AGRAVIS Westfalen

What AGRAVIS Westfalen does

AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen GmbH is a German regional agricultural trading company serving farmers and rural consumers across the Ruhr-Lippe, Siegerland-Sauerland, Ostwestfalen, and Nordhessen regions. The company was formed in 2025 through the merger of AGRAVIS Kornhaus Westfalen-Süd GmbH and the prior AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen GmbH and operates as a subsidiary within the broader AGRAVIS cooperative agricultural network. It employs more than 220 staff across approximately 20 locations and positions itself as a full-service partner and digitalization driver for local agriculture under the slogan "Gemeinsam Stark. Für Land und Leben." (Together Strong. For Land and Life).

The company's commercial offering spans six core areas: Plant Production (seeds, fertilizers, crop protection); Agricultural Products (year-round harvest acceptance at storage facilities and produce marketing); Livestock (feed, including the Futter24 platform, and digital solutions for cattle, pigs, and poultry); Energy (heating fuels, motor fuels, lubricants); Digital Products (myfarmvis farmer portal, IQ-Plant crop information app, ATC Trader platform, AGRAVIS Technik Parts ordering site); and Raiffeisen-Märkte consumer retail (home, garden, animals, leisure, equestrian). Adjacent lines include agricultural services (custom fertilizer mixing, seed drill rental, Agrarexpress consulting), organic farming solutions, biogas consulting, and building materials absorbed from the Kornhaus Westfalen-Süd legacy entity.

Revenue is generated through one-time transactional sales of agricultural inputs and commodities, professional service fees for agronomic and operational support, and retail margin from Raiffeisen-Märkte stores. Distribution is omnichannel — direct sales at branch locations, consumer-facing retail, and digital self-service via myfarmvis — supported by a regional network that includes regional headquarters in Ostwestfalen and Nordhessen. The primary customer segments are crop and livestock farmers (operationally) and rural consumers (retail), with a strategic partnership with Syngenta for the Mais-Forum (Corn Forum) precision dry-matter analysis service extending the agronomic advisory offering.

Name

AGRAVIS Westfalen

Legal name

AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen GmbH

Website

https://agravis-westfalen-sued.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen GmbH is a German regional agricultural trading company serving farmers across Ostwestfalen and Nordhessen with seeds, fertilizers, livestock feed, energy, produce marketing, digital farm management tools, and consumer retail via Raiffeisen-Märkte.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Trading & Farm Inputs Supply

NAICS

Farm Product Warehousing and Storage (493130)

SIC

Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)

akta.pro primary industry

Farmer Cooperatives & Co-op Retail (AFABAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Grain Handling & Farmgate Services (Retailer/Co-op Adjacent) (AFABAJAN)

Keywords

• Agricultural trading
• Farm inputs supply
• Livestock feed
• Crop protection products
• Rural retail

Headquarters

HQ city

Ostwestfalen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Agricultural Inputs & Trading: Sale of agricultural operating materials including seeds, fertilizers, crop protection products, animal feed, and fuels/lubricants. Purchase and marketing of harvested agricultural products.
2. Agricultural Services: Custom fertilizer mixing, seed drill rental, qualified consulting through Agrarexpress, and biogas plant support.
3. Retail (Raiffeisen-Märkte): Consumer-facing retail stores offering products for home, animals, garden, leisure, and equestrian sports.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen GmbH is a regional agricultural trading company serving farms across the Ruhr-Lippe, Sieger- and Sauerland, Ostwestfalen and Nordhessen regions. It supplies agricultural operating materials (seeds, fertilizers, crop protection, compound feed, fuels and lubricants) and offers livestock, organic farming, energy, biogas consulting, building materials and digital farming solutions. It also purchases, stores and markets harvested crops and operates Raiffeisen-Märkte retail stores offering garden, pet and household products to rural consumers.

Product overview

AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen GmbH is a regional agricultural trading company serving the Ruhr-Lippe, Siegerland, Sauerland, Ostwestfalen, and Nordhessen regions. The company operates a diversified portfolio of products and services organized around six core areas: Plant Production (Pflanzenbau) covering seeds and fertilizers; Agricultural Products (Agrarerzeugnisse) for harvest acceptance and marketing; Efficient Livestock (Effiziente Tierhaltung) with feed and digital solutions; Energy providing fuels and lubricants; Raiffeisen-Märkte retail stores; and Digital Products including the myfarmvis farm portal, IQ-Plant crop app, and Futter24 feed platform. The company also offers agricultural services (custom fertilizer mixing, equipment rental, consulting), organic farming solutions, biogas consulting, and building materials. Formed through mergers culminating in 2025, the company employs over 220 staff across 10 locations and positions itself as a digitization driver for regional agriculture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SyngentacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation with Syngenta for the Mais-Forum (Corn Forum), offering precision dry matter (TS) determination of corn. Farmers' corn samples are analyzed on-site with immediate results to optimize harvest planning and decision-making.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• BayWa AG: One of Germany's largest agricultural trading and services groups, operating wholesale farm inputs, grain marketing, agricultural machinery retail, energy, and digital solutions across the country. Directly comparable in business mix to AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen but at substantially greater national scale and with broader diversification.
• AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG: The parent cooperative of AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen and one of Germany's largest agricultural trading groups, operating across multiple regional subsidiaries with full ag trading, retail, energy and digital portfolios. Most direct parent and structural analog, but at a much larger national scale.
• Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Germany: Global agribusiness company active in grain origination, oilseed processing, animal nutrition and farm services in Germany. Overlaps with AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen in grain procurement, feed marketing and farmer-facing services; brings global scale and may pressure commodity margins.
• Cargill Germany: Global agricultural commodities giant operating grain origination, oilseed processing and farm input distribution in Germany. Competes with AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen on grain procurement, oilseed marketing and farmer-input distribution, but at vastly greater scale and with global sourcing power.

Direct peers

• ATR Landhandel GmbH: Regional German agricultural trading and logistics company specializing in grain, oilseed and feedstuff marketing, with farm input supply and advisory services. Direct comparable in scale and core activity (regional farm input distribution and crop marketing) to AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen's wholesale and grain-handling lines.
• HaGe Nord (Hauptgenossenschaft Nord AG): Northern German cooperative agricultural trading company providing farm inputs, grain and oilseed marketing, animal feed, fuels, and retail across Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony. Strong direct peer given shared cooperative structure, similar full-service ag portfolio and comparable regional-trader business model.
• RWZ Rhein-Main eG: German cooperative agricultural trading company serving the Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse regions with farm inputs, grain marketing, energy, retail and agricultural services. Closest comparable regional Raiffeisen-style ag trader to AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen, with overlapping product lines, cooperative heritage and customer base.
• Bohnhorst Agrarhandel GmbH: Smaller-scale regional agricultural trader and grain marketer in northern Germany providing farm inputs, produce marketing and advisory services. Comparable in business model (regional ag trading with farmer services) but operating at smaller scale in a different German region.

Emerging players

• 365FarmNet GmbH: Independent agritech platform offering farm management software, input ordering and digital advisory to European farmers. Directly comparable to AGRAVIS Westfalen-Hessen's myfarmvis and IQ-Plant offerings as a competing farmer-facing digital ecosystem, with potential to displace traditional ag traders' digital tools.

Regional players

• Raiffeisen Waren GmbH: Cooperative agricultural trading company operating across several German regions with farm inputs, grain marketing, energy and retail offerings. Operates in adjacent/cooperative-aligned German regions with comparable business model but different geographic footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/agravis.westfalen.hessen.gmbh
• Instagraminstagram.com/agravis_westfalen_hessen
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agravis-westfalen

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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