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- Elders Limited (ASX:ELD) is an Australia-based agribusiness company providing a comprehensive range of products and services to primary producers, farmers, and rural customers across the country. The company offers rural products including seeds, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, animal health products, crop protection, nutrition, and general rural merchandise; livestock and wool agency services, feedlotting of cattle, storage and handling of wool; real estate sales and property management for rural, residential, and commercial properties through over 300 offices; financial services encompassing commercial livestock finance, stud stock funding, equipment loans, home loans, term deposits, and agribusiness banking; insurance brokerage for farm, business, personal, fleet, and commercial motor coverage; and digital services such as AuctionsPlus for online livestock trading, Clear Grain Exchange, Elders Weather app, and precision agriculture technologies including agronomy, genomics, carbon farming, and Ag Tech advisory. Elders operates through an extensive network of over 300 retail branches nationwide, supplemented by subsidiaries and affiliates like Delta Agribusiness (68 locations offering crop protection, seeds, animal health, fertilizers, fuel, private-label chemicals, and farm advisory), Elders Rural Services, Elders Real Estate, Elders Finance, Elders Insurance, AIRR for collective rural retailing, EPG Seeds, Pastoral Ag for animal health, Titan Ag for chemicals, Turfcare Australia, and regional entities such as B&W Rural, Charles Stewart, and Northern Rural Supplies; it also provides wholesale products to independent rural retailers and professional services via agronomists and livestock advisors. Founded in 1839 and headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia, Elders primarily serves the Australian agricultural sector with a focus on broadacre cropping, horticulture, viticulture, livestock production (beef, dairy, sheep, goats), and wool, targeting primary producers in rural and regional areas across all states and territories. In a major strategic expansion, Elders completed the acquisition of Delta Agribusiness Pty Ltd in November 2025 for an enterprise value of $475 million following ACCC approval in October 2025, integrating Delta's 64-68 stores, 500 staff including 80 agronomists, and capabilities in precision agriculture and farm inputs across New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Queensland while divesting six Western Australia stores to address competition concerns; this light-touch merger enhances Elders' retail footprint to approximately 324 sites, technical services in Ag Tech, and overall support for regional farming communities without altering Delta's operations, branding, or management.