Specialized CROs for Barley and Malting Barley Testing

At Agile Ag, our mission is to empower our client's research, development, production and marketing goals through agile and innovative solutions. We strive to deliver measurable results that enhance quality, increase efficiency and drive growth. We are a CRO with field stations in western Canada: BC, AB, SK and MB and greenhouse facilities in BC and SK. Agile Ag offers a diverse range of services including PMRA and CFIA regulatory services and protocol development, product efficacy trials on pesticides, fertilizers, biostimulants, soil amendments, adjuvants, GLP field MOR and TFD trials, greenhouse GLP and efficacy trials, CFIA-regulated trials including PNT, and pathology lab services.

Ag-Master Research is a contract research organization that provides support to the agricultural industry. We test new pesticides, seed varieties, microbial and fertilizers to the highest standards.

Ag Metrics Group is the preeminent agricultural Contract Research Organization (CRO) in the United States, delivering superior research quality, scientific rigor, and client-focused service across diverse growing regions. With a legacy rooted in scientific excellence and innovation, Ag Metrics Group sets the industry standard for field, greenhouse, and laboratory trials that support product development, regulatory approval, and commercialization for the world’s leading agricultural input companies. Ag Metrics Group comprises three regionally focused research companies — Pacific Ag Research, Florida Ag Research, and Michigan Ag Research — each strategically located to provide comprehensive trial coverage across the West, Southeast, and Midwest. This coast-to-coast footprint allows Ag Metrics Group to offer seamless multi-location trial management across a wide range of crops, soil types, climates, and regulatory environments. Pacific Ag Research, headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California, is recognized for its deep expertise in specialty crops, precision ag tools, and large-scale demonstration trials across the West Coast. Florida Ag Research, based in Thonotosassa, serves the Southeast U.S. with robust capabilities in tropical and subtropical crops, including citrus, strawberries, and vegetables, with strengths in entomology, plant pathology, and pest resistance screening. Michigan Ag Research, located in the heart of the Midwest, provides essential trial work in row crops, grapes, and fruit trees with a strong focus on disease, pest, and abiotic stress management under temperate growing conditions. Ag Metrics Group is trusted by global innovators to generate reliable data, accelerate time-to-market, and demonstrate real-world product efficacy. With decades of experience, a team of highly credentialed scientists, and a reputation for professionalism and precision, Ag Metrics Group is the CRO of choice for agricultural advancement in the United States.

Agricultural contract research organization (CRO) specializing in field trials and research excellence since 1983, providing top quality, cost-effective research to the Agricultural Industry. Services include efficacy and tolerance product evaluations, variety/plant breeding trials, environmental fate studies, and herbicide resistance testing.

Agricultural research company specializing in pesticide residue trials, efficacy trials, and GMO/APHIS regulated trials. Conducts research on fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers, and growth regulators across various crops including alfalfa, canola, potatoes, sugar beets, and wheat.

An independent agricultural CRO operating out of two locations near Saskatoon, SK., Canada. We conduct herbicide (efficacy, tolerance and re-cropping trials), Fungicide efficacy, seed treatment, inoculant, bio-stimulant, fertility, variety and demonstration field trials.

Small contract agricultural research company located in Southeast Iowa, specializing in product efficacy evaluation, multispecies screens, product residue testing, yield trials, environmental fate studies, EUP trials, transgenic crops, soil dissipation, and demonstration/perception plots.

Precision simulated environment chambers using machine vision and high-throughput screening to collect precise data.

Agricultural and environmental research & consulting firm established in 1985. Provides high quality efficacy, EPA-GLP and USDA-APHIS compliant field research services in the Northeastern U.S., specifically EPA Regions I & II. Over 100 years of combined agricultural experience among staff.

Diamond Ag Research is a Contract Research Organization founded in 1995, with new ownership taking over in 2023. Diamond Ag Research specializes in GLP residue trials, efficacy and yield trials, and biotechnology seed and research development. Based in Central Kansas, they conduct trials on multiple field sites (dryland and irrigated) in EPA Regions V and VIII, offering services for a wide variety of crops under complete client confidentiality.

FarmForest Research is an innovative and committed life sciences company serving the agricultural sector. Based in Ontario, Canada, they offer an international research and development service, conducting field trials, seed trials, greenhouse trials and efficacy testing of agricultural products.

Gillilan Ag Research is committed to conducting trials of the highest quality and standards. They offer GLP & regulatory field testing with access to 3 EPA regions, as well as efficacy and performance trials across multiple crop types. The company has experienced team members with decades of agricultural research expertise.

Great Lakes Agricultural Research Service, Inc. provides high quality, confidential field research in Wisconsin and Illinois. Established in 1987, they conduct GLP residue studies, biotech trials, and pesticide/agronomic efficacy studies. With 330 acres on-site and multiple off-site locations, they offer diverse soil types and extensive crop testing capabilities.

Insight Plant Health was created in 2020 to offer fully customizable contract laboratory research services for biological products in agriculture. Whether a biocontrol, biostimulant, or fertility product on seed, foliar, or in furrow, Insight has the expertise and experience to develop the data you need. Our dedicated team develops commercial products with gram positive, gram negative, and fungal actives including liquids, wettable powders, and planter box formulations for our customers. We conduct in vitro and in planta screens of customer products against our in-house collection of over 80 plant pathogens. Insight characterizes customer biological products for their ability to fix nitrogen and solubilize phosphate, and shows how the products work to transfer those nutrients to crop plants. We have conducted thousands of seed treatment and tank mix compatibility studies to provide in-tank and on-seed timing for our customers. With over 35 years combined experience in the testing and development of ag biologicals, Insight Plant Health can provide the support you need to register, market, and sell your products. Insight develops the data – you own the IP.

Agricultural research and consulting organization with research stations across five EPA regions in the United States. Acquired Great Plains Crop Services in 2024, expanding their field capabilities. Provides a broad range of field, greenhouse, and laboratory studies including efficacy, GLP residue, post-harvest, dissipation, pollinator health, field volatility/drift, post-application transfer from textiles, and worker exposure studies across the US.

A contract research company dedicated to providing scientific research for the improvement of crop production. Founded in 1975, they have been conducting research under Good Laboratory Practices (FIFRA 40 CFR Part 160) since 1989 with routine Quality Assurance inspections since 1988.

Mosier Ag Research is committed to conducting field trials of the highest quality and standards. We offer testing and evaluating efficacy and performance trials across multiple crops as well as regulatory GMO field trials. The company has decades of agricultural research expertise and experience in all phases of field research trials. Mosier Ag Research is located approximately 30-miles south of Overland Park, KS along highway 69. Over the last 4-6 years, about 50% of our research has focused on biological fertilizers, biological additives for pest control trials, biological herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, seed treatments, and "at plant" in-furrow types of applications and variety selection trials.

Agricultural research organization conducting field trials on various crops with facilities in York, Nebraska and additional sites in EPA region 7. They provide GLP and GEP field studies for crop protection products, fertilizers, and genetically modified seed varieties. The company operates on silt loam soils near York with access to 500 acres under overhead sprinkler irrigation, plus additional sites with sandy loam, clay loam, and loamy sand soils.

Independent agricultural consulting firm established in 1986, providing services including nutrient management planning, integrated pest management, independent contract research, geo-referenced mapping services, precision agricultural services, and food safety compliance.

A specialized agricultural research service company offering custom field trials, regulated field monitoring, specialty productions, and consulting services. Focused on attention-to-detail and customer service for plant breeding, biotechnology research, and specialty agriculture production.

Offering specialized agricultural field trial services conducting precise testing for crop protection, product development, and GLP registration. With locations in Arizona's desert climate and northwestern Montana, they provide year-round testing capabilities across diverse crops and technologies.

Quality ag research in West Texas - get data in an environment like no other

A specialized agricultural research company focusing on replicated research plots, demo plots for retail and industry, and small scale custom combining. Their team has extensive experience in small plot research with capabilities including randomized complete block design trials for various crops.

Headquartered in South Georgia with operations in Florida and Alabama, providing agricultural contract research services since 1992. Specializes in efficacy trials, GLP studies, variety evaluation, and biotechnology research across over 70 cropping systems.

SynTech Research is a leading Agricultural Contract Research Organization (CRO), providing a full range of contract efficacy, environmental, regulatory and market support services, to agrochemical, biostimulant, biocontrol and seed customers worldwide.

TapRoot Research Ltd conducts small plot RCBD research in cereals, oilseeds, soybeans, corn and sunflowers. We work with academia, government and industry companies on crop protection product evaluation (efficacy and tolerance), varietal evaluation and development and product and variety demonstration trials. Our research services include trial coordination, trial execution, trial consultation, data management and product registration.

Vision Research Park has the capability to conduct field-scale or small plot research in a no-till or conventional till environment. We conduct research with seed treatments, herbicides, inoculants, insecticides, fungicides, fertilizer, biologicals, variety development, crop rotations and production equipment. Our research staff has vast experience working with dozens of companies and all crops commonly grown in north west and central ND. Research highlights include: - Access to over 200,000 acres of northwestern North Dakota cropland with varied soil type and cropping history - 36 acres of small plot research land - Well-equipped small plot drill with variable rate dispersion and combine that records on-the-go harvest data - Feed and grain analyzer capable of determining protein, starch and fatty acid composition and an oilseed analyzer

A global environmental consulting firm providing innovative solutions to complex environmental, ecological, and human risk problems. Specializes in risk assessment, ecological modeling, exposure modeling, field studies, GLP management, and regulatory issues management.

Specialized agricultural research company providing trusted field research trials in Ontario, with extensive experience in GLP and efficacy trials on a wide variety of crops, fruits, and vegetables.

Family-owned research firm operated by fifth-generation farmers providing GLP/regulatory trials, efficacy testing, and soil dissipation studies. Located on "The Ridge" in Michigan, known for excellent tree fruit growing conditions with high disease and insect pressure.