{
  "_comment": "EPA company numbers known to register pesticides primarily for major US row crops (corn, soybeans, wheat) and the broader ag-chem industry. Used by the EPA PPLS scraper as a pre-API filter in _iter_regnos to skip products from non-ag registrants without paying for the per-product API call. Add/remove companies here without changing code. To bypass entirely use --no-registrant-filter.",
  "_verified_on": "2026-05-23",
  "_source": "Each entry's registrant name was verified by querying the EPA PPLS API for the first active product registered under that company number.",
  "_excluded_examples": "Bayer Environmental Science (432) — turf/ornamental; Scotts (538) — consumer lawn & garden; Wellmark/Zoecon (2724) — animal flea/tick; Control Solutions (53883) — structural pest; Cleary (1001) — turf; PBI/Gordon (2217) — mostly turf; Buckman Labs (1448) — industrial water.",
  "companies": [
    {"number": "100",   "name": "Syngenta Crop Protection",        "ppis_count": 1041},
    {"number": "228",   "name": "Nufarm Americas",                 "ppis_count": 587},
    {"number": "241",   "name": "BASF Agricultural Solutions",     "ppis_count": 247},
    {"number": "264",   "name": "Bayer CropScience (Aventis)",     "ppis_count": 660},
    {"number": "279",   "name": "FMC Corporation",                 "ppis_count": 1165},
    {"number": "352",   "name": "Corteva Agriscience (DuPont)",    "ppis_count": 377},
    {"number": "524",   "name": "Bayer CropScience (Monsanto)",    "ppis_count": 339},
    {"number": "829",   "name": "Southern Agricultural Insecticides", "ppis_count": 171},
    {"number": "1381",  "name": "Winfield Solutions",              "ppis_count": 211},
    {"number": "1812",  "name": "Griffin LLC",                     "ppis_count": 242},
    {"number": "2935",  "name": "Wilbur-Ellis",                    "ppis_count": 321},
    {"number": "5481",  "name": "AMVAC Chemical",                  "ppis_count": 525},
    {"number": "5905",  "name": "Helena Agri-Enterprises",         "ppis_count": 566},
    {"number": "7969",  "name": "BASF Agricultural Solutions",     "ppis_count": 347},
    {"number": "8033",  "name": "Nippon Soda",                     "ppis_count": 75},
    {"number": "9779",  "name": "Winfield Solutions",              "ppis_count": 260},
    {"number": "10182", "name": "Syngenta Crop Protection",        "ppis_count": 142},
    {"number": "19713", "name": "Drexel Chemical",                 "ppis_count": 498},
    {"number": "33270", "name": "Winfield Solutions",              "ppis_count": 22},
    {"number": "34704", "name": "Loveland Products",               "ppis_count": 1027},
    {"number": "42750", "name": "Albaugh",                         "ppis_count": 260},
    {"number": "51036", "name": "BASF Agricultural Solutions",     "ppis_count": 166},
    {"number": "55146", "name": "Nufarm Americas",                 "ppis_count": 147},
    {"number": "62719", "name": "Corteva Agriscience (Dow)",       "ppis_count": 547},
    {"number": "66222", "name": "Makhteshim Agan / ADAMA",         "ppis_count": 192},
    {"number": "67760", "name": "Cheminova",                       "ppis_count": 36},
    {"number": "70506", "name": "UPL NA",                          "ppis_count": 444},
    {"number": "71368", "name": "Nufarm",                          "ppis_count": 132},
    {"number": "71512", "name": "ISK Biosciences",                 "ppis_count": 46},
    {"number": "71711", "name": "Nichino America",                 "ppis_count": 65},
    {"number": "84229", "name": "Tide International USA",          "ppis_count": 47},
    {"number": "87290", "name": "Generic Crop Science",            "ppis_count": 63},
    {"number": "89167", "name": "Axion Ag Products",               "ppis_count": 119},
    {"number": "91234", "name": "Atticus",                         "ppis_count": 338}
  ]
}