North Trial Fields
Drought-tolerance trials, 340 ac
Soil Science Lab
NRCS-certified soil analysis
Watershed Station A
Runoff monitoring, 6 sites
Livestock Unit
Pasture genetics, 180 head
Extension Center
County outreach hub
East Seed Plots
Hybrid performance, 12 varieties
Watershed Station B
Tile drain monitoring
Fertilizer Blocks
Nitrogen rate trials, 8 treatments
47 active research partnerships.
Room for yours.
3,000 acres of working research plots. Students with soil under their fingernails by second period. Data that holds up in court.
Every pin on the map
is a story with results.
We don't just publish papers. We farm alongside our partners — season after season — and deliver data you can act on.
Three-Season Drought-Tolerance Trial
AgriSeed needed replicated field data across diverse soil types — not greenhouse results. We ran 14 hybrid treatments across our North Fields, covering loam-to-clay gradients that mirror their target markets in Kansas and Nebraska. Three seasons of hard data, independently verified.
Acres
340 ac
Duration
2021–2024
Measured Outcome
+18% yield under deficit irrigation
Agricultural Runoff & Watershed Study
The board needed data that would survive legal challenge in a contested watershed management case. Our instrumented tile-drain network across the south fields produced court-admissible records of nutrient loading under four cover-crop regimes. The data held up.
Acres
1,200 ac
Duration
2020–Ongoing
Measured Outcome
41% reduction in tile-drain nitrate load
Soil Health Benchmarking Program
The co-op's member-farmers needed a baseline and a roadmap. We established 47 permanent monitoring plots across their service area, running annual biological, chemical, and physical soil assessments. Every member farm now has five years of trend data they can take to the bank — literally.
Acres
620 ac
Duration
2022–Ongoing
Measured Outcome
23-point average Soil Health Score gain
Trust built
season after season.
We've run trials with four universities. Tillage is the only one where the data came back clean enough to take to our regulatory team without a second look. They understand that for us, every row is a commercial decision.
Marcus Hendrickson
Director of Agronomy Research
AgriSeed Midwest
The watershed data from Tillage's tile-drain network was the foundation of our watershed management plan. It survived two rounds of legal challenge. That's not something you get from a university that treats the farm as a teaching prop.
Sarah Kowalczyk
Senior Hydrologist
State Water Resources Board
Our member-farmers were skeptical of university research until they saw their own field names in the data tables. Tillage made it local. Five years in, we have benchmarks that are changing how our members think about their ground.
Dale Ostrowski
Agronomy Services Manager
Tri-County Grain Cooperative
What question are you
trying to answer?
Field trials. Watershed studies. Soil health benchmarks. Sponsored research. We've built the infrastructure — 3,000 acres, 18 years of data, and a team that understands that for you, every season counts.
Field Trials
Multi-season, replicated
Facilities Access
Labs, equipment, plots
Extension Collaboration
County-level outreach
Sponsored Research
Custom study design
Partnership Prospectus
Not ready to propose yet? Our prospectus covers available trial blocks, facility specs, data protocols, and partnership structures. 22 pages. No fluff.
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