Can We Have It All? Protecting Trust, Speed, Cost & Reliability in Biostimulant Research
12:30 pm - Tuesday 9th June 2026
- Traditionally, agricultural R&D has been expensive and slow, with new products often taking up to 12 years to reach the market. There is strong ambition across the industry for biological products to be developed faster and perform more reliably in real-world environments, and we are beginning to see that shift happen
- However, in biostimulants and other biologicals, R&D cycles remain lengthy and costly, slowing innovation despite growing demand for sustainable, climate-resilient solutions
- We explore how vision AI and the digitization of biological observation can help structure R&D data, generate more reliable insights, accelerate product development, and enable more robust technology transfer from early-stage innovators to large agricultural companies
