Upstream Ag Professional - November 16th 2025

Welcome to the 119th edition of Upstream Ag Professional

Index

1. Q3 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Results Highlights and Analysis

2. What Comes After Glyphosate?

3. ICLs New Ambition: Global Specialty Nutrition Dominance

4. Microsoft and Land O’Lakes Collaborate on AI

5. Syngenta opens Cropwise digital platform to developers to co-innovate and tackle agriculture’s technology divide

6. IBI Ag Completes $10 Million Series A Round Led by Corteva

7. Pivot Bio Expands Weatherproof Nitrogen Portfolio with New Dry Planter Box Treatments for Corn and Cotton

8. Other Interesting Ag Articles (7 this week)

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This week’s audio edition can be found here and covers the following:

1. Q3 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Results Highlights

2. ICLs New Ambition: Global Specialty Nutrition Dominance

3. Syngenta opens Cropwise digital platform to developers to co-innovate and tackle agriculture’s technology divide

1. Q3 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Results Highlights and Analysis - Upstream Ag Professional

Index for the full breakdown accessible at the link above.

1. Financial Overview

2. Themes

   1. Farmer economics are lousy

   2. Crop Protection Price Stabilization

   3. Biologicals continue to be emphasized, but not positive for all

   4. Margin Growth

   5. Seed and traits positive

3. ADAMA

4. Bayer

5. BASF

6. Corteva

7. FMC

8. Syngenta

9. UPL

Themes

The full article includes five themes, but only two of them are highlighted below.

Crop Protection Stabilization

All the major public companies emphasized demand stability:

• Bayer stated that “demand was strong as volumes increased most notably in corn and Crop Protection, offsetting regulatory challenges and pricing pressure.”

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