The US fertilizer industry is one of the world’s most productive agricultural systems. Every year, American farmers apply roughly 20 million metric tons of fertilizer nutrients to fields growing corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, fruits, vegetables, and dozens of other crops. [1]
These fertilizers play an important role in sustaining the country’s agricultural output, which feeds more than 330 million Americans while supporting one of the world’s largest food export industries.
Today’s fertilizer industry is also undergoing rapid transformation. Many companies are investing billions to expand ammonia production, reduce carbon emissions, produce low-carbon or “blue” ammonia, and adopt digital farming technologies.
Below are the top fertilizer companies in the U.S. helping growers increase crop yields while reducing nutrient losses and environmental impact. Many operate large ammonia plants, phosphate mines, and potash distribution networks.
Did you know?Nitrogen, phosphate, and potash are the three essential crop nutrients. Nitrogen accounts for nearly 59% of all fertilizer consumption in the United States, followed by potash at about 22% and phosphate at 19%. [1]
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12. Yara North America
Founded in 1905Key Products: Nitrogen, phosphate, potash, custom fertilizer blends
Revenue: $16.32 billion+ (global)
Competitive Edge: Premium specialty fertilizer portfolio
Yara serves growers throughout the United States and Canada by offering a comprehensive portfolio of nitrogen fertilizers, specialty plant nutrition products, micronutrients, biostimulants, and precision farming solutions.
In North America, the company markets high-value fertilizer brands such as YaraLiva calcium nitrate fertilizers, YaraMila NPK fertilizers, YaraVita micronutrients, YaraAmplix biostimulants, and specialty fertigation products.
These products are widely used in row crops, fruits, vegetables, orchards, vineyards, turf, greenhouse production, and specialty agriculture.
Yara has invested heavily in precision nutrient management, satellite-based crop monitoring, and climate-smart farming solutions. Through platforms like Atfarm and Yara Digital Farming, growers can optimize fertilizer application using field-specific recommendations based on crop conditions and satellite imagery.
In short, Yara combines fertilizers with agronomic consulting, digital farming tools, and precision nutrient recommendations, making it more than just a fertilizer supplier. [2]
11. The Andersons
Founded in 1947Key Products: Nitrogen, phosphate, potash, specialty fertilizers
Employees: 2,100
Competitive Edge: Massive infrastructure
The Andersons combines grain merchandising, fertilizer production, plant nutrients, logistics, renewable fuels, and commodity risk management in a single integrated business.
In 2025, the company generated $11 billion in revenue while employing around 2,100 people across a network of approximately 175 agribusiness facilities.
While The Andersons is widely known for grain merchandising, fertilizer is one of its most important businesses, serving thousands of growers across the US Corn Belt.
The company supplies nitrogen, phosphate, potash, specialty fertilizers, micronutrients, and industrial plant nutrients. It also provides grain marketing, storage, transportation, and supply chain services. In 2025, The Andersons sold approximately 2 million tons of fertilizer.
Perhaps the company’s greatest strength is its scale. The Andersons merchandises 33 million tonnes of agricultural commodities annually while operating grain storage facilities capable of holding around 270 million bushels. [3]
10. CVR Partners
Key Products: UAN, Anhydrous Ammonia
Revenue: $643 million+
Competitive Edge: Strategic Midwest manufacturing locations
CVR Partners is one of the few publicly traded fertilizer companies in the United States that focuses exclusively on nitrogen fertilizers.
It manufactures two essential nitrogen products — urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) and anhydrous ammonia — that are widely used by corn, wheat, soybean, and other row-crop producers.
It operates only two fertilizer manufacturing complexes, but both occupy strategically important locations within the US Corn Belt. Together, these facilities can produce roughly 815,000 tons of ammonia and 1.3 million tons of UAN annually.
In FY 2026, CVR Partners generated approximately $643 million in revenue and $121.49 million in net profit. Looking ahead, management expects strong demand for nitrogen fertilizers, supported by healthy US corn acreage, low fertilizer inventories, and ongoing global supply constraints. [4]
9. Growmark
Founded in 1980Key Products: Nitrogen, phosphate, potash, custom fertilizer blends
Employees: 4,000
Competitive Edge: Well-established FS retail network
Growmark is one of the biggest farmer-owned agricultural cooperatives in North America. It serves hundreds of thousands of growers through a network of more than 250 locally owned FS cooperatives across the US Midwest and Ontario, Canada.
Through its well-known FS retail brand, the cooperative supplies nitrogen, phosphate, potash, specialty fertilizers, micronutrients, crop protection products, and precision agriculture services.
The company focuses on sourcing, blending, distributing, and applying crop nutrients while providing growers with customized agronomic recommendations.
Plus, Growmark’s extensive river and rail terminal network helps it efficiently procure, store, blend, and distribute more than 4 million tons of fertilizer annually across the US and Canada.
8. CHS Inc.
Key Products: Nitrogen, phosphate, potash, crop nutrients
Revenue: $35.5 billion+
Competitive Edge: Strong financial scale
CHS Inc. is the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the United States. While it was formed in 1998 through the merger of Cenex and Harvest States Cooperative, its cooperative history dates back to 1929.
Today, CHS runs a very diversified business model, serving customers in 65+ countries and generating over $35.5 billion in annual revenue. [5]
Agronomy is one of its core businesses, with fertilizers playing a major role in its crop input portfolio. CHS supplies nitrogen, phosphate, potash, specialty fertilizers, micronutrients, crop protection products, seed, and precision agriculture services.
Unlike publicly traded agribusiness companies, CHS operates as a cooperative owned by its member cooperatives and farmers. Instead of maximizing shareholder returns, the company returns profits to its owners through patronage payments and equity redemptions.
7. Wilbur-Ellis Agribusiness
Founded in 1921Key Products: Fertilizers, micronutrients
Parent: Marubeni Corporation
Competitive Edge: Proprietary crop nutrition products
Wilbur-Ellis purchases, formulates, blends, and distributes crop nutrients while helping growers optimize fertilizer use through soil analysis, precision agriculture, and digital technologies.
Its product portfolio includes commodity fertilizers, specialty nutrition products, micronutrients, biological crop inputs, adjuvants, seed, and crop protection solutions.
The company also operates AgVerdict, a digital agronomy platform that integrates field mapping, nutrient planning, crop monitoring, and farm management into a single decision-support system.
In fact, technology has become another major differentiator for Wilbur-Ellis. In 2025, the company launched NUTRIO N-TUNE, a nitrogen management solution designed to help growers optimize nitrogen application timing and improve nutrient-use efficiency.
They also introduced BenVireo TerraLux, a plant-available organic nitrogen fertilizer designed to provide organic producers with a high-performance nitrogen source. [6]
6. Helena Agri-Enterprises
Key Products: Fertilizers, specialty nutrients, crop protection
Parent: Marubeni Corporation
Competitive Edge: Nationwide distribution network
Helena serves growers across 48 states through a network of more than 500 retail locations and approximately 6,000 employees
Rather than operating primarily as a fertilizer manufacturer, Helena has integrated fertilizer distribution, crop protection, precision agriculture, and agronomic consulting into a comprehensive farm solutions business.
Today, fertilizers are Helena’s largest business segment, accounting for about 42% of its agricultural retail sales. Crop protection products contribute 39%, followed by seed at 16% and custom application services at 3%.
Through Helena Products Group, the company develops proprietary fertilizers, adjuvants, nutritionals, bioscience products, and seed treatments. This gives Helena a competitive edge over distributors that mainly sell third-party brands.
Their long-term growth has been driven by acquisitions and geographic expansion. Between 2013 and 2021, Helena acquired 121 agricultural retail locations, substantially expanding its national footprint. By 2023, annual sales had surpassed $7 billion.
These days, the company is investing in sustainability, precision agriculture, and integrated crop management to support future growth.
5. J.R. Simplot Company
Founded in 1929Key Products: Phosphate and liquid fertilizers
Employees: 18,000+
Competitive Edge: Fully integrated Agribusiness model
While many consumers recognize Simplot as a supplier of frozen French fries to major restaurant chains, agriculture remains one of its core businesses.
The company has built an integrated agribusiness spanning phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, crop nutrition, seed production, farming, ranching, and food processing.
It employs more than 18,000 people, generates an estimated $11 billion in annual revenue, and operates in 60+ countries.
Within the fertilizer industry, Simplot is best known through Simplot Grower Solutions, one of North America’s leading agricultural retail and crop nutrition businesses. The company manufactures phosphate, specialty, and liquid fertilizers, as well as micronutrients and crop nutrition products.
It also provides agronomic consulting, precision agriculture, soil testing, and crop protection products. Its network of crop advisors currently supports more than 38,000 growers across North America.
4. Koch Fertilizer
Key Products: Anhydrous Ammonia, Urea, UAN
Employees: 3,000+
Competitive Edge: Extensive manufacturing footprint
Koch Fertilizer manufactures essential nitrogen fertilizers, including anhydrous ammonia, urea, urea ammonium nitrate (UAN), ammonium polyphosphate (APP), ammonium thiosulfate (ATS), and its premium enhanced-efficiency fertilizer, SUPERU.
SUPERU, in particular, reduces nitrogen losses and improves nutrient-use efficiency, helping growers maximize yields while lowering environmental impacts.
Koch Fertilizer’s biggest strength is its vertically integrated supply chain. The company converts natural gas (the main raw material for nitrogen fertilizer) into ammonia at its own production facilities, then processes it into products such as urea, UAN, APP, ATS, and other specialty fertilizers.
These products are used widely in the production of corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, canola, and many other crops across North America and international markets.
Unlike publicly traded fertilizer companies, Koch Fertilizer benefits from being part of Koch Inc., whose annual revenues exceed $125 billion.
The fertilizer business operates 5 wholly owned nitrogen production facilities located in the US and Canada, maintains partial ownership in 3 nitrogen plants in Trinidad and Tobago, and 1 phosphate production facility in Morocco.
3. Nutrien Ag Solutions
Key Products: Potash, Nitrogen, Phosphate
Revenue: $27.8 billion+
Competitive Edge: Integrated fertilizer supply chain
Nutrien Ag Solutions is the retail division of Nutrien Ltd. and the world’s largest agricultural retailer.
Its network of more than 4,200 crop consultants works directly with growers, offering services such as soil testing, crop planning, seed selection, variable-rate fertilizer application, crop monitoring, and farm management advice. This advisory approach sets Nutrien apart from distributors that mainly compete on price.
The company’s greatest strength is its integration with Nutrien’s upstream fertilizer production business. While many agricultural retailers purchase fertilizers from third parties, Nutrien Ag Solutions sources products directly from Nutrien’s high-quality potash, nitrogen, and phosphate operations.
The company is currently expanding its precision agriculture platform by integrating satellite imagery, soil analytics, weather data, variable-rate fertilizer recommendations, and farm management software into a single ecosystem.
In 2025, Nutrien generated $26.9 billion in revenue, with the Retail segment contributing nearly $17.6 billion. [7]
2. CF Industries
Key Products: Ammonia, Granular Urea
Revenue: $7 billion+
Competitive Edge: Massive Ammonia production capacity
CF Industries is one of the world’s largest producers of nitrogen fertilizers and the largest ammonia producer in North America.
It operates one of the biggest integrated nitrogen manufacturing networks, producing ammonia, urea, urea ammonium nitrate (UAN), ammonium nitrate (AN), and industrial nitrogen products that support both agriculture and industrial markets.
Since the company focuses almost exclusively on nitrogen fertilizers, it has become exceptionally efficient in ammonia production — the building block for virtually every nitrogen fertilizer.
In 2025, CF sold 9.1 million tons of nitrogen products and produced a record 10.1 million tons of gross ammonia. Its manufacturing network operated at nearly 97% capacity, helping the company generate $7.08 billion in revenue and $1.46 billion in net income.
That same year, CF announced a $4 billion joint venture with JERA and Mitsui to build the world’s largest low-carbon ammonia plant in Louisiana. Scheduled to begin operations in 2029, the facility will produce up to 1.4 million metric tons of ammonia annually. [8]
1. The Mosaic Company
Key Products: Phosphate fertilizers, Potash
Revenue: $12 billion+
Competitive Edge: Dominant North American market share
The Mosaic Company is the global leader in phosphate crop nutrients. It operates major mining and manufacturing assets across North and South America and produces millions of tonnes of phosphate- and potash-based fertilizers every year.
It owns phosphate mines, potash mines, chemical plants, processing facilities, blending operations, and distribution networks. This vertical integration lowers production costs and improves supply reliability.
The company has built a diversified portfolio spanning phosphate fertilizers, potash fertilizers, animal feed ingredients, and premium specialty nutrition products.
Its greatest strength is its scale. Mosaic accounts for roughly 10% of global phosphate production and 12% of global potash production. In North America, Mosaic produces nearly 72% of concentrated phosphate fertilizers and 34% of potash. [9]
And through its Brazilian subsidiary, Mosaic Fertilizantes, the company has also become Brazil’s largest fertilizer producer and distributor.
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- US fertilizer consumption rebounds significantly, USDA
- Stronger performance and sharper priorities, Yara
- Schedule 14A of The Andersons, SEC
- CVR Partners’ revenue throughout the years, Macrotrends
- CHS reports FY 2025 net income of $597.9 million, CHS
- BenVireo TerraLux is an OMRI Listed organic ammonium nitrate liquid fertilizer, Wilbur-Ellis Company
- Nutrien reports full-year 2025 results and provides 2026 guidance, Nutrien
- CF Industries forms a $4 billion low-carbon ammonia plant, Reuters
- Annual report for FY ending 2025 (Form 10-K), PublicNow
