Agriculture demands models that isolate treatment effects from spatial field variability and environmental noise. Traditional A/B testing fails when every plot is different. Bayesian spatial models decompose what the treatment did from what the field was already doing.

Healthcare, pharma, and agriculture all need to explain their predictions, not just make them.

Work in This Space

Indigo Ag

Spatial Gaussian Process modeling to isolate treatment effects of microbes on plant yield. Multi-year engagement from initial project to production deployment.

Spatial GPField TrialsCausal Bayesian

Syngenta

Bayesian code review for XC50 assay modeling, relative potency models, and hierarchical GLM binomial models. Two full SLA cycles delivered.

Dose-ResponseSLA CoachingAgrochemical

Trusted By

  • Indigo Ag
  • Syngenta

What We Solve

Field Trial Analysis

Isolating treatment effects of microbial additives, fertilizers, and seed genetics from spatial field variability using Bayesian causal models with spatial Gaussian Processes.

Crop Yield Modeling

Probabilistic yield prediction under uncertainty. Zero-inflated log-normal distributions for bad crop years. Hierarchical across farms and regions with weather covariates.

Spatial Gaussian Process Modeling

Decomposing spatial variation in yields to separate field-level signal from noise. Treatment effect plus spatial effects plus noise decomposition.

Crop Protection Research

Bayesian dose-response models for chemical efficacy and XC50 assay modeling, supporting agrochemical R&D pipelines at global scale.

Why Bayesian

Why Bayesian for Agriculture & AgTech?

  • Field trials are expensive — make them count — Partial pooling across farm and region hierarchy extracts maximum signal from limited experimental data. No need for massive sample sizes.
  • Spatial confounding solved — Purpose-built spatial GP models decompose field-level variation, isolating what the treatment did from what the field was already doing.
  • Uncertainty is the output — Posterior distributions over treatment effects let agronomists and investors understand the range of plausible outcomes, not just a point estimate.

“The invaluable additional expertise proved instrumental in validating and improving our initial prototype. Working together for the past two years, we continued building and iterating on models for treatment effect estimation in agriculture.”

Manu Martinet
Lead Data Scientist, Indigo Ag

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