Biologicals & Biostimulants
Biologicals: For Advisers & Agents
What Biologicals changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.
Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. Biological products occupy a regulatory grey area between plant protection products and fertilisers, and their claimed benefits are frequently unsupported by independent UK data. This module holds the product register with regulatory classification, and — more usefully — provides the on-farm trial design that lets a business test a product on its own soils before committing a whole-farm budget.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Product manufacturer
Building UK evidence
Needs credible on-farm trial data at scale.
- Define the problem the product is meant to address
- Check regulatory and certification status
- Review available independent evidence
- Design a replicated on-farm trial
Agronomist
Advising on the category
Needs to separate evidence from marketing.
- Check regulatory and certification status
- Review available independent evidence
- Design a replicated on-farm trial
- Apply and record precisely
Organic producer
Permitted inputs only
Needs certifier approval confirmed before purchase.
- Review available independent evidence
- Design a replicated on-farm trial
- Apply and record precisely
- Measure the response
End to end
How Biologicals runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Define the problem the product is meant to address
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Check regulatory and certification status
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Review available independent evidence
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Design a replicated on-farm trial
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Apply and record precisely
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Measure the response
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Analyse with statistical honesty
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Adopt, reject or retest
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Biologicals does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Product register with regulatory classification and permitted claim scope
- Approved input checking for organic and certified systems
- Mode of action categorisation across biostimulants, biofertilisers and biocontrol
Operate and monitor
- Application timing and compatibility guidance
- On-farm replicated trial designer with randomisation and statistical power
- Trial result analysis with confidence intervals and honest null reporting
Comply and evidence
- Cost per hectare and break-even response calculation
- Nitrogen fixation and phosphate solubilisation credit assessment where evidenced
- Storage and viability record for live biological products
Analyse and improve
- Supplier evidence review with independent versus manufacturer trial distinction
- Integration with the nutrient plan where a credit is justified
- Community trial results pooling across the platform user base
Find
Find suppliers and laboratories
Filter by type, nation, distance and accreditation. Results are ranked by relevance to your holding once your holding record exists, and alphabetically before that.
6 records shown from the platform’s own register
- Module Nutrient Management Planning Flagship
- Module Fertilisers & Plant Nutrition Core
- Module Crop Protection, Pesticides & IPM Flagship
- Module Biologicals & Biostimulants Core
- Module Weed Management & Blackgrass Core
- Module Crop Disease & Pest Diagnostics Core
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Biologicals
The problem: Wants to test it properly before spending across 600 hectares.
What they do
- Define the problem the product is meant to address
- Check regulatory and certification status
- Review available independent evidence
- Design a replicated on-farm trial
What changes
- Trials completed
- Products adopted after evidence
- Break-even response achieved
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Trials completed
- 02Products adopted after evidence
- 03Break-even response achieved
- 04Cost per hectare of biological inputs
- 05Null results honestly recorded
Free tool
Run the numbers for your own holding
Enter your figures and get an answer you can act on, with the method shown so you can check it. Save the result to your account or take it away as a PDF.