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Field data

The sequencing behind the claims.

Every number RAD Microbes publishes about a field comes from soil that was sequenced, with the raw sample kept where anyone can open it. This is where those reports live.

How we publish

Treated ground against control ground, on the same farm, in the same season

If you are new to this, start with what regenerative agricultural development actually means, which explains the practice and uses the corn trial below as its evidence.

Microbial claims are easy to make and hard to check. Ours are made by 16S rRNA sequencing of soil from a treated area and an adjacent control area, run by an independent laboratory, with the raw sample record linked from every report so the analysis can be inspected rather than taken on trust.

What is measured and what is projected are labelled separately. A shift in the microbial population is a measurement. A fertiliser saving or a yield gain inferred from that shift is a projection, and it is written as one until a harvest says otherwise.

Reports

Published field data

Agriculture · corn · Prosper, Texas

Microbial application in corn cultivation, 2025

Two acres treated with a Bacillus consortium plus reduced NPK, set against adjacent control acres on standard fertiliser alone. Soil sampled 13 August 2025 and analysed by 16S rRNA sequencing.

133%More ammonia oxidisers
786%More nitrite oxidisers
179%More filamentous bacteria
~50%Lower pathogen load
Read the report Download PDF Issued 12 October 2025
Sampled 13 August 2025

Contamination · six completed programmes

Hydrocarbon bioremediation field results

Total petroleum hydrocarbons cut from tens of thousands of mg/kg to under one thousand, treated in place with no excavation and no landfill. Before and after figures for each site.

In progress

Fifty acre expansion, multi-season

The corn trial is being scaled from two acres to fifty, testing varying microbial doses against different NPK levels to find where the input reduction stops paying. Yield, soil nutrients and microbial stability are being tracked across seasons. Results will be published here.