Platform10 is an international, multi-year collaboration that will accelerate promising biopesticide companies, rigorously assess products, enhance grower confidence, and facilitate market development and adoption.
About Field TrialsIntroducing Don Cameron - 'The Grower Talks' podcast
The Platform10 podcast series, 'The Grower Talks', is delighted to welcome our fourth studio guest: Don Cameron Read MoreIntroducing Pam Marrone - 'The Grower Talks' podcast
The Platform10 podcast series, 'The Grower Talks', is delighted to welcome our third studio guest: Pam Marrone. Read MoreThe 2024 Biologicals Cohort Announced for Platform10
In a highly competitive selection process, the 2024 cohort of biological product companies were invited to participate in Plaform10 commercial field trials. Read MoreIntroducing Carl Casale - 'The Grower Talks' podcast
The Platform10 podcast series, 'The Grower Talks', is delighted to welcome our second studio guest: Carl Casale. Read MorePlatform10 is launched at OGS!
It was great to be able to finally, and formally, launch Platform10 at the Organic Growers Summit in Monterey today. Read MoreWhat is Platform10?
Platform10 emerged from the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit which saw stakeholders from a wide range of the specialty crop industry, (outside the US, defined as vegetables, fruits, nuts & organics), meet and discuss the rapidly emerging landscape for biological products.
As regulators around the world set increasingly formal timelines for the removal of named chemical pesticides from agricultural production, the need to find alternative inputs to manage plant disease and pests has become much more urgent.
The consensus amongst those attending the Summit was that to enhance grower confidence, understanding and adoption of biological alternatives, growers had to be at the center of the biological innovation story. Platform10 was born.
Read MoreUpcoming Field Trials
Platform10 is conducting global field trials, targeting specific crops and the impact of disease and pests. Working with growers, trials will be overseen by independent and highly qualified third parties, working in collaboration with the promising biopesticide company’s technical personnel. These trials will rigorously assess products to enhance grower confidence and adoption.
The first set of field trials, scheduled through 2024, will be focused on Western Grower properties in California. Open to international biopesticide companies, this first cohort of field trials will enable Platform10 to provide tight governance around the trial process before expanding to international markets.
'The Grower Talks' Podcast Series
Dennis Donohue and Peter Wren-Hilton co-host Platform10's podcast series, 'The Grower Talks'.
The 2024 Salinas Biological Summit
Support growers adapt to a changing environment
June 25 – 26, 2024, Salinas, California
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