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European field platforms for abiotic stress management and seed care experiments

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Book plots at our field platforms for abiotic stress management and seed care experiments

Each Autumn, our field teams establish a number of field platform sites to evaluate your products such as seed treatments, bird repellents, herbicides and fertilizers for efficacy, tolerance to winter frost or spring drought, soil dissipation and accumulation, drone spraying etc. Field platform sites offer several benefits:

  • Representative conditions:  
    • We select our platform sites carefully to be favourable to the target stress or pest being evaluated, taking into account climate, soil and crop rotation and history of field damage. We also decide on crop varieties, soil preparation and drilling/planting time, arranging artificial contamination and irrigation when needed.
  • Specialized team and timely action:
    • Our experienced agronomists manage these sites together with a dedicated field team. Field platform experiments are labour-intensive and frequently checked, to plan application and assessments when required. Our teams also use various remote monitoring sensors and equipment such as connected weather station, soil tensiometers, irrigation systems and pheromone traps.
  • More data, more value:
    • We routinely organize drone flights to visualize crop development and plot differences, over time. Drone imagery data can also help detect subtle differences across plots, at emergence, vegetation or flowering stages. Drone analytics are supporting R&D teams for decision-making with near-real time availability, and they will also support your promotional campaigns

Seed treatment studies are performed by our EAS experts, including seed sourcing and cleaning, seed treatment and quality check (loading, dust, microbial survival as required), dispatch to field site and drilling. We can also support with in-house seed treatment formulation expertise. To increase chances of trial success, we use infected seed batches for Fusarium spp. and some other pathogens. 

Please get in touch with any questions!

Autumn drill 2023 UK

Photo: Autumn drill (UK 2023)