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Emerging Trends and Opportunities in the World Pesticides Market
November 1, 2008
Just thinking about pests may be enough to provoke great anxiety in everyone from
homeowners to farmers. Insects, rodents and noxious weeds can spread diseases,
inflict injury, initiate allergies, trigger asthma and damage food—a major concern as the
world population expands and food prices rise. It’s no wonder that the global and U.S.
pesticide industry is growing and innovating in spite of vociferous challenges from
extreme environmental groups and heavy media scrutiny. In fact, Specialists in
Business Information estimates the global pesticide market surged 29% over the 2007
level of $40.7 billion to $52.4 billion—a record increase that came at a time when a
global financial crisis was in full swing.
This all-new Specialists in Business Information report looks at challenges and
opportunities in pesticides market, such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, corporate
ethics, counterfeiting and a special section on the green and organic movements.
The report contains detailed data and analysis describing the U.S. market for pesticides.
And because the supply and demand of pesticides is much more expansive, the U.S.
market is also looked at in the context of the global marketplace. The report examines
both the value of the market, various components of trade, an analysis of economic
factors affecting the industry, in addition to a major end-user market analysis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Executive Summary
Scope of the Report
Methodology
Worldwide Market Size and Growth
Worldwide Market Surges 29%
Figure 1-1: Estimated Worldwide Pesticide Market, 1999-2008 (in billions of
dollars)
U.S. Market Size and Growth
U.S. Market Up 25%

2. Figure 1-2: U.S. Pesticide Apparent Consumption and Percent of Worldwide
Market, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Components of Trade
Table 1-1: U.S. Components of Trade: Shipments, Imports, Exports and
Apparent Consumption 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Market Forecast
Worldwide Market to $73 Billion and U.S. to $25 Billion by 2013
Figure 1-3: Estimated U.S. Pesticide Market Forecast, 2008-2013 (in billions of
dollars)
Competitive Overview
Global Competition Level Moderate
Product Depth, Global Expansion Separate Company Castes
Merging of Businesses
Seeds of Paradigm Shift
Global Competitors
Table 1-2: Top 20 Pesticide Manufacturers by Worldwide Sales, 2004-2008 (in
millions of dollars)
Trends: Challenges and Opportunities
Pesticides Harm Biodiversity?
Birds, Bees and….Humans May Suffer
Well-Organized Groups Target Industry
The Industry’s POV: Assertive and Meticulous
Another Touchy Subject: Animal Testing
Biotech: The Modern Pest Control
Genetic Modification Sees Biotech Backlash
Enter Nanotechnology
Agriculture Made More Difficult by Severe Weather
Growing Population & Rising Food Costs
Organic and Green Captures Country’s Attention
Pesticide Industry Perspective: Sustainability Is Not Black and White
End Users
Pesticide Expenditures Grow 13% Annually
Table 1-3: Estimated Share U.S. Pesticide Expenditures by Market Sector, 2008
(percent)
Figure 1-4: Estimated Share U.S. Pesticide Expenditures by Market Sector, 2008
(percent)
Chapter 2: The Market
Scope of the Report
Methodology
Pesticide Primer
Pesticides Uses
Pesticide Definitions
Herbicides
Fungicides
Insecticides
Other Products

3. Residual
Contact
Systemic
Genetically Modified Organisms
Integrated Pest Management
Worldwide Market Size and Growth
Worldwide Market Surges 29%
Figure 2-1: Estimated Worldwide Pesticide Market, 1999-2008 (in billions of
dollars)
Market Surge Due to Largely Lower Dollar, Increased Prices
Growth in 2007 Driven by International Demand
Accelerated Growth Comes After a 2006 Pause
Table 2-1: Estimated Worldwide Pesticide Market and Year-over-Year
Percentage Change, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Worldwide Market by Pesticide Type
Figure 2-2: Estimated Share of Worldwide Pesticides by Type, 2008 (percent)
U.S. Market Size and Growth
U.S. Market Up 25%
Figure 2-3: U.S. Pesticide Apparent Consumption and Percent of Worldwide
Market, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Higher Prices Drive Growth, Volume Secondary
Table 2-2: U.S. Pesticide Apparent Consumption and Year-over-Year
Percentage Change, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Components of Trade
Imports Fell 12% in 2008
Exports Rose 14% in 2008
Table 2-3: U.S. Components of Trade: Shipments, Imports, Exports and
Apparent Consumption 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Declining Dollar Causes Net Shipments, Imports Shift
Figure 2-4: U.S. Pesticide Net Shipments (Shipments less Exports) and Percent
of U.S. Apparent Consumption, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Figure 2-5: U.S. Pesticide Net Shipments (Shipments less Exports) and Percent
of U.S. Apparent Consumption, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Exports Resumes Long-Term Trend
Figure 2-6: U.S. Pesticide Exports and Percent of U.S. Shipments 1999-2008 (in
billions of dollars)
U.S. Manufacturing Breakdown
Table 2-4: U.S. Pesticide Manufacturing Shipment Value by End-Use Market,
1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Lawn and Garden Pesticides Showed Greatest Period of Growth
Figure 2-7: Estimated Share of U.S. Pesticide Manufacturing by End-Use Market,
2008 (percent)
Agricultural & Commercial Pesticide Shipments
Figure 2-8: U.S. Agricultural & Commercial Pesticide Manufacturing Shipment
Value and Percent of Total U.S. Shipments, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Lawn & Garden Pesticide Shipments

4. Figure 2-9: U.S. Lawn & Garden Pesticide Manufacturing Shipment Value and
Percent of Total U.S. Shipments, 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Household & Institutional Pesticide Shipments
Figure 2-10: U.S. Household & Institutional Pesticide Manufacturing Shipment
Value and Percent of Total U.S. Shipments, 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Bulk Pesticide Shipments
Figure 2-11: U.S. Bulk Pesticide & Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing
Shipment Value and Percent of Total U.S. Shipments, 1999-2008 (in millions of
dollars)
U.S. Imports by Pesticide Type
Table 2-5: U.S. Pesticide Imports by Type,1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 2-12: Estimated Share of U.S. Pesticide Imports by Type, 2008 (percent)
U.S. Exports by Pesticide Type
Table 2-6: U.S. Pesticide Exports by Type, 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 2-13: Estimated Share of U.S. Pesticide Exports by Type, 2008 (percent)
U.S. Imports by Country of Origin
Table 2-7: U.S. Formed, Packaged, or Prepared Pesticide Imports by Country of
Origin, 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 2-14: Estimated Share of Pesticide Imports by Country of Origin, 2008
(percent)
U.S. Exports by Country of Destination
Table 2-8: U.S. Formed, Packaged, or Prepared Pesticide Exports by Country of
Destination, 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 2-15: Estimated Share of Pesticide Exports by Country of Destination,
2008 (percent)
Market Forecast
Worldwide Market to Reach $73 Billion
Figure 2-16: Estimated Worldwide Pesticide Market Forecast, 2008-2013 (in
billions of dollars)
U.S. Market to Pause in 2009, Top $25 Billion by 2013
Figure 2-17: Estimated U.S. Pesticide Market Forecast, 2008-2013 (in billions of
dollars)
Table 2-9: Forecast of Worldwide Market and U.S. Components of Trade:
Shipments, Imports, Exports Apparent Consumption, 2008-2013 (in millions of
dollars)
Global Financial Crisis
Pressure on Demand
Chapter 3: Competitor Profiles
Competitive Landscape
Global Competition Level Moderate
North American Competition Level Intensely Competitive
Bio-Pharma Style Boom Underway?
Product Depth, Global Expansion Separate Company Castes
Merging of Businesses
Seeds of Paradigm Shift
Global Competitors

5. Table 3-1: Top 20 Pesticide Manufacturers by Worldwide Sales, 2004-2008 (in
millions of dollars)
Figure 3-1: Estimated Share of Worldwide Pesticide Sales by Company, 2008
(percent)
North American Competitors
Table 3-2: Top 20 Pesticide Manufacturers by North American Sales, 2004-2008
(in millions of dollars)
Figure 3-2: Estimated Share of North America Pesticide Sales by Company,
2008 (percent)
BASF Crop Protection
Overview
Performance
Table 3-3: BASF Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-2008
(in millions of dollars)
Figure 3-3: BASF Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-2008
(in millions of dollars)
Fungicides Account for Lion Share
Figure 3-4: Estimated Share of BASF Pesticide Sales by Type, 2008 (percent)
Interceptor Malaria Nets Donation
F 500 Soybean Solution
Bayer CropScience
Overview
Performance
Table 3-4: Bayer CropScience Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-2008 (in
millions of dollars)
Figure 3-5: Bayer CropScience Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-2008
(in millions of dollars)
Herbicide Business 35% Share
Figure 3-6: Estimated Share of Bayer CropScience Pesticide Sales by Type,
2008 (percent)
New Corn Herbicide, Adengo
Bee-ing Helpful in Germany
Spirotetramat Granted Approval in U.S. and Canada
Dow AgroSciences
Overview
Performance
Table 3-5: Dow AgroSciences Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by
Destination, 2004-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 3-7: Dow AgroSciences Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-2008 (in
millions of dollars)
2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Fallout Between Dow and EPA Region 5
DuPont Crop Protection
Overview
Performance

6. Table 3-6: DuPont Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-
2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 3-8: DuPont Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-
2008 (in millions of dollars)
Herbicides Accounts for More Than Half of Business
Figure 3-9: Estimated Share of DuPont Crop Protection Pesticide Sales by Type,
2008 (percent)
Valent Deal With Ingredient Flumioxazin
2008 R&D 100 Award for DuPont Rynaxypyr
FMC Corporation
Overview
Performance
Table 3-7: FMC Corp Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-
2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 3-10: FMC Corp Agricultural Chemical Pesticide Net Sales by Destination,
2004-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Insecticides Slightly Larger Piece of Business
Figure 3-11: Estimated Share of FMC Corp Pesticide Sales by Type, 2008
(percent)
FMC Disputes EPA Position in Carbofuran
Transport Termiticide Insecticide Approved by EPA in 2007
Exclusivity Deal for Sankyo Agro’s Simeconazole
Monsanto
Overview
Performance
Table 3-8: Monsanto Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-
2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 3-12: Monsanto Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-
2008 (in millions of dollars)
Settlement of Pilot Grove Suit
Monsanto Teaming with Archer Daniels Midland and John Deere
Spectrum Brands, Inc.
Overview
Performance
Figure 3-13: Estimated Spectrum Brands Pesticide Sales, 2003-2007 (in millions
of dollars)
Spectrum Sells Canadian Division Nu-Gro
CDC Recommends Picaridin, Ingredient Found in Spectrum Product Cutter
Syngenta AG
Overview
Performance
Table 3-9: Syngenta Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-
2008 (in millions of dollars)
Figure 3-14: Syngenta Crop Protection Pesticide Net Sales by Destination, 2004-
2008 (in millions of dollars)
Professional Products in The Mix, Account for 15%

7. Figure 3-15: Estimated Share of Syngenta Pesticide Sales by Type, 2008
(percent)
Syngenta and DuPont Develop Pioneer Hi-Bred Biotech
Donation to Maize Functional Diversity Group
Strategic Alliance with AgroFresh
Chapter 4: Trends: Challenges and Opportunities
Economic Crisis Peaks
2008 Real GDP Growth Forecasted at a Meager 1.1%
Figure 4-1: U.S. Current-Dollar GDP vs. Real GDP, 2000-2008 (in trillions of
dollars)
GDP Price Index Ticked Up
Figure 4-2: Percentage Changes in U.S. Current-Dollar GDP, Real GDP and the
GDP Price Index, 2002-2008 (percent)
Economic Future Uncertain
U.S. Dollar Decline
Figure 4-3: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Trade-Weighted Dollar Index,
January 1995-September 2008 (index)
Producer Prices
Figure 4-4: Other Agricultural Chemicals Index, 1999-2008 (index)
Figure 4-5: Percentage Change in the Other Agricultural Chemicals Producer
Price Index, 1999-2008(percent)
Commodity Prices
Figure 4-6 Percentage Change in Fruits & Melons, Fresh/Dry Vegetables & Nuts
Indexes, 1999-2008 (percent)
Figure 4-7: Percentage Change in Grains and Hay, Seed and Oil Seeds Indexes,
1999-2008 (percent)
Philosophical and Scientific Challenges: Bioethics and Biodiversity
Pesticides Harm Biodiversity?
Bee-ware of Pesticides
Bobolinks Being Silenced
Dangers for Humans
Studying the Link Between Parkinson’s Disease and Pesticides
Contamination in Spain
U.S. Waters Brim with Pesticides
Endangered Species Up The Ante: Salmon
“Super Lice”
Well-Organized Groups Target Industry
The Industry’s POV: Assertive and Meticulous
Acknowledgement is Key
Bioethics Key But So Is Corporate Ethics
Another Touchy Subject: Animal Testing
New EPA Workgroup On Testing Paradigms
Other Side Loud and Proud: PeTA
Biotech: The Modern Pest Control
No-Till Agriculture = Better Conservation
Genetic Modification Sees Biotech Backlash

8. Fear of Super Weeds and Super Bugs
Gene Use Restriction Technology
Hard Questions In The Future
Enter Nanotechnology
Industry Hot on Nano
Is Nano As Scary as GM?
Agriculture Made More Difficult by Severe Weather
Expansion in Genetic Diversity to Counter Climate Issues
The Pesticide Industry’s Innovating in Face of Climate Issues
Growing Population + Rising Food Costs = Pesticide Perfect Storm
What Can Pesticide Companies Do?
Post-Patent Pesticides and Counterfeiting
Chapter 5: A Look at Organic and Green
Organic Captures Country’s Attention
The Science of Food Growth Scares People
Response to Post-WWII Food and Farming Innovations
Return to Smaller Scale Production and Less Processed Foods
Definition and Rules for Organic Foods
Definition of Local Foods and History of the Movement
How Local Is “Local”?
Is “Locally Grown” the Next “Organic”?
Buy Conventional Local Versus Buy Corporate Organic?
Media Spreads Green Culture
Beliefs Impacting Supermarket Shelf
Organic Foods Face Challenges
The Green Revolution
Pesticide Industry Perspective: Sustainability Is Not Black and White
Are Health, Safety and Organic Mutually Exclusive?
Pesticide Companies Talk The Talk
Green Movement Can Make Pesticide Industry Smarter
Compromise in Smaller Farms?
Organic Potential Problem for the Consumer Pesticide Marketplace
At-Home Integrated Pest Management
Organic Pesticides?
Lawn and Garden Pragmatism May Also Effect Marketplace
Native Lawns
Edible Yards
Impact of Alternative Consumer L&G Concepts
Chapter 6: Regulatory Overview
U.S. Federal Regulation of Pesticides
Pesticide Registration
Labeling: Pesticides
The Food Quality Protection Act
2006 EPA Pesticide Review
Controversy over Organophosphates, Carbamates
Improved EPA Pesticide Process

9. New Regulation Related to FIFRA
New EPA Restrictions Target Five Fumigants
Montebello Agreement
Issues For The Future
Animal Testing
Nanotechnology
Pesticide Data Program Continues Testing
Chapter 7: End Users
Market Sector Overview
Agricultural
Industry/Commercial/Government
Home & Garden
Pesticide Expenditures Grow 13% Annually
Table 7-1: Estimated Share U.S. Pesticide Expenditures by Market Sector, 2008
(percent)
Table 7-2: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides and Year-over-
Year Percentage Change, 1999-2008(in millions of dollars)
Agricultural Accounts for 68%
Figure 7-1: Estimated Share U.S. Pesticide Expenditures by Market Sector, 2008
(percent)
Growth Rockets in New Millennium
Figure 7-2: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides by Major Market
Sector, 1982-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Agricultural Market Sector
32% Year-Over-Year Growth in 2008
Agriculture Expenditure May Reach 70% Again
Figure 7-3: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides: U.S. Agricultural
Market Sector, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Table 7-3: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides: U.S. Agricultural
Market Sector; and Year-over-Year Percentage Change, 1999-2008 (in millions
of dollars)
USDA Sees Lower Growth in 2008
Figure 7-4: Purchased Pesticide Inputs for Agriculture Sector Production and
Percent of Total Manufactured Inputs,1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Table 7-4: Purchased Pesticide Inputs for Agriculture Sector Production and
Year-over-Year Percentage Change, 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Industry/Commercial/Government Market Sector
Growth in 2008 Robust But Outlook Dim
Figure 7-5: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides: U.S.
Industry/Commercial/Government Market Sector, 1999-2008 (in billions of
dollars)
Table 7-5: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides: U.S. Industry/
Commercial/ Government Market Sector; and Year-over-Year Percentage
Change, 1999-2008 (in millions of dollars)
Home & Garden Market Sector
Overall Unit Consumption May Be Tamed By Recession

10. Prices Increase 3% to 5% Likely
Figure 7-6: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides: U.S. Home and
Garden Market Sector, 1999-2008 (in billions of dollars)
Table 7-6: Estimated Annual User Expenditures of Pesticides: U.S. Home and
Garden Market Sector; and Year-over-Year Percentage Change, 1999-2008 (in
millions of dollars)
Exterminating & Pest Control Services
Service Industry Shows Steady Growth
Figure 7-7: U.S. Exterminating & Pest Control Services Revenues, 1999-2008 (in
billions of dollars)
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