Purdue, Bayer Announce Partnership on Regenerative Agriculture
Purdue University and Germany-based Bayer have announced a public-private partnership aimed at improving the soil health of farmland while increasing food production.
The Coalition for Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture will be based out of Bayer’s innovation center at Discovery Park District at Purdue.
The university said the mission of the coalition is to generate real-world data in support of regenerative agriculture practices to “help farmers restore soil health and biomass, increase biodiversity, and improve the resiliency of ecosystems over time.”
America’s farmers are already global leaders in providing food worldwide, supplying a substantial amount of grain, meat and other agricultural products,” Karen Plaut, Purdue’s executive vice president for research, said in a news release. “But with population projections of 9 billion people in the coming years, it’s critical to provide the tools necessary to support those farmers who are called upon to produce even more while also serving as stewards of the land.”
