Trial Options

  • Flexible to meet your needs​
    • We would be very glad to review your protocols and offer you bids to conduct trials for you!
    • We offer experiment creation, seed packaging, plot planting, soil sampling, in-season observations, plant tissue sampling, grain sampling, harvest data, etc.
  • Efficacy trials
    • Disease and weed control products tested according to protocol.
  • Yield / Variety trials
    • Mini-strips between 30 - 50 ft plots, 4 rows wide in 30" rows. Other row lengths and plot dimensions are available by request. 
    • This is a useful service for seed companies looking for supplemental yield data from additional environments for pre-commercial advancements.
  • Crop Protection trials
    • ​Seed treatments, in-furrow, foliar, etc.
    • Common seed treatments include chemical and biological treatments.
    • Crop tolerance studies.
    • Fungicide product comparisons.
  • Demonstration Plots
    • Want to showcase your product in the field? Custom planting and harvest options available.
  • Fertilizer product trials
    • Starters, early-season, late-season, split applications, you name it...we can do it.​
    • We have been using our custom built corn side-dress bar and plot sprayer with great success for applying multiple treatments in a single pass on fertility trials.
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equipment

We operate with RTK GPS guidance to ensure the most accurate placement of products and reduce treatment errors from operational mistakes.
  • Our custom research application equipment has been specifically fabricated and calibrated to apply multiple treatments in a single pass with high precision and reduced contamination between treatments.
  • Field trials are planted using using cutting edge precision of RTK GPS guidance combined with vSet precision vacuum seed meters for high quality plots and uniform spacing .
  • Row length is fully customized to customer requirements.
  • Application of products at planting:
    • In-furrow liquid, in-furrow dry, 2x2 liquid, 2x2 dry 
  • Application of post-emergence products:
    • Dry broadcast, liquid broadcast via banded or foliar spray.
    • Specialized research plot sprayer is easily customizable to adapt to several application needs.
    • Multi-boom sprayer bar allows for several treatments within a single pass.
    • Fully adjustable sprayer height to allow for correct boom heights of small soybeans to tasseled corn.
  • Our corn side-dress bar has been custom built to apply several treatments in a single pass. It is equipped with new Unverferth double coulter row units spaced 15" from each other. This places products 7.5" from the planted row.
  • Calibrated plot combines utilize HarvestMaster High Capacity GrainGage combined with the latest Harvest Master MIRUS software to record harvest data with precision and accuracy.

testing environments

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While most Alpha Ag trials are conducted in northwest Iowa near our headquarters in Sanborn, Iowa, a diverse set of testing locations are available across Midwestern states to provide many environments for trials where multiple sites are needed.

Our primary soils in northwest Iowa are highly productive and well drained - very representative of millions of crop acres of the upper Midwest. All trial sites are selected for consistency and uniformity to produce high quality assessment data. Call for details concerning trial environments that suite your field studies.
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Crops

Trial options will be focused on corn & soybean crops. Other crops considered for trials if adaptable to Iowa.
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Data Services

Full statistical analysis of assessment data is available to sort it all out.
  • Data collection import and reports from ARM software.
  • Have an ARM protocol created? We can handle it. No protocol? No problem. Let us discuss your goals and create a trial protocol that fits your needs.
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questions?

Have a field study or project in mind? Contact us to see if we can help!
Field studies for 2021 are being planned now!
Call or Email to discuss trial options.