Climate

This week we hosted international media at our Chicago office. The event included a panel discussion with three farmers, and all of them use Climate FieldView. When asked about the technology, one simply said "We don't farm without FieldView." That's an incredible endorsement, but our customers also made it clear that Bayer | Crop Science needs to continue advancing new technologies for their farms. One that I'm personally excited about is is FieldView Drive 2.0, which was fittingly showcased right there in the lab where it was developed. It's our first hardware launch in 8 years, and we'll begin selling it in the U.S. this summer during Farm Progress Show. For those of you unfamiliar with the technology, it allows farmers to connect their data from different brands of planters, sprayers and combines, and bring that data onto a single platform, Climate FieldView. It's also our first piece of hardware that allows farmers to *send* data directly back into their equipment. One example: Seed prescriptions as part of the Preceon Smart Corn System, which was highlighted as one of Bayer's 10 blockbusters over the next 10 years. Thanks to the team of Ian McLaren and Will O'Donnell there in Chicago, and so many others on our product and engineering teams, who are advancing this new technology for our customers. #TeamBayer #FPS24

Thank you to PepsiCo for hosting a number of thought leaders across the food chain for their Global Agriculture Strategy & Sustainability Summit earlier this month in Izmir, Türkiye. We’ve been collaborating with PepsiCo for a decade now within our BayG.A.P. smallholder farming program. It was an honor to be invited to give a keynote on data’s role in the future of the food value chain. I was also excited to see the demonstration Ines Kapphan and Syamak Bahmanyar gave on our expert AI tool for farmers, leveraging our agronomic data-trained large language model. But the hidden benefit to these sorts of meetings, even for a bit of an introvert like me, is the relationship-building and side discussion of critical technologies that can help deliver sustainable outcomes along the food chain. The way we think about evolving technology and data for sustainability is both broad and deep: broadly needed for farmers around the world, and deeply urgent to help mitigate climate change and drive sustainable supply chains through the good use of data. This meeting was a reminder to show the cool thing. To be excited about possibilities in the hopes that that excitement spreads. Thanks to Ines and Syamak for joining me, along with Kiran K., Gerhard Adam, and Kai Wirtz! #RegenerativeAgriculture #DigitalFarming #LLM

Next Monday, June 17, our office in Chicago, Illinois will become a marketplace of ideas and a forum for highlighting our innovation. We'll discuss our research and development pipeline and with in-person attendees will dive deep into the technical alongside Tom Eickhoff, Kacy Perry, Scott Stein, Mark Kidnie, and Elzandi Oosthuizen. Here's some of what our experts are looking forward to sharing: #CSInnovationUpdate #RegenerativeAgriculture #AgInnovation

If you don't follow #agtech closely, let me give you an idea of some of the tech farmers and their agronomic teams are using today: 1) With a few clicks, a farmer has already created field boundaries in Climate FieldView. 2) Farmer shares those boundaries with DroneDeploy, which quickly maps a drone flight over the field. 3) The drone captures high-resolution field health imagery, and almost instantly, the farmer/agronomist gets a map of the current crop on their mobile device. No internet connection required. 4) While the drone flies, the a smartphone or tablet can begin generating a stand count (the number of plants in a specific area, compared to the expected number) and those results become available *moments* after the drone lands. Also no internet connection required. For context, calculating stand count on a 100-acre field would take hours. With technology, it takes about 15 minutes. I never cease to be amazed by the farmers who are using it, and by the work of our Bayer | Crop Science teams and platform partners bringing it to the farm gate. Thank you, Ethan Leonard, for contributing this blog. ? #TeamBayer #RegenerativeAgriculture https://lnkd.in/gg2nAcET

Recently Google has pulled back on some of the AI capabilities it rolled out in support of search.? ? While I’m confident that the skilled engineers at Google will take this practical user testing and turn it into an even better product, it does remind us of how critical robust training data – and a well-defined use case – is in AI applications.? ? We’ve been talking a lot lately about AI for ag, and the ways in which it can enhance agronomic knowledge when done right.? ? Crop Science CIO Amanda McClerren and I will be recording another Inside Innovation conversation together in a month, this time focused on AI applications in ag.? ? What questions do you have for how we’re using?artificial intelligence and large language models?to help farmers? Drop them below and we’ll try to address them in the recording! #AI #LLM #DigitalFarming

Join us June 17 for an update on our Crop Science innovation pipeline, where we'll hear from Bayer leaders Frank Terhorst, Bob Reiter, and Jeremy Williams and Brian Naber on what's next for Bayer's industry-leading innovations. #TeamBayer