Ten Blockbusters. One Decade. A New Era of Agriculture.
At Bayer, we’re delivering breakthrough innovations that redefine productivity, resilience, and sustainability in farming — today and for the future.
From next-generation seeds and traits and crop protection to digital and biological solutions, our pipeline of ten blockbusters over ten years reflects Bayer’s long-term commitment to innovation that matters for farmers, food systems, and the planet.
Transformational solutions across seeds and traits, crop protection, and digital agriculture.
With short stature corn hybrids as its anchor, this crop system has the potential to transform global corn production.
PRECEON™ is a smart corn system that considers every challenge a grower faces, and offers integrated solutions, including short corn hybrids, new practices, digital decision support, and more. It’s designed to succeed at the field level – responding to the unique needs of each field to enable the best outcomes. Field by field, farm by farm, we’re designing a new future for corn and the people who grow it.
Our breeding approach is the furthest advanced and has already begun a targeted commercial launch with a very strong response from growers. Bayer is partnering with select farmers in a program we call Groundbreakers. In 2025, Preceon™ continued to gain strong momentum as acres doubled year over year in Bayer’s U.S. Ground Breakers program, driven by positive on-farm experiences. Around 650 growers participated in 2025, planting approximately 85,000 acres. Preceon™ also delivered strong value in Europe, particularly in the silage market, with about 500 growers planting roughly 25,000 acres across Spain and Italy.
The PRECEON™ biotech approach in partnership with BASF is scheduled to launch in the US in 2027, with Canada expected to follow in 2029. The biotech approach will allow short corn to be combined with a wide array of germplasm to enable broad acre application in more environments. A unique benefit in the European silage market is the increased feed tonnage and quality of PRECEON™ to dairy cows, which has shown an increased milk production of up to 2 liters of milk per cow per day, compared to conventional tall corn in initial trials. If confirmed at a larger scale, this feature could bring direct downstream value not only to farmers but also dairy food producers.
The PRECEON™ gene editing approach, in partnership with Pairwise, was announced in 2024 and will allow the system to fit within diverse environments while accelerating further development.
Learn more about Preceon™.
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The first ketoenol crop protection product for foliar and soil uses.
Plenexos, a cutting-edge ketoenol insecticide, is an advanced sucking pest management solution that harmonizes the needs of growers with environmental stewardship, making it an integral part of a regenerative approach to crop protection. Plenexos flexibly controls pests across life stages, application timings, and methods.
As a ketoenol insecticide, the product is taken up through a plant’s leaves, moves down to the roots and up again, providing all-around protection for the entire plant, including new tissue. This innovative technology is just the first step towards more sustainable and effective crop protection.
Commercially launched in 2025 in Colombia, Plenexos is now in the hands of local farmers. Colombia is the first country to make our new insecticide with blockbuster potential available to growers. Regulatory approval in Brazil is expected in 2026, bringing this innovation to even more farmers worldwide.
Agriculture's first novel mode of action to control emerged weeds in over 30 years.
Displaying unique product properties, Icafolin is agriculture's first novel mode of action to control emerged weeds in over 30 years.
Icafolin has been developed for initial uses in soybean, cereals, pulses, and oil seed crops, as well as pome and stone fruits, tree nuts, grapes, and citrus. As a novel mode of action, it has unique properties and benefits. Treated weeds become “frozen” in the fields, meaning they stop competing with crops for water, nutrients and sunlight, but the dead weeds remain in the field longer because they largely maintain their structure. This creates a mulch layer that helps prevent erosion and trap moisture in the soil. By providing effective weed control it reduces the need for tillage, supporting regenerative practices in agriculture that can improve soil health.
Icafolin is expected to launch in 2028, starting in Brazil, bringing farmers a new solution to support healthier, more productive crops across key markets worldwide.
Icafolin is the first product to utilize CropKey, Bayer’s breakthrough R&D approach to developing new crop protection products, which optimized the formulation recipe by considering multiple dimensions including efficacy, safety and sustainability criteria, and farmer convenience. CropKey will continue to accelerate how researchers design instead of screen for new molecules, supporting faster development of future products targeting specific proteins in weeds, pests, and crop diseases.
Learn more about CropKey, our key to unlocking agriculture’s next great molecule.
5 herbicide tolerances. 1 breakthrough soybean trait.
Vyconic™ is a fourth-generation soybean herbicide resistance trait designed to give farmers maximum flexibility in weed management. By enabling tolerance to some of the most widely used and effective herbicides in soybean production, Vyconic™ helps growers adapt to evolving weed pressures, changing environmental conditions, and market demands - without compromising yield potential.
Vyconic™ soybeans offer tolerance to a broad spectrum of crop protection options. This empowers farmers to tailor their weed control programs to the specific challenges in their fields, including the growing threat of herbicide-resistant species such as Palmer amaranth.
In addition to glufosinate, glyphosate, 2,4-D, and dicamba, Vyconic™ adds tolerance to the selective herbicide mesotrione. This expanded compatibility supports more effective, flexible, and sustainable weed management strategies across diverse growing conditions.
Targeted for commercial introduction in the U.S. in 2027, Vyconic™ will offer farmers a powerful new soybean system for improved weed control, higher yield potential, and greater operational flexibility.
Five tolerances. Five proteins. Weed and insect protection all season long.
Intacta 5+ is a next-generation soybean biotechnology that combines broad-spectrum herbicide tolerance with advanced insect protection, delivering two powerful benefits in one integrated system. It offers farmers greater flexibility in weed management while safeguarding crops from the major caterpillar species that threaten soybean productivity throughout the entire crop cycle.
Intacta 5+ integrates five proteins that contribute to enhanced biotechnology sustainability and improved crop management. Two of these proteins - Cry1A.2 and Cry1B.2 - have not been used previously in soybeans, broadening the spectrum of action against key caterpillar pests, including Rachiplusia nu, Spodoptera eridania, and Elasmopalpus lignosellus.
With this new biotechnology, insect protection begins at emergence and continues through harvest, helping protect yield potential during the most vulnerable stages of plant development. Intacta 5+ is also the first soybean biotechnology to control the lesser cornstalk borer, a pest that attacks seedlings in the initial growth phase, compromises crop establishment, and can cause significant productivity losses.
Alongside its insect protection, Intacta 5+ provides tolerance to five widely used herbicides, giving farmers the same flexible and effective weed management options needed to address resistant and hard-to-control weed species.
Intacta 5+ is expected to be commercially introduced in Brazil in the 2027/2028 planting season, delivering a comprehensive soybean system designed for higher yield potential, improved sustainability, and greater confidence in both weed and insect management.
Learn more about Intacta 5+ here (Portuguese).
What’s Next?
Delivering the next wave of innovation for more productive and resilient farming.
At Bayer, we continue to innovate with five additional blockbusters designed to give farmers more choice, flexibility, and protection across key crops. Our new global fungicide will support healthy crops and robust resistance management across cereals, corn, fruits, and vegetables. Next-generation soybean traits — including the fifth-generation herbicide tolerance and fourth-generation insect traits — will provide enhanced flexibility and protection for growers, particularly in Latin America and Brazil. In corn, the fourth-generation rootworm trait and fifth-generation herbicide tolerance will deliver new modes of action and additional weed and pest control options. Together, these innovations reinforce Bayer’s leading position and promise strong value for farmers worldwide.
It refers to Bayer’s ambition, announced at the Crop Science Innovation Update in June 2024, to deliver ten major agricultural innovations over a ten-year horizon starting from that point. The portfolio spans seeds and traits, crop protection and integrated farming systems designed to support farmers worldwide.
In this context, a blockbuster is an innovation with the potential to generate more than €500 million in annual peak sales and achieve broad adoption across crops and regions. These innovations are expected to deliver significant agronomic value while supporting productivity, resilience, and regenerative agricultural practices.
No. Some innovations are already commercially available in select markets, while others are in advanced development or regulatory review. Launches are expected to occur progressively over the ten-year period following the 2024 announcement, with some innovations extending into the early 2030s depending on development progress and regulatory timelines.
Bayer’s blockbuster pipeline reflects a systems approach to agriculture. Rather than isolated products, many innovations are designed to combine genetics, traits, crop protection, agronomic practices, and digital tools to address real-world farming challenges at the field level.
“What’s Next” highlights additional blockbuster innovations currently in development beyond the featured products. These solutions represent the later part of the tenyear pipeline and beyond, reinforcing Bayer’s longterm innovation agenda and its commitment to delivering new value for farmers over time.