AI-powered agricultural biotechnology
AI-powered biological solutions for smarter agriculture.
Models read crop health, soil and climate risk. Biology acts on what they find, only where the field can respond.
The product line
Four formulations, four jobs.
Each product covers one window in the season. Full label specifications, rates and field conditions are on the technology page.
412 replicated strip trials across 9 states, 2022–2026
+4.1% mean yield in cereals, 23% of sites with no measurable response
Batch-level CFU counts published with every delivery note
Registration status varies by country. Availability is confirmed before any order is accepted.
The AI platform
Seven models decide where biology is worth applying.
Every model is trained on the same 412 replicated strip trials, and every one is allowed to return the answer that no product should be applied at all.
01
AI crop health analysis
Multispectral imagery and stand counts are scored against the trial archive to separate a nutrition problem from a structural one before any product is discussed.
02
AI soil monitoring and prediction
Soil test history, texture and organic matter are modelled forward so the colonisation window can be predicted rather than guessed at planting.
03
AI disease detection
Leaf-level image classification flags the common cereal and rape pathogens early, and separates disease pressure from abiotic stress that biology cannot fix.
04
AI-based irrigation recommendations
Soil moisture curves and forecast evapotranspiration set the application window, because a foliar biological applied into the wrong water status does nothing.
05
Crop yield prediction
A response range, not a single number. The model returns the expected treated and untreated outcome with the uncertainty attached, including the fields where the range crosses zero.
06
Weather and climate risk analysis
Stress-window probability across the season sets the timing for StomaGuard, and flags the seasons where the risk is too low to justify the pass.
07
Smart farming dashboard
One field view: model scores, application cards, trial strips and measured outcome, so the season can be audited rather than remembered.
Model outputs are advisory. A named field agronomist signs every recommendation before it reaches a field.
Where we start
The product is the last decision, not the first.
Before a programme is quoted, four things are checked. If any of them fails, a biological input is the wrong purchase that season and our agronomists will say so in writing.
Drainage and compaction come first
A penetrometer reading above 2.5 MPa in the top 30 cm caps the response of every product in the line. Root colonisation cannot happen in a pan. Fix the structure, then inoculate.
Soil chemistry has to be in range
Below pH 5.2 the Bacillus strains in RhizoSet survive poorly. Lime first; the response the following season is consistently larger than anything the inoculant delivers on acid ground.
The tank-mix has to be survivable
Several seed-applied fungicides reduce viable counts by more than 60% within four hours of contact. We publish a compatibility list and will refuse an order that cannot be applied safely.
Someone has to be able to measure it
Every programme includes at least one untreated strip. Without it there is no way to separate the product from the season, and a programme that cannot be measured will not be renewed.
Structure, chemistry, tank-mix and measurement are checked in that order. Each one that fails caps everything below it.
How a season runs
Four contact points between planting and stubble.
Stage 01 · Establishment
Seminal root colonisation
qPCR-confirmed within 72 hours of imbibition.
Stage 02 · Root architecture
Phosphorus made available
Largest response between Bray-P 12 and 25 ppm.
Stage 03 · Stress window
Timed off the forecast
Applied after wilting, the measured effect is near zero.
Stage 04 · Residue
Stubble broken down faster
Only performs above 20% residue moisture.
Establishment
RhizoSet SC 04 goes on with the seed. Colonisation of the seminal roots is measurable by qPCR within 72 hours, and the stand count at 14 days is the first checkpoint of the programme.
Root architecture
TerraCore WG 12 is applied from planting to V6, where the mycorrhizal propagules still have young root tissue to colonise. Phosphorus uptake is confirmed by tissue test at V8.
Stress window
StomaGuard EC 07 is timed off the 10-day forecast rather than the calendar. Applied 3 to 7 days ahead of a heat or moisture event, it shortens the period of stomatal closure.
Residue and reset
ResiduePrime WP 03 goes onto moist stubble within three weeks of harvest, returning nitrogen earlier to the following crop and cutting the green bridge for stubble-borne disease.
What the trials show
Including the sites where nothing happened.
Evidence 01
Response distribution
Mean +4.1%, with a long flat tail.
Evidence 02
Split by soil texture
Light soils roughly double the mean response.
Evidence 03
Third-season effects
Aggregate stability and earlier N release.
The mean is not the story
Across 412 replicated strips the mean cereal response was +4.1%. The distribution matters more: 23% of sites showed no measurable difference, and 6% came in slightly below the untreated strip.
Soil type predicts most of it
Sandy loams with organic matter under 2.5% produced roughly double the mean response of heavy clays. We publish the split rather than the average, because the average sells better than it advises.
Third season, different question
Fields on the full programme for three seasons show aggregate stability and earlier nitrogen release from residue. Those effects are slower and harder to sell than a yield number, and they are the ones that persist.
Who we work with
We sell to operations that already measure their fields.
Colonize Bio is a business-to-business supplier. There is no consumer pack, no online checkout and no account to create — every programme is agreed directly with an agronomist.
Large-scale arable growers
Typically 150 ha and above in cereals, corn, canola or potatoes, with the drill and sprayer capacity to keep an untreated strip and the records to compare it.
Direct programme with a named agronomist
Farm management groups and cooperatives
Groups running multiple holdings under one agronomy plan, where a programme has to be defensible across blocks with different soil chemistry.
Framework agreement, block-level plans
Agronomy advisers and input distributors
Advisers and distribution partners in our nine registered territories who need label data, tank-mix compatibility figures and batch certificates before they recommend anything.
Registered states: MN, IA, IL, NE, KS, ND, SD, IN, OH
Supply-chain and sustainability programmes
Processors and buyers running scope 3 or soil-health programmes that need measured field evidence rather than a claim on a pack.
Trial-backed reporting
Who we are not for: growers looking for a single-pass replacement for fertiliser or fungicide, and anyone who cannot leave an untreated strip. In both cases the programme cannot be measured, so we decline it.
Where to start
Tell us the field, not the budget.
Every programme starts with a field assessment. If the conditions do not support a biological response, we say so before anything is supplied.
What the assessment covers
Structure
Compaction and drainage in the top 30 cm, because nothing biological fixes a pan.
Chemistry
pH, organic matter and Bray-P, which decide whether the strains survive and whether they help.
Measurement
Where the untreated strip goes, and who reads it at the end of the season.
Carried out by one of our field agronomists, in your territory, before anything is supplied.