LiveGrow™ Custom Formulation service dramatically reduces the time and cost of product development for our clients, allowing their microbes to reach commercialization in a timeframe never before possible.

Service Description

Standard microbial product formulation and scale-up R&D is complex, expensive, and time consuming. It can take years to complete and is usually only started once a microbe achieves success in the field. The reason for this is a complicated process of stabilizing a microbe for commercial scale up that varies based on the strain and its properties.

Our formulation process does not involve the standard practice of microbe isolation from media in order to create a stable product with extended shelf life. This innovation allows us to complete our formulation projects in under three months, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with this aspect of product development. This opens the door for our clients to fast-tack product formulation R&D to the field testing stage of the overall product development cycle, allowing them to reach commercialization as soon as they achieve successful field trial results.

LiveGrow™ Custom Formulation Service Benefits

  1. Superior Field Testing

    • Clients can use commercially formulated version of their microbe during field testing stage of product development

      • Benefit: clients can assess “real-world” efficacy results in the field

        • Currently lab prepared versions are used and these results often do not translate when the microbe is formulated into the final commercial product, requiring additional field trials and further extending the product development timeline. Testing LiveGrow™ commercially formulated microbes gives our clients the actual results their microbe can deliver to their customers, significantly reducing the product development timeline.

      • Benefit: Clients can asses “real-world” application rate necessary to achieve the desired efficacy

        • Since our clients test the actual product that will be sold in the market, they can compare different application rates during field testing, not after as is currently the case

  2. Superior Shelf Life Testing

    • Clients can begin shelf life assessment of their product at the beginning of field testing stage of product development

      • Benefit: This allows them to have a clear understanding of shelf life by the end of the field trial period

        • Successful microbial products need at least two years of field trial results. Starting shelf life study from day one, offers valuable insight to our clients about what they can claim on their product label

      • Benefit: Clients are able to test in the field one and two year old product that is stored at room temperature

        • This allows them to assess product performance in the field at different points throughout shelf life, delivering even more insight into product efficacy dynamics

      • Benefit: We test shelf life of each product formulation at three different temperature levels

        • This offers further analysis to our clients of their product’s shelf life dynamics in different real world conditions.

LiveGrow™ Formulated Products Feature:

1) Cost of goods up to 95% lower than products produced using existing fermentation & formulation technologies

2) Shelf life potential of over 24 months at room temperature for all types of microbes, including Gram negatives

3) High concentration formulation of 1E+8 – 1E+10 CFU/g

4) Metabolically active formulation that allows your strain to perform immediately after application

5) Significantly lower application rate vs dormant formulated products

6) Easy application using existing agricultural and turf equipment

7) Patent protected formulation that cannot be knocked off

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LiveGrow™ Custom Formulation Service Process:

1) Obtain microbial strain from client

2) Identify best growth parameters

3) Grow and formulate the microbe using LiveGrow™ Technology

4) Send commercially packaged product to the client for field testing

5) Conduct shelf life study of commercially packaged product at three temperature levels

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