Innovation & Research Projects

EIP Digital Regenerative Agronomy
Objective
Build and validate crop-specific Advisory Modules. The project enables agronomist-authored fertilization modules to help agronomy experts scale and monetize their knowledge through expert-created fertilizer modules tailored for specific crops, regions, or customer contexts.
Deliverables
Intelligent digital platform featuring a scalable marketplace for agronomic modules.
Consortium
Groeibalans (Lead), SoilBeat...
Timeline
Nov 2024 - Dec 2027.

SNN / EFRO Datadriven Agriculture
Objective
Increase profitable regenerative agriculture by optimizing SoilBeat to convert plant sap analyses and bio-indicators into actionable AI-supported insights. Includes AI/ML development with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and bio-indicator research with the University of Groningen.
Deliverables
SoilBeat builds the Plantsap Insight module and Data model. Additional deliverables include AI-driven soil health diagnostics, enzymatic bio-indicators, 'microlearnings', and a 125-farmer pilot.
Consortium
SoilBeat (Lead), CO2L Farming, GroeiBalans, Mulder Agro, WeerBaar Telen, RUG, VU Amsterdam.
Timeline
Oct 2023 - Dec 2026.

EIP Beanovation
Objective
Scale sustainable fava bean and edamame cultivation in the Netherlands by tackling chocolate spot disease and creating profitable supply chains with a built-in distribution channel. Proves the model scales to any crop by developing a new crop-specific Advisory Module for field beans & edamame.
Deliverables
SoilBeat builds the Bean & Edamame Advisory Module, featuring in-platform alerts and explanations (e.g., disease risk from abnormal N:Ca ratios) tied to real-time field data. Additionally delivers 3 scaled product-market combinations (PMCs).
Consortium
Soyconsultant (Lead), SoilBeat, 4 farms (J. Jansen, Mts. Stehouwer, Janknegt C.V., Mts. Grijsen), Agraservice Lindenhols + 6 service partners incl. NovaCropControl (plant sap lab), TerraVita/Jason Hobson (US agronomy), Studio Fava (food innovation). Letters of support from HAK.
Timeline
Dec 2025 - Oct 2028.