Agricultural companies often undertake qualifying R&D when developing or improving products, growing methods, production processes, and agricultural technologies. We help identify and substantiate this work across experimentation, testing, process optimization, and performance improvement.
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R&D in Agriculture
Agricultural businesses frequently invest in the development and improvement of products, processes, cultivation methods and production systems to increase yield, efficiency, quality, consistency and resource utilization.
This work can involve significant technical challenges where existing agricultural practices, equipment or production methods cannot readily achieve the required level of performance, reliability, scalability or environmental control.
Where these challenges are addressed through systematic experimentation, testing and iterative development, the related agricultural activity and associated expenditure may be eligible for the U.S. R&D Tax Credit.
Areas of Potential Qualifying Activity
Qualifying R&D can arise throughout the development, testing and improvement of agricultural products, processes and production systems. Common areas of potential qualifying activity include:
Development of new or improved cultivation, growing and production methods.
Design and improvement of irrigation, environmental control and farm systems.
Development and testing of crop varieties, formulations and treatment methods.
Integration of sensing, monitoring, automation and precision agriculture technologies.
Improvements to yield, quality, consistency and resource efficiency.
Our Role
Our specialist team works with you in accessing, validating and quantifying qualifying activity within your business.
Understand
Our specialist technical team works directly with your staff to understand how innovation takes place across the business.
Identify
We examine the technical challenges encountered, the development work undertaken and the decisions made throughout your projects.
Quantify
We work with your team to connect those activities to the relevant costs.
Substantiate
We prepare clear, robust technical and financial documentation designed to support the Research and Development Tax Credit claim.