7.1.11.2Vertical
Cotton & Fiber Crop Farming
Commercial cotton producers in the southern and western US.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Row Crops & Grain Farming (7.1.11), the segment that Cotton & Fiber Crop Farming sits within — not Cotton & Fiber Crop Farming on its own.
FragmentationFragmentedEstimate
Crop production (NAICS 111) is covered by the USDA Census of Agriculture, not the Economic Census, so it is not sized here; U.S. crop cash receipts run on the order of ~$250B+ annually.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Crop sales (food, feed, ethanol, and export)
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- Low
- EBITDA margin
- Cyclical with crop prices and input costs
- Capex intensity
- High
annual, price- and weather-dependent harvests
Characteristics
- Largest category of U.S. agricultural production.
- Foundation of grain, feed, food, and biofuel chains.
- Precision ag, farmland consolidation, and investment trends.
M&A deal context
Deal activityModerate
Who’s acquiring
- Farmland investors & operators
- Consolidating commercial farms
- Vertically-integrating agribusinesses
What’s driving deals
- Farmland consolidation and investment.
- Precision-agriculture adoption.
- Crop-price and input-cost cycles.
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