Smart farming practices are accelerating innovation in agriculture as we all move towards a more sustainable future.
Regardless of farm size, farmers need to grow healthier, more productive plants. They face increasing pressures from climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, and from consumers’ changing tastes in food and concerns about how it is produced.
We work with growers to get more out of their crops while keeping workers safe and farms profitable.
Farming must be financially rewarding or farmers will leave the land. We also help to open up markets and make sure farmers get a fair price and a reasonable profit.
We’ve committed to invest $2 billion over five years from 2024 in innovation specifically targeted at delivering a step change in agricultural sustainability
Our research and development leads the agricultural industry: we spend around US$1.3bn a year on R&D and regularly bring new products to market, even though this can take up to 13 years.