Small scale 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.
- Disease and weed control products tested according to protocol.
- Mini-strips between 30 - 50 ft plots, 4 rows wide in 30" rows. Other row lengths and plot dimensions are available by request.
- Seed treatments, in-furrow, foliar, etc.
- Common seed treatments include chemical and biological treatments.
- Crop tolerance studies.
- Fungicide product comparisons.
- Want to showcase your product in the field? Custom planting and harvest options available.
- 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.
large scale field trials
Focused on commercially relevant, field-scale trials conducted in partnership with farmers in northwest Iowa.
In addition to equipment, we offer access and reach. We maintain strong community connections that open doors to progressive growers and additional acres for research. We also work closely with local ag retailers, providing the flexibility to incorporate custom operations when required.
This combination of resources, expertise, and trusted relationships positions us to confidently facilitate a wide range of field-scale trials. Our goal is to provide manufacturers with high-quality, commercially relevant data to support product evaluation and adoption in the marketplace.
- We are experienced farmers who operate a commercial-scale fleet of equipment designed to meet the needs of research at scale.
- Our capabilities include 12 or 8-row field-scale plots across vertical tillage, no-till, and strip-till systems.
- Harvest is performed with a John Deere combine equipped with a calibrated, GPS-enabled AgLeader InCommand 1200 yield monitor, ensuring accurate and consistent data collection.
In addition to equipment, we offer access and reach. We maintain strong community connections that open doors to progressive growers and additional acres for research. We also work closely with local ag retailers, providing the flexibility to incorporate custom operations when required.
This combination of resources, expertise, and trusted relationships positions us to confidently facilitate a wide range of field-scale trials. Our goal is to provide manufacturers with high-quality, commercially relevant data to support product evaluation and adoption in the marketplace.
testing environments
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Yellow & green specks represent corn and soybean acres. Alpha Ag Research is located in the heart of corn and soybean production.
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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 nearby for specific trial requirements related to tillage, fertility, weed density, and pathogen screening for crop protection studies.
Our primary soils in northwest Iowa are highly productive and well drained mollisols derived from Peoria Loess. This soil type is 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.
Our primary soils in northwest Iowa are highly productive and well drained mollisols derived from Peoria Loess. This soil type is 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.
Crops
Trial options will be focused on corn & soybean crops. Other crops considered for trials if adaptable to Iowa.
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.
questions?
Have a field study or project in mind? Contact us to see if we can help!
Field studies for 2026 are being planned now!
Call or Email to discuss trial options.
Field studies for 2026 are being planned now!
Call or Email to discuss trial options.
