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by Margy Eckelkamp, Scoop magazine
In its annual crop protection market report, Farmers Business Network (FBN) highlights its outlook for pricing and supply trends.
“There’s a lot of uncertainty going into 2026, and you can contrast that to 2025, where tariffs were mostly known going into the spring,” says John Appel, FBN vice president of category management. “2026 is going to be structurally different. We saw that in 2025, at certain points, product prices were at multi-year lows, so there was no more to go down. But now the channel inventory has been largely depleted, we know that structurally these tariffs are going to come into place from a cost perspective.”
The FBN report gives price and supply outlooks for five active ingredients: glyphosate, glufosinate, 2,4-D ester, atrazine, and S-metolachlor. A project now for 10 years, the data used in the report is sourced from growers, FBN supply chain teams, and market reports.
Appel says there’s no “one size fits all” equation to how tariffs will affect crop protection pricing and supply chains as each active ingredient is sourced different. However, with a large quantity of AI coming from China for glyphosate and glufosinate, the pricing for those products is expected to increase with at least a 20% tariff.
“Others, like 2,4-D, you have significant duties on product like that, and on top of that, countervailing and anti-dumping duties that could be up to 170%, depending on the supplier,” he says. “That’s one product we saw significantly through our price data consistently get elevated throughout the year.”
To read the entire report click here.
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