Expert CROs for Canola and Rapeseed Research Trials
Find CROs with expertise in canola and rapeseed research trials. Compare capabilities in variety testing, disease resistance screening, oil quality analysis, and breeding support.
Canola and rapeseed (Brassica napus) research trials demand specialized understanding of winter survival characteristics, disease resistance mechanisms, and oil quality parameters that define commercial success in both traditional and emerging markets. The CROs featured here have established expertise in managing canola trial programs across diverse production environments, from the Canadian prairies through the Northern tier states of the United States, supporting breeding advancement, variety development, and agronomic optimization for this strategically important oilseed crop.
Critical Canola Trial CRO Capabilities
- Winter survival evaluation: Proven protocols for assessing winter canola hardiness, controlled freeze testing, and spring vigor characterization critical for expanding winter canola production zones
- Disease resistance screening: Established methodologies for clubroot pathotype screening, blackleg resistance evaluation, sclerotinia tolerance assessment, and other disease pressures specific to canola production
- Oil quality laboratory analysis: Comprehensive seed quality testing including oil content, fatty acid profiles, glucosinolate levels, erucic acid content, and other parameters defining canola grade and end-use applications
- Spring and winter type expertise: Understanding of distinct agronomic requirements, development patterns, and performance characteristics differentiating spring and winter canola production systems
Canola Research Service Portfolio
Canola-specialized CROs provide variety performance trials across multiple locations, breeding nursery management, disease resistance nursery screening, herbicide tolerance evaluations, winter survival assessments, agronomic practice optimization studies, and comprehensive seed quality analysis. Many organizations participate in coordinated testing networks such as the Canadian Canola Performance Trials (CPT) program and maintain quality laboratory capabilities aligned with Canadian Grain Commission standards and international canola quality specifications for biodiesel and food-grade oil markets.
Geographic Distribution and Market Context
Canola research is dominated by Canadian programs, where canola represents the country's most valuable crop alongside wheat, with expanding production in the Northern tier U.S. states including North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Winter canola adoption continues to grow in the Southern Great Plains and southeastern United States, creating demand for winter hardiness evaluation and disease resistance screening in these emerging production zones. The crop's importance for renewable biodiesel production, sustainable crop rotations, and high-value food-grade oil markets drives continued research investment. Many canola CROs maintain complementary capabilities in other Brassica species and small grains research. Organizations with regulatory support expertise can assist with variety registration requirements in Canada, the United States, and export markets, while those offering field testing across multiple climate zones provide valuable genotype-by-environment characterization for breeding programs targeting diverse production regions.
Canola Research CROs
Browse 27 specialized contract research organizations offering canola research trials and field testing services.
Canola CROs at a Glance
What the 27 organizations listing canola trials offer and where they work, from their directory profiles.
Trial types offered
- Performance Trials24 of 27
- Regulated Efficacy Trials (GEP)23 of 27
- Regulatory Studies (GLP)22 of 27
- Variety Testing22 of 27
- Early Development Trials20 of 27
- Concept Testing18 of 27
- Demonstration Trials18 of 27
- On-Farm Research Network9 of 27
Regions covered
- Western Canada8 of 27
- Pacific7 of 27
- Corn Belt6 of 27
- Mountain6 of 27
- Northern Plains6 of 27
- Southeast6 of 27
- Lake States5 of 27
- Southern Plains5 of 27
- Eastern Canada4 of 27
- Northeast4 of 27
- Appalachian3 of 27
- Delta States3 of 27

ABG Ag Services
An agricultural contract research and specialty data collection business specializing in contract agronomic research services on Midwestern crops in Indiana and South Dakota, with over 50 years of agricultural experience. Services include product efficacy, GLP, APHIS regulated trials, and product/concept demonstrations across several thousand acres of farmland.
Agile Ag
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 Metrics Group
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.
Ag-Quest
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.
AgraServ
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.
Carringer Agricultural Research Service, Inc.
Established in 2007, specializing in regulated GM crops and international GLP studies. Over 70 GLP field studies with more than 800 field trials conducted in North America, Latin America, and South Africa. Full-service research management organization with expertise in GMO field trials.
Diamond Ag Research
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.

Eurofins Agroscience Services
Eurofins Agroscience Services is the agricultural contract research business of Eurofins. It runs field, greenhouse, and laboratory studies on the safety and efficacy of chemical and biological crop protection products, and its in-house team handles regulatory registration. In the U.S. it runs field efficacy, GLP residue, dissipation, pollinator, and worker exposure studies from sites in Indiana, North Carolina, California, Missouri, and Maryland. It also has trial sites in Europe, Brazil, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand, and works for crop protection manufacturers, agri-tech companies, plant breeders, and the seed industry.
Great Lakes Ag-Research Service
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 Corp.
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.
Lange Research and Consulting
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.
NE Ag Research
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.
New-Marc Research Inc.
An agricultural and environmental research company located in St-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Eastern Canada, managed by Robert Malouin with over 15 years of experience in agricultural research. New-Marc Research covers PMRA and EPA zones 5, 5A & 5B and is a Standard Council of Canada GLP-recognized facility (Facility No. 700) for pesticide residue studies. Offering high quality data and research services for GLP, efficacy and confined/stewarded (Biotech) studies.

Performance Crop Research
Performance Crop Research (PCR) is located in Great Bend, Kansas and operates as an independent crop research facility with access to 3,000 acres. PCR has both dryland and irrigated capabilities as well as a small indoor greenhouse. Founded in 2018 to answer a need of conducting high-quality, timely research in the Kansas area. PCR continues to grow to meet the demands of the clients and research community needs on a variety of crops and products.

Range And Row
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.
Small Plot Inc.
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.

TapRoot Research
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
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
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