Innovation & Research Projects

EIP Digital Regenerative Agronomy

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

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

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.