Corn scientists at work: in a Bayer CropScience trial field in Monheim, Raimund Trapp (left) and Dr. Reinhard Friessleben check the progress of their test plants.
Corn is the world’s most important cereal. Due to its high protein and starch content, more than half of the corn harvested worldwide is processed into animal feed. What’s more, the demand for meat in threshold countries is also rising as a result of their growing prosperity. This all means that corn is more in demand than ever before. However, hard-to-kill weeds are becoming increasingly common in corn fields.
Two-fold strategy for sustainable agriculture
In some fields, these busy rivals overrun the corn plants within the shortest of times. In addition, weeds are already frequently resistant to up to three herbicides. Researchers at Bayer CropScience are now entering the battle against these harmful plants with a two-fold strategy: they have combined two especially efficient chemical entities in one all-new herbicide – Adengo™. To find out more about the methods scientists are using to help safeguard a major crop that forms the basis of food and animal feed production, read on here.