Where’s Your Trial Data? How to Keep It All in One Place

Vegetable seed companies pour millions into research, product development, and marketing new seed varieties through field trials. These trials are the lifeblood of innovation, testing everything from yield to disease resistance. But too often, the data from these trials—scores, photos, traits—gets lost in a shuffle of notebooks, spreadsheets, or forgotten files. When that happens, critical insights never reach the rest of the company, let alone growers, suppliers, or breeders. The result? Wasted resources and missed opportunities to bring better varieties to market.

So, where is all your trial data? And how do you keep it from vanishing? The answer is simple: bring every trial, evaluation, and photo into one centralized platform that your team can access anytime, anywhere. Here’s how SeedSense turns scattered trial data into a powerful tool for smarter decisions and faster results.

The Problem: Trial Data That’s Out of Sight and Out of Mind

Imagine this: Your team’s running a spinach trial in Salinas, meticulously scoring varieties for vigor and leaf quality. But your manager in Woodland has no idea the plot even exists—no one looped them in. Meanwhile, the sales team’s already hyping the trial to the grower, promising results that haven’t been fully captured. To top it off, your other product development lead lost their notebook with last year’s data on these same varieties, leaving you with no baseline to compare. Sound like a nightmare? It’s a reality for too many seed companies.

This disconnected approach creates real headaches:

• Missed Opportunities: A promising variety’s traits go unnoticed because the trial wasn’t tracked or shared properly.
• Wasted Resources: Time, money, and effort go into trials that end up as unused data on a spreadsheet, never informing decisions.
• Slow Decisions: Without a clear view of all trial data, selecting top varieties drags on, delaying commercialization.

Every seed company wants trials that deliver breakthroughs, but when data’s invisible or incomplete, you’re losing more than just insights—you’re losing potential. There’s a better way.

SeedSense: Your Single Source of Truth

SeedSense isn’t just software—it’s a game-changer for how seed companies manage trial data. Our cloud-based platform pulls every trial, evaluation, photo, and trait into one place, so you’re never left piecing together fragments. Here’s how it works:

• Centralized Storage: Capture every trial’s details—locations, scores, photos, crop traits—directly in SeedSense. No more hunting for lost notebooks or outdated files. Whether you’re in the field or the office, your data’s there when you need it.
• Real-Time Updates: Field teams can log observations on the go, using our mobile-friendly interface. That standout trait in your Salinas spinach plot? It’s photographed, scored, and visible to your team instantly—no gaps, no excuses.
• Organized for Action: SeedSense lets you track trial progress with task assignments, so everyone knows who’s handling what. Need someone to evaluate bolting resistance or snap a plot photo? Assign it, track it, done.

With SeedSense, your trial data isn’t just stored—it’s structured to keep your team aligned and your trials on track.

Teamwork Without the Headaches

Great trials depend on people working together, but coordinating teams shouldn’t feel like herding cats. SeedSense makes it easy for everyone—field staff, breeders, managers—to stay on the same page:

• Task Assignments: Assign specific jobs, like scoring plots or uploading photos, to keep work moving smoothly. Clear responsibilities mean fewer mix-ups and faster progress.
• Shareable Reports: Generate PDF reports or trial maps with a few clicks, ready to share with stakeholders. No more manual data entry or endless email chains—just clean, professional outputs that get everyone aligned.
• Cloud Access: Whether your team’s in Salinas, Woodland, or halfway across the globe, SeedSense’s cloud catalog ensures they’re all working from the same data. Review traits, check tasks, or pull reports from anywhere, anytime.

The result? A team that’s empowered to focus on what matters—evaluating varieties and making smart decisions—not piecing together missing data.

The Payoff: Faster Decisions, Better Varieties

When your trial data’s all in one place, the benefits stack up fast:

• Speed: Centralized data means you can analyze results and pick winners without waiting for straggling reports.
• Accuracy: Real-time entries and clear task tracking reduce errors, so you trust what you’re seeing.
• Impact: With a clear view of every trial, you’re better equipped to spot trends, refine breeding goals, and get top varieties to market sooner.

Using a centralized trials platform drives efficiency and unlocks more value from your trial data. That’s not just smarter workflow—it’s a competitive edge.

Stop Chasing Data. Start Using It.

Your trial data is too valuable to be lost in notebooks or buried in inboxes. SeedSense gives you a single, reliable system to capture, organize, and share every trial, evaluation, and photo, so your team can work smarter, not harder. Ready to see the difference? Book a Demo with SeedSense Today