Agriculture and farming stocks

Agriculture benefits from a rising middle class in emerging economies. To sustain everyone's satiety, this group of agri-enablers is indispensable.

Agriculture stocks and ETFs:

• Fertilizer stocks (NTR, MOS, CF, IPI, UAN, TNH, RNF, RTK, BG)
• Farm machinery (DE, AGCO, CNH, TITN)
• Seed names (DD, DOW)
• Irrigation (LNN) 
• Ag processors (ADM, ANDE)
• Livestock (SAFM, HRL, SFD, TSN). 

Related ETFs: JJG (grains ETF), CORN (corn ETF), WEAT (wheat ETF), DBA (Invesco DB Agriculture Fund)

 (by market cap)                        
Company name Mkt Cap ($ billion)▼

• DE  Deere & Co  55.222B
• NTR  Nutrien   26.695B
• ADM  Archer-Daniels Midland Co   23.782B
• KUBTY  Kubota Corporation  19.112B
• FMC   FMC Corp   12.602B
• CF   CF Industries Holdings  9.774B
• BG  Bunge Ltd   7.661B
• MOS  The Mosaic Co  6.878B
• SQM  Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA    6.132B
• AGCO   AGCO Corp  6.02B
• SMG  The Scotts Miracle-Gro   5.55B
• INGR  Ingredion Inc  5.541B
• DAR  Darling International Inc   3.774B
• CALM  Cal-Maine Foods Inc  2.086B
• FDP  Fresh Del Monte Produce  1.509B
• LNN  Lindsay Corp  945.743M
• AGRO  Adecoagro SA   793.024M
• ANDE  The Andersons  768.219M
• AVD   American Vanguard Corp  446.765M
• TITN  Titan Machinery   397.003M
• CHSCP  CHS Inc  347.42M
• UAN   CVR Partners LP   331.421M
• IPI   Intrepid Potash   282.418M
• TWI  Titan International Inc  176.643M

Acquisitions:

• Monsanto (NYSE:MON) acquired by Bayer (OTCPK:BAYRY) for $62B. (5/23/16)
• Syngenta Ltd (SYT): acquired by China’s ChemChina for $44 billion or 480 Swiss francs per share. (Feb 2016)
• Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc (POT) and Agrium Inc. (AGU) merged in 2016 and were renamed Nutrien (NTR).

Others:

• Dole Food Company Inc - Private
• Terra Nitrogen Company (TNH) - deregistered from NYSE (4/18); parent company is CF Industries

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