Bulk Orders Offer Many Benefits

As with any purchase, buying crop protection products in bulk has its benefits. Syngenta offers a bulk program for retailers who purchase early. With nonbulk orders, packaged products are sent to distributors, who then send them to retailers. With bulk orders, Syngenta delivers product directly to retailers, who keep tanks on location for storage.


“The retailers can get the product in one shipment or multiple shipments,” explains Stephanie Neese, national bulk equipment specialist for Syngenta. “They’re not dealing with bottles or smaller packages, so there’s less to recycle. All around it makes things simpler.”

Both retailers and growers benefit from the lower price and convenience of a bulk order.

“The bulk tanks allow us to hold a lot of our in-season needs ahead of time, which keeps our supply ahead of demand,” says Brent Deppe, agronomy department manager with Key Cooperative in Grinnell, Iowa. “But for the products we’ll need to ship in-season, my Syngenta rep and I can plan ahead and have those orders set up and ready to place.”

Each season, retailers like Deppe count on Syngenta to make sure they have product in stock before a grower needs it—and at the best value they can offer. Deppe understands that in uncertain times, every benefit he can provide to his customers can help them receive a better return on their product investment.

“The bulk tanks allow us to hold a lot of our in-season needs ahead of time, which keeps our supply ahead of demand.”

“I think it’s twofold. Some of the pricing incentives that we can pass on by ordering early helps,” says Deppe, whose cooperative has expanded its bulk storage to 20 tanks across 10 locations. “And having a constant and reliable supply source for our growers is critical in our business. Syngenta is really helping us meet the current and future needs of those growers.”