2026 Sustaining Sponsor Spotlight: Nufarm

The Ohio AgriBusiness Association is pleased to feature our Sustaining Sponsors in the 2026 Spotlight Series. This week, the focus is on Bronze Sponsor: Nufarm.

Nufarm

Location (Main Headquarters): Alsip, Illinois

Year established: 1999 (US)

Number of locations: 4 (US)

Number of employees: 3,059

About Your Company

Nufarm is a global crop protection and seed technologies company that helps farmers and businesses meet the global needs of food, feed, fibre and fuel production. We bring proven agility, capabilities and partnerships to help our customers in a rapidly changing world.

Based in Australia with North American sites at Alsip and Chicago Heights, IL, Greenville, MS, and Morrisville, NC, Nufarm supplies a growing portfolio of broad acre, specialty crop, vegetation management, and turf and ornamental protection products, including herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and plant growth regulators.

At our core, strengths in formulation and field development provide a full range of proven crop protection solutions for growers to address the threat of weeds, diseases and pests on crop yields. Our Seed Technology platform commercializes opportunities for growers through sunflower, canola and sorghum offerings in addition to nutritional and renewable energy solutions such as Omega-3 Canola, Carinata and energy cane.

Your Company Story

We are continually investing in capabilities – infrastructure, people, processes and technology – to improve reliability and be a partner for growth. Across the past two years, we’ve opened a new state-of-the-art formulation development laboratory in Morrisville, NC. Nufarm has also completed several key investments in manufacturing capabilities, just-in-time capacity and process quality.

• We’ve doubled our glyphosate capacity and expanded on-site glyphosate storage.
• As a global leader we’re backing growth of 2,4-D, doubling our esterification production.
• We have increased our seed treatment milling capacity by 300%
• Enhancements made to packing lines have resulted in 40% more packaged material per shift.
• We’ve significantly strengthened our people, processes and capabilities to deliver the products our customers need on-time and in-full.

What's next for your company? Whether it’s commercialising the world’s first plant-based omega-3, launching precision agricultural solutions, unlocking biomass oils for more sustainable fuels and fast-moving consumer goods, launching innovative new crop protection solutions or delivering the crop and seed solutions farmers depend on every day, Nufarm is evolving with agriculture to drive value for customers.

Agriculture is evolving and so is Nufarm. To clearly represent the value that we deliver, we’ve recently united Crop Protection and Seeds under one brand – Nufarm.

OABA Membership

How has OABA membership benefited your company or the agribusiness industry? 

This is our third year sponsoring the OABA and we are eager to build relationships within the organization and other partners. we look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship between Nufarm and OABA.

Interested in becoming a Sustaining Sponsor? 

Click here to learn more about the program or contact Lauren Prettyman Brown at lprettyman@oaba.net. Sustaining sponsors will automatically be promoted as such at all OABA events and will not be approached for sponsorship opportunities throughout the year. 

Note that because the OABA Educational Trust is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, sponsorships related to this trust are separate from OABA.