Case Studies

Through farmer-led trials and our own on-farm research, we’ve built a database of case studies demonstrating the success of AEA’s programs across a broad variety of crop types.

Crop	Key Achievements
Almonds	40% reduction in water use, 70% reduction in pesticide applications
Apples	99th percentile storage quality
Blueberries	5x increase in tonnage on a problem block
Citrus	14% reduction in per-acre costs
Cherries	$2k/acre revenue boost; eliminated bacterial canker
Cherries	89% improvement in Trunk Cross Sectional Area of young trees
Cotton + Accelerate™	10x+ ROI

We have a number of field trials currently underway and will update this page as more studies are published.

Cherry grower Mike Omeg ran a trial comparing AEA programs side-by-side with his conventional management programs on a number of blocks, each with different management objectives.

Key achievements:
• $2000 (13%) increase in revenue per acre from increased fruit size alone
• Saved a problem block from bulldozing; cheaper than the cost of replacement
• Eliminated bacterial canker infestation after 3 years
• 4x yield increase on infected block

You can watch Mike Omeg give a tour of the infected block after it recovered here.

We performed a field trial that tested various rates of AEA’s nutritional product Accelerate™ when applied to cotton at three stages of growth, on an otherwise conventional management program. The goal was to determine the rate and timing of an Accelerate application to deliver the most return on investment.

Key takeaways:
• Product costs as low as $6.40 per acre delivered a 10x ROI
• All 13 trial variations delivered a yield increase over the control
• Earlier applications–at the pinhead square stage–gave the most ROI: up to 11.5x

This trial shows the potential of Accelerate to be a very cost-effective option for cotton growers to improve profitability, even with no other changes to their management practices.