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Operator

Greetings and welcome to the American Vanguard Third Quarter 2020 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] And as a reminder, this conference is being recorded Monday, November 9, 2020. And I'd now like to turn it over to Mr. Bill Kuser, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

William Kuser

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activity, soil are XXXX to rise. addition, products of into have. these and year current any Keith? upon we this balance you our now prospects for for demand Based sales We'll and take continues may by our questions season. trends the encouraged In fumigant the

Operator

Instructions] Capital ROTH the first of line question Partners. The [Operator from is Joseph from Reagor

Joseph Reagor

I lot questions been world longer-term without asking outlook. for all guess be anyway. these just a to it. kind lot thanks question thing, expectation of first When But of I has normal, for know your this number, would ex-COVID impacts return like annualized providing us a a base on the of what like the growth?

Eric Wintemute

So you're talking about business? our core

Joseph Reagor

it Like XXXX what currently might world, business core the Yes. annualized around do the if COVID think impacts you wasn't be? the revenue for

Eric Wintemute

Yes.

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And our so and of lot development customer was remote. product work a

is we've really normalcy does we're idea they've kind since increase will so and overall. been that this restaurants this of indeed and I commodity in particularly for think So of vaccine the work, really the many and crops stabilized, first food and demand more 'XX. of think normalizations more that consumption prices I a the with area also I in I see really And what of although down think the collapsed is seeing cycle uptick that

into So we're I this an we think on as XXXX go year. upswing

Joseph Reagor

then a of and of kind sales like was looking then bit, the what Is as call quarter. It related way or any impact? little And On an you a pricing. quantify of David weather seems you there impact a a there QX guys market that? to do I was ton could that gave backward think you commentary lot would in on what to crop related number,

Eric Wintemute

think looking core. I we looked David, at straight just Well, and at we corn, if just were

cotton. I'm not So - sorry, corn,

just cotton - that for sorry, that think $X second, a the on So - give I million. was quarter was about me

David Johnson

$X million.

Eric Wintemute

just $X.X Okay. X and yes, million. so, million, $X about

kind probably biggest. that's So of the

year The they've of kind stronger - in pre-orders our those so of of the we perishers that cushion through - stronger they placing distributor. lot had been lot other were with quarter. a they This a as main chewing probably Dibrom fourth orders - far for year some last of companies placed

would to we down year Dibrom. of probably lower inventories have this look the end So see and at drawing of inventory

products So contributed probably most. three the that those are the

David Johnson

also I bit were was because related strips mentioned in pest and little these down of restaurants. a and pandemic bars that

Eric Wintemute

All right.

Joseph Reagor

like final QX that was one pick timing outlook seems so much or might then far? of QX revenue too. lost in concept how of and Any is how And demand Okay. up you like brief And for in of thing. reasons a are It kind QX prices whatever? up going then maybe is up

Eric Wintemute

mentioned, QX. snow. timing The you about happen some of have One as just that to there in the as us. We're are fumigant has much business reasons. been variety QX in soil for carryover, is, good strong for We not feel fortunate a Yes. very didn't way

we here corn rootworm. 'XX today. on But a a look bullish So that XXXX then Southern the we've we California although ground lot rootworm pressure little snow-capped has now people hear of of - got increased are more season, course the we treating the as treated, concept think into did mountains of and in did corn got I during

I an we'll corn increase think our see So activity. in

Operator

from The Loop next of Chris Markets. line the Kapsch Capital is from question

Chris Kapsch

of on this season. follow-up impact the One cotton

in in a excess when then weak the for inventories season the what headwind not happens XXXX Belt sort channel. unlike translate Just Corn into will overhang and curious if for have we from - this of an

your they we you product I Is that in that key the inventories headwind couldn't - so apply Southeast next an couldn't - apply year? channel then, guess, that from Given a Texas. to going they in in see to products West - overhang, need apply line are

Eric Wintemute

don't so. think Yes. I

pallet As mentioned truckload - saw where a order a truckload earlier, we being time. get started really think orders placed might a pandemic you at we half the or I during this since

smaller generally as got a So they to level. and saw cash watch lot we we preserve inventories - levels trying everybody of but were their orders

in So that we the don't increase we see occur, that see didn't sales an inventory. channel

We like would inventory a yes, what But have. have we don't then see - I don't more - to we going headwind forward.

Chris Kapsch

you while on then prices. crosscurrents, largely on certainly into and largely but the lot a some quarter ag firmer of fourth commodity And there's expressed XXXX - about optimism

In it in products bit channel is you're demand be about that quarter, really of where materialize on fourth board? more little more is you appreciated. is tied Just pronounced? across a the most just would which the to terms Is to - could that product it that color talk starting or lines corn the

Eric Wintemute

Yes.

any if we're people again just of if up and but I mean, going to it's I next the were - couple that more lines. across today's ag a we the can of But, be sign see we're domestically, resolved - not supply the I board. I some and that to people mean that, itself. - meet to in generally normalized had globally year. board, yes, should - the of is this has We've approach think couple Bromacil the for of if product tightness reaction think, get think if a pushing across just struggling industry demand I I the for back

Chris Kapsch

was X rootworm pressure recently. I corn the contributor drought corn big in possibility absence that, back That that 'XX, comments increasing 'XX XXXX spiked, to more is be of that a when year. there I your citing appreciate the what seemed the guess prices rotation your - that about or crop maybe and

crop now anything generally you between have to pest are that diminished suggesting than contributed that's diminished so to pest protection mean, and protection Is then I good crop? the adhered by practices crop So rotation farmers up protection? there stayed else until basically that's

Eric Wintemute

or mean, conditions weather the I there as advance advance being obviously trade or is Yes. they don't the certainly conducive.

I will up, that last it all year, was estimates probably think acres are corn be season last season this X and pretty strong versus million this season.

the don't think you've color those Bob, to So I you'd like got add know more if that. any I are factors. on

Ulrich Trogele

market ratios soybean market. use and a at look little low. would I XX-year the mean are corn driving stock that I So at a the bit

in tight the soybeans. market So very is

more on was farm coming is this depending China. demand be income out up XXXX, profitable corn year But that may of than big So much is bit little the maybe XXXX. in news a it really

the I of more belt by little community. a the loosening a So see might going spring bit into you the think of farm

going season. I a plus the think that's into

would to there now drought, I bit are that Southern is Brazil then right there and is think which going little a Brazil I - a production capabilities. say their hurt

think the purchases. their with coming are online back I Chinese

we really nicely. and think not things it’s year unless that I next up So hope all the are case, COVID-XX another we shaping have effect,

Eric Wintemute

Yes, additional. I just would

Chris Kapsch

Right.

Eric Wintemute

lines the of down told me things away was U.S. was is up they're this government corn a opening don't out. and they from Brazilian as this demand their The and wiped weeks I the of clean the to because U.S. they of their Brazil one - just them in that ago import meet couple and year yields. the enough from year they expected given shifted so Chinese the really have corn drought

Chris Kapsch

have I probably But also have rootworm corn to we rootworm landscape you then the Interesting, what the last and going intensifying you efficacious and of there - guys robust. what RNAi looks is the less was technology are variants on can But - that and guess, - one soil-applied - competitive is just pressure, corn your see possibility one the vis-à-vis relevant insecticides. what there about liquid talk today just that the sort your that maybe landscape Monsanto maybe looks market? like most if the for in - competition? for like the Can do product in that was approved this fact

Eric Wintemute

this. Yes to for before and too, one Bob over I turn thing just I it

we So, few there. systems the it have quite this did mean, more we'll soil called And prescriptive also, able beta on a but that last we year essentially what system call we'll plus, the to have would SmartBox a year, what's expecting it prescriptively - we level. actually testing be a with get insecticide. which is a XX a out I are apply SmartBox on to into pound corn SIMPAS

in attention field. think that I more So a get prescriptive we'll lot

So want Bob you to but, one? on anyway that comment

Ulrich Trogele

best Yes, pressure. also corn has most the so market. high just solution technical to in AMVAC solution confirm for rootworm I'd said what like the that It's expensive you the

seems increased, last and the The We've marginally more sensitive. two market that. be granular bit to would competitive volume. The the and would we're down liquid. broken is market that in market the really years granular price looking leader more holding and on that So two I say both sectors, market is little a market. I say, in in liquid our price to is share be into

So hope that answers your question.

Chris Kapsch

on And do you RNAi any the know visibility technology? -

Eric Wintemute

to market haven't - was seems any XXXX they it to if clock off a from case turn supposed if So, still way There progress. and XXXX, back we long yes launched the to the that in be seen all. the market, be that think comes to I are the at it I

Operator

There Please [Operator Chris line follow-up a Kapsch. go Instructions] from of ahead. is the

Chris Kapsch

trying on appreciate bigger And if Yes But and and and that sort the piece the the and numbers of also I your profile what might of you it, contribute formulations anticipate? what you alone year and a you five - your think curious factors snapshot launched you - revenues look the sort said year you've - might the like. margin growth of back therefore look do at I of longer-term provide by by million products two, in like? correctly mix provided. anticipate the said, I'm $XX picture, new new closely to I organic just you go you three five. $XXX just that million products, look so understood

of those adoption like looks for kind stick a hockey steep And so pretty products. that

does wondering the core new some So in your some - sales? formulations cannibalize might belief for the yes I'm is reflect of you baked core of provided into that Does piece the the it math that three these of Thank the and sales for X% just that what you. basis buckets? that's that

Eric Wintemute

just five Yes, XXXX. we products launched new so in the were what

year. we the did XXXX. previous I XX target We've XX XXXX and or for think got on several

effect So products it's year. we're launching these that the of each new kind of cumulative

think, it's So XX, it's five based I not would point. than on based at this more on

piece was? your question again other what I'm and with - me can refresh you that's So one

Chris Kapsch

mixed Does your the growth tranche different And expectation that there is then of bucket of reflect the discussed. sort aggregate some that gross this of cannibalization vectors sales? sort the expected from profile you those new What introductions in of from or of margin of products? your three - existing legacy

Eric Wintemute

that we when we this, penetration. think - new did the we're better tried growth don't products products. I core at to of from market we're talking Yes And looking the pull product the anticipating about growth with out cannibalization. We're

I'm So question the was last sorry, what? again

Chris Kapsch

products? on sales as first mix expectation core with that described there gross any in the profile of products of that of margin bucket Sure, the you new the

Eric Wintemute

let's I upper the say I in mean, So margins - our consistent. gone where in are have have from think, our U.S. XXs mid-upper and still margins the stayed pretty

grown, our Our down. international sales, margins brought have overall as they've

as that green mentioned products very we we position biologicals, margins particularly that globe. market our But globally, through distribution. the have they And we've new of As high increase those we acquisitions kind as our or and penetration across that well expanding were area particularly we should margins. see in line the take

Chris Kapsch

to opportunities self-funding company you one, in from that free funding core envision the Okay. portfolio? you Thank just so And that you. growth cash you'll solely able the from sort this completely then one drive what be do last being just of these envision, growth ambitious - flow of - terms

Eric Wintemute

major in of if hundreds require would approach, - anything stands nothing model it now talking millions case. partnership Yes, the certainly in maybe that reflect that's of that that there was but this a certainly as probably arena. we're thing type acquisition, Obviously, sort nothing

Operator

questions queue. other in no are There

Eric Wintemute

guys put we be and input asked give through off asked move doing have for for what I we'll is together will we kind quarterly Okay. and - guess, each model. updates Well, pieces our I different to quarter growth appreciate given a and again of And us as you pull expectations.

sometime you we’ll all March. in and much. early - joining next us you very Thank thank for So be call will

Operator

your today. call thank now the conclude We your will you for can participation you disconnect That for lines. and conference

American Vanguard (AVD) 9 Nov 202020 Q3 Earnings call transcript