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Bayer Crop Science President bullish on agriculture

Despite current low commodity prices, Bayer’s Crop Science Division president is bullish on agriculture.

Liam Condon, President of Bayer Crop Science said the world’s first industry is about to change forever and for the better. Condon tells Brownfield multiple different technologies are finally starting to come together.

“Major advances in biotechnology, gene editing combined with advances in chemical sciences, combined with everything that is going on with digitalization. And if you take what is going on with advances now in the microbiome, the understanding of what is happening in the soil beneath the earth. If you put all of that together you start to generate completely new ideas, new approaches and the pace of innovation is extremely rapid compared with in the past.”

Despite low commodity prices, Condon calls this a golden age for agriculture. “The potential is endless right now,” said Condon. He said the innovation now needs to be turned into something practically useable for growers.

Liam Condon sat down with Brownfield during the 2017 Future of Farming Dialogue in Monheim, Germany in mid-September.