Agchems and Seeds: Headed for Another Solid Year

High crop prices should drive solid demand for seeds and crop protection products in 2012, and glyphosate-resistant weeds and new seed technologies could help second-tier firms such as FMC and Valent gain market share from larger players, says Jim Loar, senior v.p./sales and marketing, agribusiness division at Wilbur-Ellis Company (San Francisco), an international marketer and distributor of agricultural products. “We are coming off a very poor seed production year [in 2011,] and that alone will stress seed supply,” Loar says. Wilbur-Ellis expects...

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