Important crop

Corn4FUTURE – More sustainable than you might think

Corn: Flexible and high performant

Corn’s performance as a crop is impressive. It can be used for a broad variety of applications: Food (direct), animal feed, source of bioenergy and biofuel, key ingredient in a variety of food and industrial products and primary material in industrial processes. Corn is easy to cultivate and manage, requiring minimal plant protection while offering high productivity.

What can you do with 1 hectare of corn?

Let´s look at the facts: Just 1ha of corn can produce feed for: 37 pigs or 7 cattle or 80,000 eggs or 19,000 liters of milk or power supply for 5 households. Especially with modern hybrid corn, we have a strong performer – both in terms of yield and sustainable potential (Source: Deutsches Maiskomitee e.V. (DMK), 2024).

KWS corn not only outperforms in yield. Further, it is very sustainable with respect to drought tolerance, nutrient efficiency and saving CO2 emissions.

Dr. Serge Alexander Costa Zagermann, Product Manager Corn International

Closer look: What´s in for sustainability?

Versatile performance

Corn adapts to diverse and challenging environments, enabling its cultivation in various conditions across the globe.

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Yield increase

Progress in plant breeding is the most relevant contributor to safeguard food production for a growing world population in the face of climate change and limited resources.

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corn water and nitrogen efficiency farmer

Sustainable use

Water and nitrogen availability are the main limiting factors for corn yield. Breeding for yield contributes to improving the efficiency and sustainability of water and nitrogen use.

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A shared fight against drought – Farmer story.

Drought tolerance & ClimaCONTROL3

Under the ClimaCONTROL3 label, KWS offers innovative, drought-tolerant grain corn varieties that derive from a dedicated research and breeding program. The number three in the name stands for the fact that drought stress can have three different impacts on plants depending on the respective growth phase: Before, during or after flowering.

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Reduction of CO2 emissions & DryDown+

KWS' DryDown+ grain corn varieties are characterized by a superior dry-down capacity (drying capacity). Internal trials show that the reduction of the crop moisture from 30 to 20 percent at harvest can reduce the necessary drying costs by up to 50 percent. The long-term breeding goal is a grain moisture level of a maximum of 15% at harvest to eliminate the need of drying at all – and also enabling a significant reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions during the drying cycles.

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Sustainability starts with the seed

The future only works together

Bringing nutrition, nature and efficiency together: As one of the world’s leading seed specialists, we are convinced we can and must make a significant contribution toward finding solutions for sustainable farming that are also economically viable.

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