Brabant Research has been in existence since 1987. We were primarily a research organization investigating biological and botanical phenomena. Our early work involved genetics and inherited disease resistance as a function of cellular fertility. Basically, did fertility programs affect the plant cell's ability to reproduce, faithfully, the bred disease resistance? From this investigation, we initiated a field-testing program gathering as much information from as many commercially available fertilizer products as possible. We worked year round, in every soil, species and climate possible, to understand how plants are affected by genetics, disease, fertilizers, climates, soil chemistry, insects, symbiotic relationships, soil organisms, etc. This work, along with human nutrition, will always be the center of our focus.
Early in this project, we recognized problems with commercially available fertilizer products. Namely, the presence and uptake of some of these products have a negative impact on both the plant and plant biological environment. Continuing research has shown that this is indeed the case, both plant and the environment are affected and the result is variable crop yields and variable nutrition. It has been our desire to work within the system rather than outside it, so information becomes available, cooperatively, to the major, and most minor, manufacturing companies. Our relationships with these companies continue and are starting to positively influence future product designs/formulas. Consistent results from Brabant programs are also beginning to help growers understand that many biological conversions are at the center of how plant physiology actually works. It is our intention to continue to build on our research and development from these and other projects.
In the end, the growers have to get results. In the end, the consumers have to get the benefits. We work with growers, at no cost, to help them understand exactly how and why reactions in their fields occur, not the "take a sample and see you later" approach, real answers to real problems. We do not accept grants or funds from manufacturers, preferring instead to be able to build programs recommending products that actually work.
Truth first, always. The more work we do, the better we understand, the easier to build upon that work, the more we wish to work, the more we work. Neither the left nor the right, it is the middle of the road that produces the best of all possible worlds.
Brabant: Feeding the plants that feed you. ™