. Would a pre-harvest inspection at [location] be useful this summer?

[Your name]
[Phone number]

Common mistakes

• Treating trading revenue as size of operations. It moves with crop prices.
• Calling headquarters for a site purchase. Elevators and plants often decide maintenance locally.
• Treating a cooperative system as one buyer. Each local co-op may decide for itself.
• Pitching in harvest. Customers have no time in planting and harvest seasons.

Next step: see the next stage of the chain in the largest food companies.