One of the most pressing issues at this stage of the development of the russian economy is the search for ways to effectively operate its agricultural sector, which is based on the development of a competitive food market. Among a number of reasons hindering the formation and development of agricultural organizations, the main ones are: the low level of the material and technical support system, the disparity of prices and the lack of healthy competition between different types of economic entities. In these conditions, there is a need to determine the methodology for assessing the competitiveness of agricultural organizations. The purpose of this work is to create a methodological basis for assessing the competitiveness of agricultural organizations. Testing of the methodology for assessing competitiveness was carried out on the example of agricultural organizations in the Ulyanovsk region.