Agricultural machinery autonomously driving on fields; animals being fed based on algorithms and caressed by petting robots – such futuristic scenarios in agriculture are still rather utopian. However, considering the low precipitation last year, it would already make a big difference if we could breed maize varieties that can cope better with extreme drought than the current ones.

The question relating to the future success of agriculture is not so much about robots, but rather about which plant varieties can best cope with changing conditions. This question is crucial to the daily work of our client KWS. As one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies, KWS is constantly finding new answers to this question – and it does so in a data-driven, digitally savvy manner and, for quite some time now, with the help of a business intelligence system as its central analytics tool.