Jolanda Wijsmuller Winning Hearts with Serenade What better way to validate the performance of Bayer’s Serenade® ASO biological fungicide – a living organism derived from nature, contributing to better soil as well as root and plant health – than by working with our food chain partners to implement a project involving Serenade in the Netherlands, utilizing digital farming methods to collect and analyze the results?
Dr. Jacqueline M. Applegate Uniting to Serve Our Local Communities Bayer team members from Environmental Science spent the day volunteering in communities around the world to embrace their role as Ambassadors of Better Life.
Aaron Cano Making a difference one smallholder farmer at a time Aaron Cano aims to be a one-stop shop where farmers are part of a global partnership that helps them increase their productivity and improve their livelihoods.
Márcio Milan Tracking food from the farm to the supermarket Currently, 56 retailers and about 32 thousand farmers participate in the RAMA program in the country.
Malu Nachreiner Agriculture Four-Dot What?! Resources like drones, remote sensing, precision agriculture and Big Data are increasingly present in farming management. New possibilities arise and, to take advantage of all the technology’ potential on the field, a new professional profile is emerging: more open and connected to digital tools.
Brett Begemann Five Skills Every Student & Young Professional Needs for Career Success Brett Begemann discusses his experience being Professor-for-a-Day at Missou, an incredible opportunity to talk with students about modern agriculture, innovation and career success.
Sarah Hovinga “Lettuce” Tell You About a Career in Food Safety Produce safety affects every grower, and even one afflicted person is one too many.
Dr. Bruno Defilippi More Knowledge = Less Waste In Latin America’s countries, most food loss occurs in the stages prior to food getting to the consumers, which is also the case in other developing countries. If we consider, for example fresh horticultural products such as fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers, about 50% is lost before reaching the consumers, according to studies carried out by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Jenny Maloney If Carrots Could Talk Jenny Maloney discusses the importance of teaching children how food is grown and making sure they have access to fresh fruit and vegetables.
Jolanda Wijsmuller Winning Hearts with Serenade What better way to validate the performance of Bayer’s Serenade® ASO biological fungicide – a living organism derived from nature, contributing to better soil as well as root and plant health – than by working with our food chain partners to implement a project involving Serenade in the Netherlands, utilizing digital farming methods to collect and analyze the results?
Aaron Cano Making a difference one smallholder farmer at a time Aaron Cano aims to be a one-stop shop where farmers are part of a global partnership that helps them increase their productivity and improve their livelihoods.
Márcio Milan Tracking food from the farm to the supermarket Currently, 56 retailers and about 32 thousand farmers participate in the RAMA program in the country.
Malu Nachreiner Agriculture Four-Dot What?! Resources like drones, remote sensing, precision agriculture and Big Data are increasingly present in farming management. New possibilities arise and, to take advantage of all the technology’ potential on the field, a new professional profile is emerging: more open and connected to digital tools.
Sarah Hovinga “Lettuce” Tell You About a Career in Food Safety Produce safety affects every grower, and even one afflicted person is one too many.
Dr. Bruno Defilippi More Knowledge = Less Waste In Latin America’s countries, most food loss occurs in the stages prior to food getting to the consumers, which is also the case in other developing countries. If we consider, for example fresh horticultural products such as fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers, about 50% is lost before reaching the consumers, according to studies carried out by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Jenny Maloney If Carrots Could Talk Jenny Maloney discusses the importance of teaching children how food is grown and making sure they have access to fresh fruit and vegetables.
Kevin Doughty Students for a Better Tomorrow. The Safe Use Ambassador Program Bayer is running the Safe Use Ambassador Programme to promote best practice through various partnerships. Among our partners are Agricultural Universities, because we believe that today’s students can play a valuable role as ambassadors for safe use.
Ronald Guendel Collaboration is the name of the game when it comes to food security. Smallholder farms use 12 percent of the world's agricultural land, and yet are depended upon to produce 80 percent of the food that is consumed in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. That’s why the productivity and quality of their harvest is so critical to the food security of many families and communities.
Márcio Milan Tracking food from the farm to the supermarket Currently, 56 retailers and about 32 thousand farmers participate in the RAMA program in the country.
Brett Begemann Five Skills Every Student & Young Professional Needs for Career Success Brett Begemann discusses his experience being Professor-for-a-Day at Missou, an incredible opportunity to talk with students about modern agriculture, innovation and career success.
Griselda Mendoza Small Farmers, Great Contributions According to the United Nations, in many parts of the world, 60-80% of the food is produced thanks to the work of women. Rural environments, as well as the composition of the company teams who work in the field, are more diverse, they include men and women from different parts of the world, with different sets of knowledge.
Jenny Maloney Top 10 Food Trends of 2019 Food trends can be tricky often suggesting that they give a “health halo” but every individual is different and working with an expert in the field about dietary trends for individual needs is important piece when making changes to diet.
Mark Young A Night of Networking and How it Fits into the Future of Agriculture Bayer has been delivering science for a better life for more than 150 years. Any organization with that type of longevity and success tends to focus on the things it does extremely well. For Bayer, agriculture is one of them.
Diana Gitonga and Chuenjit Meeposom Women Smallholder Farmers Rising to the Challenge: Firsthand Perspectives from Kenya and Thailand Empowering women smallholder farmers could be the solution to ending world hunger. Here’s why and how.
Jonathan Hurtado Technology and Professionalization Boost Flowers in Colombia Technology and delicate flowers – how does that fit?
Jeffrey Khoo Let’s Protect Those Who Secure Our Food Insurances for millions of smallholder farmers in Asia: Farmer security as a key topic.
Kai Wirtz Demand Without Supply European growers need the access to innovation and technology to provide us with our everyday fresh fruit and vegetables.
Jolanda Wijsmuller Winning Hearts with Serenade What better way to validate the performance of Bayer’s Serenade® ASO biological fungicide – a living organism derived from nature, contributing to better soil as well as root and plant health – than by working with our food chain partners to implement a project involving Serenade in the Netherlands, utilizing digital farming methods to collect and analyze the results?
Dr. Jacqueline M. Applegate Uniting to Serve Our Local Communities Bayer team members from Environmental Science spent the day volunteering in communities around the world to embrace their role as Ambassadors of Better Life.
Dr. Bruno Defilippi More Knowledge = Less Waste In Latin America’s countries, most food loss occurs in the stages prior to food getting to the consumers, which is also the case in other developing countries. If we consider, for example fresh horticultural products such as fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers, about 50% is lost before reaching the consumers, according to studies carried out by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Jenny Maloney If Carrots Could Talk Jenny Maloney discusses the importance of teaching children how food is grown and making sure they have access to fresh fruit and vegetables.
Kevin Doughty Students for a Better Tomorrow. The Safe Use Ambassador Program Bayer is running the Safe Use Ambassador Programme to promote best practice through various partnerships. Among our partners are Agricultural Universities, because we believe that today’s students can play a valuable role as ambassadors for safe use.
Ronald Guendel Collaboration is the name of the game when it comes to food security. Smallholder farms use 12 percent of the world's agricultural land, and yet are depended upon to produce 80 percent of the food that is consumed in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. That’s why the productivity and quality of their harvest is so critical to the food security of many families and communities.
Marnix Doorn Transforming Honey Bee Health into Meaningful Insights Honey bee health is a complex issue. Many factors can affect the life of honey bees, such as climate, agronomic practices, genetic factors, pests and diseases and so on.
John Combest Flooded Fields: For Farmers, Planning is Key Throughout the year, farmers keep a watchful eye on the sky, regularly monitoring weather reports in anticipation of the many unexpected challenges mother nature may throw at them. As the climate continues to change, farmers around the world have faced catastrophic flooding.
Mike Graham Improving Lives through Better Harvests Series: Seeds of Smallholder Success At Bayer, our goal is to go beyond empowering smallholder farmers to reach their full potential, by also fostering reliable growth for their businesses, their communities, and their livelihoods. All while supporting sustainable solutions for agriculture.
Malu Nachreiner Agriculture Four-Dot What?! Resources like drones, remote sensing, precision agriculture and Big Data are increasingly present in farming management. New possibilities arise and, to take advantage of all the technology’ potential on the field, a new professional profile is emerging: more open and connected to digital tools.
Sarah Hovinga “Lettuce” Tell You About a Career in Food Safety Produce safety affects every grower, and even one afflicted person is one too many.
Sean Shen How digital innovation is de-bugging homes in China China’s fragmented pest control industry focuses mainly on commercial rather than residential clients, but now, Environmental Science -Business Unit of Crop Science Division of Bayer- has developed an innovative solution to improve quality of life at home by helping people say goodbye to pests and live in healthy environments.
Gal Yarden Growing more with less through a paradigm shift It’s just over a year now since we as individual companies found ourselves in a room preparing to embark on a journey. We came together as partners, as an alliance to launch Better Life Farming – and what a journey it has been so far.
John Purcell Thinking About the Future of Food from a Produce Perspective Head of Vegetables R&D, John Purcell, discusses his passion for produce and the future of food.
Larry Gilbertson Let’s Set the Record Straight: GMOs Are Not Created with a Syringe Larry Gilbertson discusses the safety and misinformation surrounding genetically modified crops.
Angela Hendrickson Culler Putting Data to Work to Ensure the Safety and Security of our Food Supply Experts say 90 percent of the data in the world was generated in the last two years alone.
Bob Reiter To Advocate for Science and Agriculture, Empathy First – Then Facts We must find ways to help bridge the gap between consumers concerns about how their food is produced and the innovation farmers need to grow crops successfully, using less resources.
Frank Terhorst A Grain of Hope for Our Future Most of us have an enduring faith in our food production system to ensure we will be on the right side of the supply and demand curve. And while we carry this faith in the future, we should also recognize that there are many challenges that lie ahead of us.
Gal Yarden Growing more with less through a paradigm shift It’s just over a year now since we as individual companies found ourselves in a room preparing to embark on a journey. We came together as partners, as an alliance to launch Better Life Farming – and what a journey it has been so far.
Klaus Kunz We have to find new ways of thinking Biodiversity is the foundation of our existence – in other words the basis of our supply of food, clean water and clean air, and it makes our ecosystems more resilient against climate change.
John Combest Flooded Fields: For Farmers, Planning is Key Throughout the year, farmers keep a watchful eye on the sky, regularly monitoring weather reports in anticipation of the many unexpected challenges mother nature may throw at them. As the climate continues to change, farmers around the world have faced catastrophic flooding.
Joris Roskam and Albert Schirring The Precision Agriculture Revolution is Here...See it in Action! Technology is empowering a new generation of sustainable farmers, including a pioneer potato farmer in the Netherlands.
Manuel Otero Bioeconomy: A Global Need, An Opportunity for the Americas What started as a strategy to optimise our use of the latest knowledge in the biological sciences, primarily biotechnology, evolved into a broader vision to spur more sustainable development
Kaio Fiorese Soil - The Vibrant, Natural Partner for Successful Farming Brazilian ForwardFarmer Kaio Fiorese discusses why preserving soil health is essential to preserving our future.
Marc Sneyders A Sustainable Reality in a Virtual World Independent farm and ForwardFarming partner Hof ten Bosch invites users around the world to virtually tour their sustainable farm.
Klaus Kirsch Building Strong Partnerships for a Healthy Food Supply Klaus Kirsch (Bayer ForwardFarming) and Stephan Brunner (Bayer Food Chain Partnership) discuss the benefits of strong partnerships along the value chain.
Brian Lutz Transforming Field Data Into Meaningful Insights Farmers make an average of 40 decisions each year that impact harvest potential and business returns. Digital tools like FieldView™ Plus brings increased precision to crop production.
