FMC

Fmc Corporation

A global agricultural sciences company that develops and sells insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and plant health products to farmers through distributors and retailers. Its roots trace to 1883, when inventor John Bean, whose almond orchard was being ruined by scale insects, built a high-pressure spray pump in Los Gatos, California — the start of the Bean Spray Pump Company. That firm's initials later gave the company its name, as FMC once stood for Food Machinery Corporation.