AGROCHEMICAL FIELD TRIALS - Used Laboratory Equipment and New Lab Instrument Supplies, UK

AGROCHEMICAL FIELD TRIALS

Our Client is a GLP-compliant contract research organisation established in 1989, employing nearly fifty scientists. Our client specialises in residue analysis including independent laboratory validations and method development, animal transfer studies, agrochemical analysis, ecotoxicology and pharmaceutical analysis. Our client's experience in agrochemicals is extensive and includes field residues, dissipation studies, analytical sciences, environmental sciences, product chemistry, operator exposure, dislodgeable foliar residues and re-entry studies. Our client's team is very experienced and enthusiastic and has a successful track record of generating quality data on time.

Field trials of agrochemicals are undertaken through our alliance partners in Europe and in North America. The field stations used are all GLP-compliant and provide access to a wide range of crops, targets and soil types in diverse environmental conditions. Highly experienced staff carry out trials generating data to support agrochemical registrations.

Services Available:

Crops: annual field crops such as cereals and potatoes; perennial crops such as deciduous fruit; protected crops particularly vegetables; and ornamentals.
Weed targets: drilled herbicide screens; perennial weeds; natural populations.
Disease targets: all key diseases including potato late blight.
Insect targets: key soil and foliar insects and non-entomological pests including mites and nematodes.
Beneficial organisms: impact on ground beetles, bees and earthworms.
Test types: efficacy, application, selectivity, rainfastness, UV stability, drift studies, phytotoxicity, plant residues, uptake and movement.

Facilities/Equipment Available:

Extensive sites with offices/modern well-equipped laboratories.
Range of agricultural and small plot field equipment.
Glasshouses/plastic tunnels for research work and protected crop studies.

Benefits:

• Complete Study Management to deliver reports tailored to meet the specific needs of individual clients.
• GLP-compliance and a high level of expertise in trials design, method development, conduct of field studies, data analysis and reporting.
• Supporting infrastructure including meeting room and car park at field stations to cater for field demonstrations/visits.
• Professionalism, technical excellence and delivery orientation.