Advances in Agriculture

Bayer Crop Science is the undisputed leader of plant biotechnology. Over the last 27 years we have launched more than 65 biotech traits – more than any other company – enabling farmers to grow crops like corn, soybeans, cotton, and canola with game-changing capabilities on around 300 million acres annually.​

Bayer Crop Science is a leader in global crop protection, a position we have earned by innovating new options that help growers address pest, disease, and weed challenges, and by driving our leading crop protection portfolio to sales of more than 13 billion euros in 2022.​ Our CropKey and open innovation approaches to investing in the accelerated development of targeted crop protection products will continue to broaden access to these necessary tools.

Not long-ago biological options were thought of only as microbials, but the reality is that the biologicals industry is expanding rapidly in many different directions. This includes new kinds of nature-derived biocontrol and biostimulant solutions like pheromone products, botanicals and plant extracts, and even synthetic biology.​ Biologicals offer paths to new solutions, such as using synthetic biology to bring nitrogen fixing microbes to corn, wheat, or rice – food security crops that do not currently fix nitrogen from the air, but one day could.

Digital tools and data have been transforming agriculture decades. The early promise of analytics and software tools in labs and greenhouses helped us to find genetic markers hidden among millions of bytes of data. Then new and effective digital tools moved on farm with FieldView, and we developed new ways for growers to make decisions about their farm armed with data far beyond what the eye can see.​