Gowan Company is a family-owned agricultural solutions business founded in 1962 by Jon Jessen as a local crop consultancy in the Desert Southwest. It develops, markets, and processes crop protection products, seeds, and fertilizers for growers worldwide, with particular attention to winter vegetables, specialty and niche crops, and the pest and plant health problems that affect them. The company is headquartered in Yuma, Arizona.
More than 60 years on, Gowan operates through over 27 legal entities across 15 countries. Its product portfolio spans fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, biological and organic crop inputs, seeds, and fertilizers. Technical work covers crop protection, agricultural chemistry, biologicals, seed technology, fertilizer processing, and pest and plant health science.
The company describes itself as science-driven, with a stated focus on solving critical pest and plant health issues and on food security for a growing global population. Leadership has remained within the founding family: CEO Juli Jessen leads the business her father started. Gowan emphasizes long-standing relationships of trust with growers and targeted solutions for crops that larger suppliers often overlook.
