In December 2015, Dow and DuPont set off the greatest wave of consolidation ever seen in the agricultural chemistry and agricultural biology sector. Two years later, the two have become DowDuPont – the largest chemical company in the world. But in between, the entire ag-chem-bio industry has been mired in uncertainty with a focus on demonstrating synergy, at the expense of innovation.

ChemChina was next into the fray in February 2016, announcing it was acquiring Syngenta. The transaction…