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Crop Science Solutions
Integrated market intelligence for crop protection, biologicals, seed innovation, and digital agriculture
Make sense of an evolving crop science market
Make faster, more confident decisions across the global crop science landscape with our integrated news, analysis, and market data—built for teams covering crop protection, biologicals, seeds, GMOs/NBTs, and digital/precision agriculture. With extensive historical market coverage and 10-year forecasts, our best in class crop science insights helps you anticipate change, quantify opportunity, and plan with confidence so your organization can:
- Identify growth opportunities
- Assess competitive positioning
- Monitor regulatory change
- Support long-term strategy with forecasts
Crop Science by Numbers
Our Crop Science Solution is Ideal For
Market Intelligence Teams
Improve forecasting accuracy, strengthen strategic planning and monitor market developments with detailed segmentation, competitive intelligence and industry analysis.
Product & R&D Teams
Understand innovation pipelines, evaluate emerging technologies and identify new commercial opportunities across crop protection, biologicals and seed innovation.
Sales & Marketing Teams
Identify high-growth markets, assess customer demand and prioritize commercial efforts using market performance and trend analysis.
Regulatory Teams
Stay ahead of approvals, bans and regulatory developments affecting products, technologies and market access.
What can you do with Crop Science Solutions?
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Explore crop protection and biologicals market dynamics
Get integrated coverage across conventional crop protection and biologicals, including:
- Agrochemicals (e.g., fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, plant growth regulators, fumigants and pheromones)
- Biologicals (e.g., bio stimulants, biofertilizers, biocontrol categories)
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Track seeds and seed innovation—from varieties to traits
Use seed market data to understand value, volume, and market structure, including:
- seed varieties and traits
- leading breeders/varieties and company information
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Follow GMO, NBT, and gene-edited product intelligence
Track seed innovation through R&D to market status, including:
- 3,000+ GMOs
- 800+ NBT entries
- coverage across 60 crop categories and 59 countries
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Support market performance, history, and forecasts
Explore historic market performance and forecast outlooks from the perspective of leading crop protection and seed country/crop markets and product perspectives—with:
- Extensive crop protection and seed news heritage, supported by historical news archive access through S&P Connect.
- Market segment history back to 2000
- 10-year forecasts
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Stay ahead with daily headlines, analysis, and trackers
Get comprehensive daily monitoring of industry developments, including updates on:
- regulatory and legal changes
- market trends, innovation in agricultural biotechnology and digital agriculture
- deals, investments, sustainability in agriculture initiatives, and financial reporting Plus expert-led interviews and dedicated data trackers for:
- M&A
- active ingredient approvals and bans
- R&D pipelines
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Coverage Areas
Our Crop Science solutions offer comprehensive global coverage in the agrochemicals market, biological, and seed markets, including genetically modified, conventional, and gene-edited products. These crop science services are accessible through our Crop Science Market Insights package.
Reporting
What is happening in the agrochemicals, biological, seed, and digital agriculture markets?
- News reporting service tracking all notable events from collaborations, M&A, product launches/bans, company financial results, and policy updates.
- Detailed interviews with senior stakeholders across respective industries.
- Data tools tracking M&A, product approvals and bans.
Data
How are the markets structured?
Our Crop Science solution provides global segmentation by geography, crop, product, and company, supported by extensive market research and innovation datasets.
- Agrochemicals: Market data covering 780+ active ingredients, 16,500+ brands, 69 country markets, and 14 crop groups, with insights into leading products, companies, market share, and competitive dynamics (2017 onwards).
- Biologicals: Comprehensive tracking of 700+ companies, 7,000+ brands, 2,000+ active ingredients at species and strain level, 2,600+ industry events, 200+ R&D pipeline ingredients, and key developments across biopesticide, biostimulant, and biofertilizer markets.
- Seeds & Seed Innovation: Data covering varieties, traits, and company activity across 50+ country markets and 9 crop groups (2018 onwards), alongside tracking of GM, gene-edited, and new breeding technology (NBT) products from R&D through commercialization.
Analysis
Why is the market increasing/decreasing?
- Executive summaries of crop protection market (agrochemicals and biologicals) and seed markets.
- Profiles of leading crop science company performance.
- Profiles of the leading country/crop/product sector performance, including tracking research and development pipelines.
- Historic data and market forecasts.
Capabilities
Industry Overview & Outlooks
Understand the trends shaping global crop protection, biologicals and seed markets through expert analysis, market outlooks and long-term forecasts. Gain a deeper understanding of market drivers, emerging opportunities and future growth potential to support strategic planning and investment decisions.
Market Performance Insights
Evaluate historical performance and future market potential across key crops, products and geographies. Analyze market trends, demand drivers and forecast developments to better understand competitive positioning and identify areas for growth.
Company Profiles
Benchmark performance and monitor strategy across the leading crop science companies. Access detailed profiles covering business performance, commercial priorities, product portfolios and strategic developments to support competitive intelligence and market analysis.
Market Data
Access comprehensive market data spanning agrochemicals, biologicals, seeds and seed innovation. Explore market size, segmentation, active ingredients, products, brands and company performance data to support forecasting, business planning and opportunity assessment.
News & Analysis
Stay ahead of industry developments with daily news, expert commentary and in-depth analysis covering regulatory changes, market trends, agricultural biotechnology, digital agriculture, sustainability initiatives, investments and corporate activity. Understand not only what is happening across the market, but why it matters to your business.
Expert Interviews
Gain direct insight from industry leaders through interviews conducted by our crop science specialists. Explore company strategies, market developments, innovation trends and the impact of evolving regulations through expert perspectives from across the crop science value chain.
Data Trackers
Monitor critical industry developments through dedicated trackers covering mergers and acquisitions, active ingredient approvals and bans, and R&D pipelines. Identify competitive threats, emerging opportunities and innovation trends earlier to support faster, more informed decision-making.
Why S&P Global Crop Science Solutions?
Make decisions with confidence using one of the industry's most comprehensive sources of crop science intelligence.
- Proprietary market datasets covering crop protection, biologicals, seed innovation and digital agriculture.
- Expert analysts tracking market, regulatory and technology developments worldwide.
- Detailed market segmentation by geography, crop, technology and company.
- Forecasts supporting long-term commercial and product strategies.
- Comprehensive intelligence spanning the full lifecycle from R&D through commercialization.
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