Apical bridges the gap between farmers, academic institutions, industry partners and socially conscious consumers by using data science to implement regenerative organic cropping systems. With 20 years of experience in the organic crop production, Apical customers can access agronomic expertise that is truly interested in the long-term health of their operation.
The Apical Team
Apical Crop Science LLC is an agricultural technology company that improves crop performance and sustainability through the implementation of science and technology.
Who is Apical
Our Vision
Our Mission
To improve crop production globally using regenerative organic production techniques, modern analytical methods, and smart data management.
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To improve crop production globally using regenerative organic production techniques, modern analytical methods, and smart data management.
Why Use The Apical Lab?
Apical uses advanced scientific methods and cutting-edge equipment to thoroughly analyze your soil, crops, and irrigation water, down to the molecular level.
Apical’s analyses, assays, summaries, charts, and graphs give customers true insight into the health and future potential of everything customers grow, from the ground up.
Rapid Results
Your reports will be available to you within 24-48 hours. Samples are processed on the next business day after they are received and reported as soon as the analysis is completed.
Comparison Sampling
By analyzing a plants old and new growth, shallow/deep soil, source vs. field water, or different soil analysis methods simultaneously and comparing the results in a single report, the contrasted nutrient levels can be used to identify and then overcome obstacles to optimal crop nutrition.
Effective Target Ranges
Apical’s Target Ranges for over 50 crops provide timely advice to prevent overfertilization and quickly identify deficiencies and excesses. Detailed grouping and data representation of how your crop compares to optimal levels for its growth stage, soil type, or water system.
Recommendations at the Click of a Button
With your Apical account, you have the option to request a detailed recommendation for any report that has been paid for or ordered. Recommendations are made by an American Society of Agronomy (ASA) certified crop advisor and have a positive success rate. Recommendations are usually available within 1-2 business days or less from the time the request is made.
Visual Representation of Comparison Differences
Nutrient tie-ups, leaching, and contamination are automatically revealed to the grower or agronomist in font changes, highlights, and graphical formats.
Nutrient Allocation Chart
The sum total of all nutrients divided among all analytes processed and represented is in a pie chart. You will have a visual representation of what the crop is consuming as a fraction of the whole.
About The Founder
Apical’s Leaf Extract Analysis is the most advanced form of plant sap analysis on the market today. This effective way to monitor plant nutritional stress determines exactly what nutrients are in excess, balanced or lacking so they can be managed with precision and ease.
Our Founder and President, David Knaus grew up steeped in the organic method during the 1980s and has been an active participant in the transitioning of thousands of acres into organic production in the last 20 years.
Tens of thousands of lab samples have proven that proper leaf, soil, and water analysis encourages the grower to implement soil and plant health-improving solutions. By running a leaf or soil analysis and requesting a recommendation with Apical, growers automatically gain access to eco-friendly advice and solutions.
How does leaf extract analysis differ from leaf tissue analysis?
Building Communities
The grower-consumer relationship and the re-localization of food systems offer a major opportunity to revitalize rural communities and build rural economics. It is the linkage between urban and rural relationships that Apical believes can restore healthy and vitality to people globally.
The Apical laboratory and database have proven capable of delivering methods that can improve crop characteristics, increasing the health of consumers globally.
