The On-Farm Trial Operations Playbook

Running trials across 50 sites or 500 sites, the science is never the hard part. It's the 200 spreadsheets, the untagged photos, and the six weeks of cleanup before anyone can see results. This playbook walks through how we've seen teams build a trial operation that's clean and audit-ready from the day the first grower enrolls to the moment you hand over a commercial-ready report.

• Standardize enrollment before your first grower signs up. Once every field rep has their own intake form, retrofitting consistency is nearly impossible.
• Geotagged, timestamped verification isn't a nice-to-have, it's the difference between a photo and actual evidence. Teams using this approach have cut in-person site visits by roughly 80%.
• Same-day exports at harvest beat a six-week cleanup slog every time. That speed is often what lets your commercial team lead the conversation with growers instead of trailing a competitor.