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Q2 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Company Results: Themes, Highlights and Analysis

A synthesis across BASF, Bayer, Corteva, FMC and UPL Q2 2025 results with insights and analysis for agribusiness leaders

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Shane Thomas
August 16, 2025 • Read Time: 3 minutes

Q2 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Company Results: Themes, Highlights and Analysis

Index

  1. Themes and Takeaways

    1. Pricing Challenges in Q2 and to Remain in H2 2025

    2. Seed Growth and Go-to-Market Shifts

    3. Biological Growth Outpacing

    4. Financial Growth

    5. Other

  2. Bayer Crop Science

  3. Corteva

  4. BASF

  5. FMC

  6. UPL

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Summary

Themes and Takeaways

1. Pricing Challenges in Q2 and to Remain in H2 2025

Across the industry, crop protection pricing was challenged. Most companies cited competitive intensity in Latin America being the worst— particularly Brazil. For example, pricing was up 1% in North America for Corteva while being down 9% in LatAm.

The outlook for the remainder of 2025 from most entities cited pricing pressure as a watch out.

Corteva commentary on volume growth and pricing dynamics:

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