Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production. It includes agrichemicals, breeding, crop production (farming and contract farming), distribution, farm machinery, processing, and seed supply, as well as marketing and retail sales. The discipline of agribusiness is changing to market centric. All agents of the food and fiber value chain and those institutions that influence it are part of agribusiness system.
Examples of agribusinesses include seed and agrichemical producers, animal feeds, biofuels, and micro-ingredients, grain transport and processing.