Print This PageGrowing Value
Growing Yield
Agriculture will play an increasingly important role in addressing the challenges our world faces — meeting the food and feed demands of a growing population, trying to produce more yield on each acre, as well as working to meet the needs for emerging trends like biofuels and healthier diets. Increasingly, farmers are turning to something as simple as a seed to support these demands. Monsanto’s work in breeding higher-yielding seeds and developing trait technologies that better protect yield offers farmers a sustainable way to do more with less.
Breeding
Our research in plant breeding strives to add value to crops like corn, cotton and soybeans as well as fruits and vegetables. Monsanto uses breeding techniques and technology tools such as genomics, crop analytics, and marker-assisted breeding (MAB) to unlock the yield potential within seeds. This ensures that farmers have a strong foundation to start each growing season.
Biotechnology
Our research in plant biotechnology aims to protect or enhance the yield opportunity of each season’s harvest. Through biotechnology, we incorporate novel traits like insect protection and weed control in seed offerings, and we stack those technologies so farmers can get more benefit out of a single seed. In our R&D pipeline, we’re working on new traits to expand the benefits offered today.
