The US pesticide register in numbers
How big the market is, who holds it, and how fast it moves. Counted by Dantive from EPA's own records, active products only, each registration counted once.
Counted in October 2026. A product counts once, however many label versions it has had. Distributor labels are counted separately because they are sold under the distributor's own brand but rest on someone else's registration.
A long tail behind a few large portfolios
The ten largest registrants hold about one in five active products. The 37 companies with 100 or more products hold about 42% between them. At the other end, roughly three in four registrants hold five products or fewer.
That long tail is where much of the movement comes from: new entrants, specialists and generic suppliers registering products that compete with the established portfolios.
Largest registrants by active products
| Syngenta Crop Protection | 563 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Biorational (MGK) | 433 | |
| Environmental Science U.S. | 421 | |
| UPL NA | 415 | |
| Atticus | 374 | |
| Control Solutions | 367 | |
| Corteva Agriscience | 358 | |
| Loveland Products | 356 | |
| PBI/Gordon | 336 | |
| Drexel Chemical | 315 |
Counted per registrant company number. Groups that register under several company numbers appear under each one separately.
What the market is made of
Active products by main category. Herbicides and insecticides make up more than half of the register. Antimicrobials have the most registrants of any category, many of them small companies with a handful of products each, and they account for nearly half of all active distributor labels.
| Category | Products | |
|---|---|---|
| Herbicides | 5,790 | |
| Insecticides | 5,290 | |
| Fungicides | 2,650 | |
| Antimicrobials | 2,570 | |
| Biopesticides | 650 | |
| Repellents | 310 | |
| Rodenticides | 290 |
| Category | Registrants | |
|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobials | 659 | |
| Insecticides | 531 | |
| Fungicides | 407 | |
| Herbicides | 386 | |
| Biopesticides | 204 | |
| Repellents | 121 | |
| Rodenticides | 43 |
Primary registrations only, rounded to the nearest ten. About 2,600 further products fall outside these categories or are not yet classified.
How fast it moves
Three things change the competitive picture every year: new products, distributor labels and changes of owner. All three picked up again in 2025.
New products
| 2021 | 731 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 657 | |
| 2023 | 598 | |
| 2024 | 453 | |
| 2025 | 881 | |
| 2026 | 784 |
Still-active products by year of their first label.
New distributor labels
| 2021 | 945 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 819 | |
| 2023 | 870 | |
| 2024 | 751 | |
| 2025 | 960 | |
| 2026 | 717 |
Distributor labels registered each year.
Changes of owner
| 2021 | 435 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 304 | |
| 2023 | 99 | |
| 2024 | 80 | |
| 2025 | 394 | |
| 2026 | 464 |
Registrations transferred between companies.
2026 runs to 22 October and is shown hatched. Changes of owner include internal reorganisations within the same group.
Hazard and restrictions
Most active products carry the mildest signal word, Caution. Roughly a quarter carry Danger, many of them antimicrobials and concentrates. Fewer than one in twenty are restricted-use products that only certified applicators may buy and use.
| Caution | 62% | |
|---|---|---|
| Danger | 23% | |
| Warning | 12% | |
| Restricted use | 5% |
By segment
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