Agrifirm

About Agrifirm

Agrifirm is a Dutch agricultural cooperative serving farmers and growers across livestock and crop sectors. It combines purchasing power, specialist advice, and practical support to help members improve farm performance, manage risk, and build more resilient businesses.

The company positions itself as a partner for better results on the farm, with a strong focus on nutrition, crop production, management, and business development. Its website emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and knowledge-sharing as the way to improve both profitability and long-term sustainability.

Agrifirm also presents itself as a cooperative with deep member roots: it says it has nearly 8,000 affiliated Dutch farmers and growers, and that the Royal Agrifirm Group includes international businesses with more than 10,000 members and 3,000 employees.

Core Values

• Collaboration: Agrifirm repeatedly frames its work around “better together,” emphasizing that farmers, specialists, and partners achieve more by working as one team.
• Innovation: The company invests in research, trials, and practical testing to turn new insights into better farm performance and more future-ready agriculture.
• Sustainability: Agrifirm links its products and sourcing approach to lower environmental impact, responsible sourcing, and more sustainable production systems.
• Member value: As a cooperative, Agrifirm stresses member benefit through purchasing power, knowledge sharing, and financial returns such as member dividends.

Unique Aspects

• Cooperative ownership: Agrifirm is a royal cooperative with nearly 8,000 Dutch farmer and grower members, and it says profits are returned to members as dividend.
• Research infrastructure: The company uses its own research and trial facilities, including Laverdonk and other demo and test fields, to validate products and translate findings into practice.
• Responsible sourcing program: Agrifirm has a Responsible Procurement Approach that it expanded globally in 2022, including work on guaranteed deforestation-free soy and a Fit4Feed protocol.
• Named partnerships and projects: The company publicly cites collaborations with Royal FrieslandCampina on deforestation-free soy, with Wageningen UR on research, and with partners such as MS Schippers, Hardeman Egg Group, and dsm-firmenich on sector initiatives.
• Recent financial turnaround: News reports say Agrifirm returned to profit in 2025, with net profit of €10.3 million on just over €2 billion in revenue, after two loss-making years.