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Jord BioScience Field Trials Deliver Breakthrough Consistency in Biological Crop Protection, Boosting Soybean Yields Across Midwest

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Jord BioScience, a leading science and analytics company providing customizable microbial solutions for agriculture, unveiled two years of field trial data showing its proprietary microbial solutions consistently outperform industry-standard treatments, increasing soybean yield by up to 3.1 bushels per acre across 16 Midwest locations–even under dramatically different weather conditions.

The company’s approach, powered by its 6,500-isolate global microbial bank and advanced analytics, demonstrated win-rates* exceeding 80% and improved performance over leading biological and chemical benchmarks by 11 percent to 25 percent, signaling a new era of reliable, field-ready biologicals for farmers facing mounting pressures to deliver higher productivity and sustainability.

“Jord BioScience is committed to discovery of microbial solutions that consistently improve return on investment, while improving plant and soil health,” said Dr. Keri Carstens, president and CEO at Jord BioScience. “Our field data show that our microbial leads not only outperform current benchmarks but also provide much-needed reliability for farmers seeking sustainable, high-performing crop inputs. Through partnerships with leading agribusinesses, we aim to be a trusted, science-driven partner to advance better and more consistent crop protection products.”

By understanding how microbes, as living entities, work in the soil to enhance or detract from each other, Jord BioScience is creating solutions that have a superior win-rate in the field. Unlike a chemistry-based application approach, where a product is applied everywhere at the same rate, Jord sees a much higher win-rate when identifying microbial interactions that complement each other biologically.

“In two drastically different growing seasons, our microbial leads consistently delivered yield improvements and high win rates—even in high-yield environments where biologicals rarely show ROI,” said Andrea Arias, vice president of Data Science and Crop Testing. “This consistency is a game-changer for growers seeking reliable biological crop protection.”

For the past two years, Jord has studied five microbial leads in soybean seed treatments to identify biological ingredients that can spur emergence, plant health and yield. Across 16 locations in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Illinois, Jord’s microbial leads, integrated into standard commercial soybean seed treatments, delivered yield increases of 1.4 to 3.1 bushels per acre during both the drought-affected 2023 season and the wet 2024 season.

Quality Microbials Discovery for Fast-Tracked Crop Protection Solutions

“In December of 2022, we set a goal to improve performance for a current market-leading microbial product, and to do that with a faster developmental timeline than traditional products,” said Carstens. “By March 2023, our team had identified five microbial leads that were ready to use in replicated field trials. That level of speed and productivity is unheard of in the agricultural research space.”

Jord’s discovery process aims to address challenges by optimizing the microbial network that plants rely on for growth. By identifying how microbes work together to enhance microbial activities in the soil, Jord inoculants help boost plant productivity. Jord goes even further by screening for leads that will satisfy regulatory and fermentation scalability benchmarks at the beginning of the process, ensuring product quality end-to-end.

Jord BioScience Microbial Bank helps crop protection companies address challenges by optimizing the microbial network that plants rely on for growth.

“When creating the Jord BioScience Microbial Bank, our founder and Chief Science Officer, Dr. Linda Kinkel was very specific in sourcing microbes strategically from diverse global agriculturally relevant locations. Dr. Kinkel’s rigorous selection process contributes to Jord’s high success rate in finding solutions for a variety of problems in the field,” Arias said.

Jord BioScience’s proprietary technology and custom solutions are available to commercialize, by incorporating with products in the market to extend lifecycle, or to partner with microbials in the development pipeline to enhance crop performance, drive more consistent results and expand market adoption. In addition, Jord can create entirely new products that introduce novel activity, offering further opportunities for differentiation and market growth.

For more information about Jord BioScience, visit jordbioscience.com.

*Win rate is calculated as the number of locations with a 0.5 bu/ac advantage over the leading biological and chemistry (Treatment 3) over the total number of locations.

AboutJord BioScience

Jord BioScience, founded on research from the University of Minnesota, is a science and analytics company developing cutting-edge microbial technologies to enhance crop productivity and sustainability in agriculture. The company leverages over three decades of research by Dr. Linda Kinkel and her team, who collected thousands of unique soil microbes globally. Jord's proprietary technology and custom formulations are designed to extend product lifecycles, enhance crop performance, and expand market adoption of microbial solutions. From product concept through commercialization, Jord BioScience fast-tracks novel product development, reducing discovery from years to less than 10 months. This approach maximizes value and results in today's competitive marketplace. The company is currently conducting product development trials in the U.S., Argentina, and Brazil. For more information, visit www.jordbioscience.com