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Meaningful and trustworthy partnerships

The SOBAC concept is not a claim, it is a body of evidence. Over more than thirty years it has been studied, measured and validated by leading research institutes, official agencies, independent laboratories and universities across Europe.

Why this matters

Independent science, not marketing

When you trial Bacteriosol or Bacteriolit on your land, you are adopting a method that the institutions below have put under controlled, comparative scrutiny. To help you place each one, we have added the closest UK equivalent, so the credibility translates clearly for British farmers.

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The sixteen partners

Who they are, and who they are equivalent to in the UK

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INRA, now INRAE

France
National agricultural research institute

France's National Institute for Agricultural Research, the largest publicly funded agricultural research organisation in Europe. INRA ran the long term manure evolution trial at Exmes that showed Bacteriolit halved dry matter losses.

UK equivalent: Rothamsted Research, Britain's flagship crop and soil science institute.
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AgroParisTech

France
Graduate institute of life and environmental sciences

The leading Paris graduate school for life, food and environmental sciences. Its experimental farm ran the heifer manure study and, alongside ADEME, measured the lower greenhouse footprint of Bacteriosol production.

UK equivalent: Cranfield University's soil and agrifood school, with the University of Reading's agriculture faculty.
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Chambres d'Agriculture, Agricultures et Territoires

France
Official network of agricultural chambers

France's statutory network of regional agricultural chambers, providing technical advice to farmers and running official field trials. The Meurthe et Moselle chambers conducted the wheat and malt barley trials on nitrogen reduction.

UK equivalent: AHDB, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.
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ITAVI

France
Technical institute for poultry farming

The French technical institute for poultry and livestock farming. ITAVI monitored the henhouse study that recorded an 82 percent reduction in nitrogen lost to the air when Bacteriolit was applied to litter.

UK equivalent: ADAS together with the research arm of the British Poultry Council.
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ADEME

France
Agency for ecological transition

France's national environment and energy management agency. Its measurements, made with AgroParisTech, established that producing Bacteriosol contributes well over twice less to the greenhouse effect than any nitrogen fertiliser.

UK equivalent: The Environment Agency, with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
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AGRA-OST

Belgium
Independent agronomic research centre

The independent Centre for Agronomic Research and Experimentation of Eastern Belgium, directed by Pierre Luxen, a European authority on organic matter. AGRA-OST ran the multi year meadow productivity and winter nitrogen preservation trials.

UK equivalent: NIAB, the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.
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Lara Europe Analyses

France
Accredited agronomic laboratory

An accredited soil and agronomic analysis laboratory in Toulouse. Lara Europe quantified the rise in stable humic acids and the reduction in nitrogen leaching achieved with the Bacteriolit concept.

UK equivalent: NRM Laboratories, part of the Cawood group.
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IFV, Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin

France
National vine and wine institute

France's national institute for the vine and wine sector, supporting the viticulture trials that underpin SOBAC's results across French wine regions.

UK equivalent: WineGB research, with the wine division of Plumpton College.
09

Universität Kassel

Germany
University faculty of organic agriculture

A German university whose Witzenhausen campus hosts one of Europe's foremost faculties of organic and ecological agriculture, lending international academic weight to the concept.

UK equivalent: The Organic Research Centre, with the Centre for Agroecology at Coventry University.
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Université Cadi Ayyad, FSSM Marrakech

Morocco
University faculty of sciences

The Faculty of Sciences Semlalia in Marrakech, contributing soil science and microbiology research that tested the concept under hot, dry climates.

UK equivalent: The soil science department at the University of Aberdeen.
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Université de Picardie Jules Verne

France
Public research university

A public research university in Amiens contributing to the soil microbiology research behind the SOBAC micro organism complex.

UK equivalent: A research intensive university such as the University of Nottingham.
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BIO-CRITT Limousin

France
Regional technology transfer centre

A regional innovation and technology transfer centre specialising in the valorisation and treatment of organic waste, helping move laboratory findings into farm practice.

UK equivalent: Innovate UK and its Knowledge Transfer Network.
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CIFACITA

France
Agricultural training and education

An agricultural vocational training body, helping carry the science into the next generation of farmers and advisers.

UK equivalent: Harper Adams University.
14

DRIRE and DREAL

France
State environmental and industrial regulator

The French regional state directorates for the environment, development and industrial regulation. It was the DREAL of Brittany that officially recognised Bacteriolit as a natural process for treating manure and slurry.

UK equivalent: The Environment Agency, as the statutory environmental regulator.
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Conseil Général de l'Aveyron and Région Midi-Pyrénées

France
Regional government

The regional government bodies of SOBAC's home territory in southern France, which have supported the development and field validation of the technology.

UK equivalent: A county council working with its Local Enterprise Partnership.
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OSÉO, now Bpifrance

France
National public investment bank

France's public investment bank, which supports innovation in small and medium enterprises. Its backing recognised SOBAC's work as a genuine innovation worth scaling.

UK equivalent: Innovate UK, with the British Business Bank.

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