Farmers confront many challenges as they strive for profitability, but the persistent and widespread lack of transparency in the chemical market quickly adds substantial costs to already expensive farming essentials.
The new 2024 U.S. Ag Chem Price Transparency Report, developed using aggregated and anonymized farmer-submitted invoices, reveals extreme price differences for more than 15 commonly used ag chem products, including:
Enlist One®
Roundup PowerMAX® 3
Liberty® 280 SL
Atrazine 4
Across a wide range of ag chemical products, regardless of geography or product popularity, farmers continue to pay a wide range of prices for the same exact product. This includes both very widely used products like Roundup PowerMAX® and more specialty products products like Outlook® Herbicide and InterLock®.
The free report analyzes 2,400+ unique pricing data points across 33 states to uncover:
Up to 468% variation between the lowest and highest chem prices paid nationwide
Price differences of up to 400% within the same state
Which state had a farmer paying 27% more than another farmer living just five miles away
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