NCSU

Bayer CropScience contributed $1 million to North Carolina State University to endow a chair in sustainable development. Tom Rufty, Ph.D., co-director of the Center for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education and a professor of environmental plant physiology in the Department of Crop Science, has been named the first Bayer CropScience Professor of Sustainable Development.


Texas Tech

Bayer CropScience has contributed $7.5 million to the Texas Tech University Department of Plant and Soil Science, Lubbock, Texas. The contribution will support a research collaboration between Bayer CropScience and the university, and a planned Plant and Soil Sciences Building. The collaborative research project will be focused on developing cotton with improved fiber properties. The project includes scientists affiliated with the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute within the Department of Plant and Soil Science.


North Dakota State University/South Dakota State University

As part of the Winter Cereals: Sustainability in Action, a research and education initiative developed by Bayer CropScience and Ducks Unlimited, North Dakota State University and South Dakota State University were selected to develop new winter wheat varieties with improved characteristics such as winter hardiness, high yield, disease resistance and good milling qualities. The research initiative seeks to expand the use of winter wheat as a cropping option for producers and nesting habitat for waterfowl. The initiative promotes a stewardship model for improving the agricultural productivity of farmland while retaining and improving the habitat values important to North America’s waterfowl and other wildlife. Winter cereals provide spring nesting cover as well as additional cropping options to growers.