Cereals

KWS – Your cereals specialist

As the cereals specialist of the KWS Group, we are active internationally. Our product is progress - in plant breeding. The continuous development of new and improved cereal varieties as well as highly qualitative seeds is our goal. Hybrid rye, wheat and barley are the main crops in our cereals portfolio.

The KWS cereals varieties stand for yield progress and the economic success of the farmer. All of our research and development activities focus on one goal: the development of top performing varieties that meet the demands of the market and are environmentally friendly.

To reach our goals, a healthy combination of experience, research, innovation and practical field work is employed.

By staying in close contact to the agricultural and food industry, current and future practical requirements as well as regional differences are considered in the process of breeding new varieties. All these factors allow us to produce leading varieties with continually better yield, resistance and adaptability to environmental conditions.

Detailed information about the country specific products and local consultants can be found on the separate country pages, which you find in the table below.

Impressions of our cereals

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seed production

Insights

PollenPLUS

The innovative PollenPLUS technology from KWS ensures significantly improved pollen formation in hybrid rye and effectively strengthens the plants’ resistance to ergot: The increased pollen shedding prevents the fungus from penetrating the stigmas, the flowers are fertilized faster and the glumes close sooner – meaning the hybrid rye has the best possible protection.

Oats – for healthy crop rotations

It’s the ultimate trend cereal and has the image of a “superfood”: Demand for foodstuffs made with oats is booming. From a nutritional point of view, oats are rich in valuable vitamins and can help foster good health in humans – they’re high in fiber and their consumption has been shown to lower blood cholesterol and thus the risk of heart disease, according to the EU’s “Health Claims”*. Oat cultivation is gaining attractiveness for the farmer as the milling industry is intensely searching for regionally produced raw material. The sales opportunities for the millers are correspondingly great – the variety of products is growing beyond classic groats and flakes: Be it in cereal bars, oat drinks, or as a basis for meat substitute products, oats are now consumed in many innovative products.