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The perfect tomato. How does it look like for you?

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Video: igital Tools: Connecting Smallholder Farmers with Smart, Sustainable Solutions

Digital Tools: Connecting Smallholder Farmers with Smart, Sustainable Solutions

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Video: Women Smallholder Farmers: Key to Feeding our Growing Population

Women Smallholder Farmers: Key to Feeding our Growing Population

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Experts Share Perspectives on Sustainable Farming in South America

Experts Share Perspectives on Sustainable Farming in South America

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Video: Sustainable Agriculture Practices at Harborview Farms – ForwardFarming

Sustainable Agriculture Practices at Harborview Farms – ForwardFarming

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IoF 2020 Partner Perspectives Video Thumbnail

IoF 2020 Partner Perspectives

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Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Africa

Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Africa

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How to Empower Smallholder Farmers

How to Empower Smallholder Farmers: The Smallholder Effect

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Indian Smallholder Farmer Pappu Singh Shares His Story

Indian Smallholder Farmer Pappu Singh Shares His Story

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Smallholder Farmers in Africa, India and the Philippines

Smallholder Farmers in Africa, India and the Philippines Share Challenges

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The Apple Way of Life

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Apple Recipe

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Video: Detective Goodnose - The Tomato Success Story

Detective Goodnose – The Tomato Success Story

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The Benefits of Seeing Sustainable Farming in Practice

The Benefits of Seeing Sustainable Farming in Practice

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Chocolate or tomatoes? What would you choose?

1:48 min

What is your favorite tomato recipe?

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The perfect tomato. How does it look like for you?

1:45 min

The Tomato Song

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Tomatoes – more than just red berries

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Video: Bee Safety of Neonicotinoids

Ensuring Bee Safety in Sunflower Fields

1:28 min

CropWorld 2016

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Why do bloggers have so much influence? Interview with blogger Katie Pinke

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Australian vegetable farmers speak about Economy of Scale

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Visiting the Rugby Farm, Queensland, Australia

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Visiting the Koala Farm in Gatton, Queensland, Australia

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Visiting the Gazzola Farm, Victoria, Australia

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Nihat Yildirim explains how roundworms damage his plants

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Portrait of the Merced Farm in New South Wales, Australia

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Kate Davidson discusses her fascination with working in agriculture

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Bayer ForwardFarming – Demonstrating Sustainable Agriculture in Practice

Bayer ForwardFarming – Demonstrating Sustainable Agriculture in Practice

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Biodiversity on Bayer ForwardFarm Azienda Agricola Moranda

Biodiversity on Bayer ForwardFarm Azienda Agricola Moranda

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Bayer ForwardFarming with the Capurso Family – Generations of Growth

Bayer ForwardFarming with the Capurso Family – Generations of Growth

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Bee Care and Biodiversity Best Practices on Bayer ForwardFarms

Bee Care and Biodiversity Best Practices on Bayer ForwardFarms

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Digital Farming – Understanding IoT in the context of IoF on a Bayer ForwardFarm

Digital Farming – Understanding IoT in the context of IoF on a Bayer ForwardFarm

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Our Food Chain Partnership with METRO

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Bayer Forward Farming

BayerForward Farming – Welcome to Azienda Agricola Moranda

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One Day at Het Groene Hart

One Day at Het Groene Hart ForwardFarm

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Fostering Sustainable Agriculture

Fostering Sustainable Agriculture at Het Groene Hart ForwardFarm

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Passion for Farming

The Passion for Farming

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Fostering Sustainable Agriculture

Technology Supports Sustainable Farming

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One Day at Het Groene Hart

One Day at Het Groene Hart ForwardFarm

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How does the Phytobac System work

How does the Phytobac System work?

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Bayer ForwardFarming Interview: Marc Sneyders

Bayer ForwardFarming Interview: Marc Sneyders

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Bayer ForwardFarming Interview: Dirk Baets

Bayer ForwardFarming Interview: Dirk Baets

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The winner of YouFarm video contest - A modern family farm

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YouFarm 2015 - Best Of

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How healing harvest relieves pain

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Bayer SeedGrowth in the United Kingdom

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Bayer SeedGrowth Coatings: A guided tour

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The historic restoration of Pinehurst No. 2

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Visiting the farm Ribeiro do Ceu, V-Agro

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Talk with Regis Santo De Souza, Agrodinamica

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The Cotton Conference Bremen 2014

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New method for growing rice

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The plant breeders' toolkit

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A day at a potato farm

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Chilli Peppers – Spicing Things Up

4:42 min

Bayer Researches New Varieties of Wheat

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Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is a diverse range of crops and terrains - as are the farmers producing these crops.

Supporting Sub-Saharan Africa’s Farmers

Closing the Gap

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African child

Support for Smallholders in Africa

Better Harvests and More Income by Text Messaging

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reduced tillage and no-till

Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming

Farming’s Strategic Cover

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Beer specialist: Matthias Ebner is an alumnus of TUM Weihenstephan’s brewing and beverage technology study program and is also part of the team that manages the degree program.

Beer – Hopping to It

A Drink with Distinctive Taste

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Uncropped areas

Making Arable Land More Resilient: Emphasis Soil

Integrating Crop Production and Biodiversity

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Pappu Singh grows green chilli on almost two hectares of land.

Smallholder Farming in India

Small Farms, Big Improvements

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Ajay Singh also grows green chilli in Uttar Pradesh.

Smallholder Farming in India

Doubling the yield

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Hans Heinrich Ruser

Farming in Paraguay

A Technology-Savvy Next Generation

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The Lovera family

Farming in Paraguay

Triple Alliance

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Multi generation family eating in the garden

More Transparency in Crop Protection

Building Trust in Science

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On top of and underneath the leaves, roundish spots appear, which become irregular; the spots are brown-gray in color and velvety in texture. The leaves die prematurely, and the trees lose their foliage in summer. If there is very heavy infestation, at harvest time the apple skin will be defaced with large, corking cracks and numerous large, black spots (early scabbing), or the fruit has small brown to black spots, which are sometimes sharp but often also just lightly noticeable (late scabbing).

Producing a Beloved Fruit

Growing Great Apples

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Bayer researchers remove the stamens of a tomato flower to prevent self-pollination.

Food Trends

Healthy Snacks on the Go

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Dr. José Refugio García Quintero (left) advises the Agrícola El Porvenir farm run by Daniel Cárdenas Cevallos Jr.. Daniel Cevallos seeks regular advice from experts regarding the maintenance of his drip irrigation system.

Efficient Water Management in Agriculture

Maximizing the Crop per Drop

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In laboratories of Bayer, scientists develop effective breeding methods for wheat. To achieve this, they perform extremely precise work: For example, the breeders use sterile tweezers to remove stamens from wheat ears. This process ensures that the plants cannot self-pollinate and that they can, therefore, be selective cross-bred.

Efficient Water Management in Agriculture

Drought-tolerant Plant Varieties

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In many of Australia’s farming regions, water is stored in major reservoirs and then delivered to the farms via river systems.

Efficient Water Management in Agriculture

Making Every Drop Count

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Expedito Alves Oliveira is a life-long Arabica farmer.

Global Coffee Farming

Keeping the Fields Alive

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Liam Condon at Future of Farming Dialog 2017

Ag Professionals Exchanging and Learning

Dialogue to Thrive

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Panelists during coffee break

Ag Professionals Exchanging and Learning

Data and tech talk

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The farm of Trevor Syme is situated in a low-rainfall zone with very low soil fertility in Western Australia.

Valuable Ag Practices

Australian Experts for Grain

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A guiding principle of cooperatives around the globe is to create professional and personal connections among their members.

The Concept of Cooperatives

Shoulder to Shoulder for Food Security

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Dilvo Grolli is certain: Knowledge transfer through cooperatives is crucial.

The Concept of Cooperatives

Transferring Knowledge

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Aerial shot: A forest from above

Brazil’s IMPF Program

Looking at the Forests and the Trees

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Plantation trees may begin in nearby nurseries, where varieties such as eucalypts and pines are raised under optimal conditions.

Brazil’s IMPF Program

Doing the Work Right

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The Essential Tomato

From Golden to Bright Red

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The farms of Arci and Adair Boldrin and their family are located in the vicinity of Rio Verde in Goiás. The region is part of the Brazilian savannah or “Cerrado”.

Heart of a Farmer

In Love with Soy

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Attendees including Bayer colleagues, local governmental representatives, journalists, customers and partners spent the afternoon touring the farm

Bernd Naaf and Remy Courbon

Bayer ForwardFarming Expands to Italy

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A range of potatoes like these in local markets are the result of the skills from master farmers like Craig MacFarlane.

Unearthing Underground Crops

Back to the Roots

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Potato harvesting in South Africa.

Unearthing Underground Crops

Potato harvesting in South Africa

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In Changyi County, the Shandong Province of China, ginger farmer Yuhui Ma is happy to see large ginger rhizomes (lower left) emerging from his field.

Unearthing Underground Crops

Jewels at His Feet

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FarmBot is a robotic farming system that individuals can set-up themselves in small areas like home gardens or on rooftops.

High Tech Helpers for Tomorrow’s Agriculture

Precision Farming is the Future

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Honey bee visiting a Phacelia blossom

Pollinator Research and Bee Safety Studies

Bee Species with Different Lifestyles

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Bee Research in Chilean Vineyards

Pollinator Research and Bee Safety Studies

Fly-by Visitors to Chilean Vineyards

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Honey bee safety testing

Pollinator Research and Bee Safety Studies

Testing Safety

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Field studies in sunflower fields

Pollinator Research and Bee Safety Studies

Buzzing Under the Spanish Sun

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Sustainable agricultural practices at Hof ten Bosch include climate stations

Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture

Balancing Productivity and Environment

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Farmer Bernd Olligs’ spray equipment at the washing area of the Damianshof in Rommerskirchen, Germany. You can see the Phytobac containing the farmsoil with straw chaff incorporated.

Sustainable Agriculture in the Field

Innovations for Water and Soil

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Delegates collaborated with colleagues to envision what agriculture can be.

Youth Ag-Summit at Canberra, Australia

‘3 Little Things’ to Make a Difference

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As a scholarship recipient, Anna Zimmermann had extensive, hands-on laboratory research experience.

Jeff Schell Scholarship for Agricultural Science

Supporting the Next Generation

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In the Baylab, young students age 14-19 can have hands-on experiences in science and witness a day in the life of a researcher.

Jeff Schell Scholarship for Agricultural Science

Agriculture Education @ Bayer

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Phan Van Giang from the Mekong Delta counteracts soil salinization with a hybrid rice variety from Bayer for higher yields.

Solutions for Smallholder Rice Farmers

Cultivating White Gold

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Baobab tree in Africa

Nutrition and Food Security

Secret Fruit and Super Food

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Food Trucks – a trend in the U.S., Europe and Asia

Nutrition and Food Security

Food Trends

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Meat export from India

Nutrition and Food Security

In Focus: India

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Tofu: vegan, healthy and tasty

Nutrition and Food Security

Tofu: A Vegan Trend

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Jennifer’s ancestors used horse drawn potato harvesters on their farm in Colorado in the early 1900's”

Jenny Maloney

Changing Times: The New Face of Modern Agriculture

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Robot Bonirob

Adrian Percy

Ag Innovation is Alive and Kicking!

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Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation visiting the ESA stand in the Food Village

Suzanne Barratt

Every Food Chain Starts with the Seed

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Orchard Road in Singapore

From the Cities and into the Skies

The Rise of the Vertical Farm

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Bartlomiej Banasiak (left), his brother and their father Marek (right) grow corn, wheat, canola and triticale on their 130-hectare farm in western Poland.

Next Generation on the Move

Young Farmers are the Future

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Inka-Donata’s work on the farm is diverse and requires a lot of woman-power.

Next Generation on the Move

Passion for Farming

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Inventor and engineer David Dorhout from Des Moines, Iowa.

Automated Agricultural Helpers

Ripe for Robots

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In a lab at the Technische Universität in Munich, the "Crops" Robot can already harvest bell peppers.

Automated Agricultural Helpers

Raising Efficiency

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Prospero, this micro planter from Iowa cultivates fields in a swarm: Its six legs provide the necessary stability for uneven farmland. Prospero checks whether a certain section of the soil has already been planted. It digs holes, places seeds, marks the spot and if required also sprays fertilizer or herbicides.

Automated Agricultural Helpers

New Technologies and Traditional Machinery

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Citrus expert: Pedro Luiz Favero

Fresh Oranges, Daily

The Orange Exporter

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Orange Plantation and Harvest

Fresh Oranges, Daily

The Logistics of Fresh Fruit

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Juergen Keppler

Crop Protection Development

A Testing Marathon for Safety

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Stephanie Bellmaine in the lab

Developing New Herbicide Solutions

A Cross-Continental Collaboration

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Development of new herbicides

Developing New Herbicide Solutions

A New Mode of Action

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Anthony and Diane Staatz are the owner of Koala Farm in Gatton – a vegetable region located 90 km west of Queensland’s capital Brisbane, on the Australian East Coast.

Vegetable Farmers in Australia

Moving the Sky

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Continuous Growth: Founded in 1912, Rugby Farm has expanded its business locations substantially.

Vegetable Farmers in Australia

Expanding Continously

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Darren Schreurs and his brothers manage Schreurs Farm.

Vegetable Farmers in Australia

“A Twelve-Months A Year Business”

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Third-generation farmers Paul (picture), Colin and Andrew Gazzola operate a vegetable business in Somerville.

Vegetable Farmers in Australia

Savvy Strategies

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Cotton Calendar

Australian Farmers – American Roots

The Merced Farm Cotton Calendar

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Female Farming in Australia. Female Farming in Australia The Embodiment of ‘Australia’s Lifeblood’: Kate Davidson from New South Wales.

Today’s Women in Agriculture

The Female Force of Farming

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Collecting Data Throughout the Season

Digital Farming

Remote Sensing

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Crop experts Augusto Monteiro, Agronomist at Bayer CropScience (left), and Ricardo Campanelli from the Campanelli Agriculture Group checking plants in a sugar cane field.

Sweetening the Future

Crystals of Delight

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Sugar beet harvest in Europe takes place from September to December.

Sweetening the Future

Cultivating Cane

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Stephen Schiller

Agriculture in Australia

Australia’s Lifeblood

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Robert Dugdale, General Manager of Cotton Growers Services, Australia

Agriculture in Australia

Profitable Reds

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In Australia’s cotton regions, water is stored in major reservoirs and is then delivered to cotton farms via river systems.

Australian Farmers – American Roots

Neverending Success Story

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Helicoverpa, the species also known as the ‘cotton bollworm’ is one of the most polyphagous and widespread species.

Experts in Pest Control

Coping with Caterpillars

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Agricultural engineer Rodolfo Solis examines banana plant roots for infestation at the Central American Experimental Ag Station in Costa Rica.

BioAct: Biological Plant Protection for Fruit and Vegetable Crops

Fungus versus Worm

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A lot of farmers use a GPS (Global Positioning System) for every possible stage, whether sowing, applying crop protection products, or harvesting.

Diversity of Roles

Innovators: Farmers go high tech

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Farmers are employers of a lot of skilled personnel.

Diversity of Roles

Entrepreneurs: Farmers strengthen the economy

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Bees pollinate our fruits, nuts and vegetables, yet they themselves often struggle to find food.

Diversity of Roles

One Profession, Many Facets

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These simple dwellings, which require very little work to build, are wonderful decorations that will support beneficial insects in your garden.

Diversity of Roles

Sustainability Experts: Farmers preserve the environment

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Grapes

Ensuring Food Safety and Quality

Indian Table Grapes

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At the beginning of the harvesting season, all rows are filled with rich, green vegetables. Fresh Select cultivates a total of 3,000 hectares of agricultural land. With the careful management, the farmers counterbalance efficiency and environmental safety.

Ensuring Food Safety and Quality

Sustainability Radar

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Oranges

Ensuring Food Safety and Quality

Spanish Citrus

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One of Bayer CropScience’s main research stations is in Rio Verde, Goiás

Agriculture in Brazil

Champions of Soy

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The company AMAGGI uses tablet devices to monitor crops. Ricardo Moreira, production control manager at the Tucunaré Farm, developed the software.

Agriculture in Brazil

State of Soy

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During harvest season, trucks roll in and out of the storage and administration area to unload the harvested soybeans.

Agriculture in Brazil

Virtual Farm

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Vinicius Formighieri Lazarini manages a 1,200 hectare family farm in western Paraná.

Agriculture in Brazil

Effective Crop Protection

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Prof. Stephen Powles leads the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative at the University of Western Australia.

Fighting Global Weed Resistance

Breaking the Cycle

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Integrated Solutions for Vegetable Crops

Innovations for Diversity

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Integrated Solutions for Vegetable Crops

High Quality Seeds

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Integrated Solutions for Vegetable Crops

Expert Think Tank

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Female Farming in Canada. Canadian farmer Elaine Bellamy manages giants: “Growing up, my father taught me the value of the soil, the land.”

Today’s Women in Agriculture

Passion for Farming

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Female farmers are key players in world agriculture; however, many of them don’t have the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Today’s Women in Agriculture

Education is Key

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Female Farming in South Africa. South African farming spirit: Karin Cluver from Grabouw operates a winery with her family.

Today’s Women in Agriculture

Open Minds Succeed

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The Food Chain Partnership project in Guatemala was jointly initiated by Bayer and vegetable exporter SIESA. Worker Rolando Machan (right) takes pride in working in the field.

Ensuring Food Safety and Quality

Guatemalan Vegetables

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Tomatoes for the Global Market

A Fruity Success Story

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Tomatoes for the Global Market

Improved Quality

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A total of 55,000 hectares of land are used for potato growing in Chile.

The Potato: A Versatile Crop for the Pots of the World

The Global Tuber

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Barry Landman, Hertzoch Landman, Christie Landman, Emile O'Connell, EC Landman manage the citrus farm in northern South Africa.

Citrus Cultivation as a Family Tradition

Simply Tasty

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