SynAgri

What SynAgri does

SynAgri is a privately held Canadian crop input marketing company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. The company positions itself as a full-line distributor of crop protection products (including the typical range of herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides marketed under various active ingredients) alongside a broad seed product portfolio. Its stated function is to make these inputs available to agricultural producers, implying a wholesale/retail distribution model rather than proprietary manufacturing.

The company employs between 101 and 250 staff, consistent with a mid-sized regional distribution business rather than a national agribusiness major. As a "crop input marketing company," SynAgri sits between upstream manufacturers (basic crop protection and seed producers) and downstream growers, generating revenue through product margin on resale and likely agronomic service attached to those sales. The "marketing" framing in its description suggests it also represents and promotes input brands within its territory rather than solely transacting commodity volumes.

No specific customers, sub-brands, certifications, technology platforms, partnerships, pricing structures, or financial metrics were available in the source material reviewed; the website content surfaced only a loading/verification page. Operating geographies, ownership, and funding history are likewise not documented. Available evidence supports a description of SynAgri as a long-established, privately held, mid-sized Canadian agricultural input distributor without disclosed differentiation beyond a broad product catalog.

Name

SynAgri

Website

https://synagri.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

SynAgri is a privately held Canadian crop input marketing company, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, distributing a full range of crop protection products and a wide seed portfolio to agricultural producers across Canada.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint-hyacinthe

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Core offering

SynAgri is a crop input marketing company that supplies a full range of crop protection products and a wide range of seed products to agricultural customers. The company acts as a marketing and distribution channel for crop inputs used in commercial farming operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Crop Protection Products

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

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Direct peers

• Helena Agri-Enterprises: US crop input distributor and formulator of proprietary crop protection and specialty products. Directly comparable channel model to SynAgri, with the addition of in-house formulation giving it a margin advantage SynAgri does not have.
• UAP Inc. (legacy, now Nutrien Ag Solutions): Historically one of the largest crop input distributors in Eastern Canada before consolidation into Nutrien Ag Solutions. Closest historical analog to SynAgri's Quebec-based crop protection and seed marketing model.
• Parrish & Heimbecker: Canadian, family-owned grain and crop input company with retail crop input operations across Canada. Closely comparable to SynAgri as a Canadian crop protection and seed marketer with mid-sized private ownership.
• Wilbur-Ellis: US-based crop input distributor marketing crop protection, seed, and specialty nutrition products to growers. Highly comparable business model to SynAgri, focused on retail distribution and agronomic service rather than manufacturing.

Broad incumbents

• CHS Inc. US farmer-owned cooperative distributing crop inputs, energy, and grain services. Comparable retail crop input function to SynAgri, but on a much larger scale and embedded in a vertically integrated ag platform.
• Growmark: US and Ontario-based agricultural cooperative providing crop inputs, fuel, and grain services through member retail outlets. Closely comparable distribution and agronomy model to SynAgri, with Ontario presence adjacent to SynAgri's Quebec territory.
• Nutrien Ag Solutions: Retail arm of Nutrien, formed from the merger of Agrium and PotashCorp, operating the largest crop input retail network in North America. Directly comparable to SynAgri as a crop protection and seed distributor serving Canadian growers, but at vastly greater scale and with proprietary Loveland Products.
• WinField United (Land O'Lakes): US crop input retailer and agricultural co-operative, distributing crop protection products, seed, and agronomic services through a retail network. Comparable go-to-market model to SynAgri with broader geographic reach.
• JR Simplot (Agribusiness): North American agribusiness distributing crop protection products, seed, and plant nutrition through retail branches. Comparable crop input marketing and distribution activity to SynAgri, with substantially broader geographic reach and proprietary product lines.
• Cargill (Agricultural Inputs): Global agribusiness distributing crop inputs and grain services, with significant Canadian operations. Comparable to SynAgri's crop input distribution activity, but bundled within a much larger grain and risk-management platform.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/synagri_sec

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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