Computed, Not Claimed.

When you set up a trial, the platform calculates how much nitrogen to reduce on the treatment strip. This is the “Trial N” — the amount of synthetic nitrogen allocated to the strip where EL-I Tech's biological product is applied.

Trial N = max(Standard N − Soil Reduction, Minimum Floor)

Trial N = max(210 − 80, 10) = 130 kg/ha

This is the core scientific engine. After harvest, Calculator B processes yield data from both the treatment strip (with EL-I Tech product) and the control strip (standard practice) to quantify exactly how much nitrogen the biological product contributed.

Step 1: Moisture Adjustment

Raw yield measurements are adjusted to standard moisture content so comparisons are fair regardless of when or how the grain was weighed.

Adjusted Yield = Measured Yield × (100 − Measured Moisture%) / (100 − Standard Moisture%)

Step 2: Yield Comparison

Yield Increase (kg/ha) = Treatment Yield − Control Yield
Yield Increase (%)     = (Yield Increase / Control Yield) × 100

Step 3: Nitrogen Harvested

Converts the harvested grain into the amount of nitrogen it contains. The relationship between protein content and nitrogen is a well-established agronomic constant.

N Harvested (kg/ha) = Adjusted Yield × Protein Fraction / Jones Factor

Step 4: EL-I Tech N Contribution

This is the number that proves biological nitrogen fixation works. It isolates the nitrogen that can only have come from EL-I Tech's product by subtracting everything else.

Soil N Implied        = Control N Harvested − Standard N Input
Expected Trial N      = Trial N Input + Soil N Implied
EL-I Tech N Contribution = max(0, Trial N Harvested − Expected Trial N)

N Reduction           = Standard N − Trial N (kg/ha)
Input Savings         = N Reduction × N Fertiliser Price per kg
Output Gain           = Yield Increase × Crop Price per kg
Combined Benefit      = Input Savings + Output Gain

Control Gross Margin  = (Control Yield × Crop Price) − (Standard N × N Price)
Trial Gross Margin    = (Trial Yield × Crop Price) − (Trial N × N Price)
Profit Increase (%)   = (Combined Benefit / Control Gross Margin) × 100

This is how the 15–75% revenue uplift per product line is calculated. Each trial's profit increase is computed individually from its own yield data and local commodity prices on the day of harvest.

Live commodity prices are fetched daily at 06:00 UTC from two sources:

Nitrogen fertiliser pricing: UAN-32 (Urea Ammonium Nitrate, 32% N content). Price per kg of pure N = UAN price per tonne / (1000 × 0.32).

The platform uses Sentinel-2 L2A satellite imagery (European Space Agency, free and open data, 10m resolution, 5-day revisit cycle) to track eight vegetation indices.

Biomass & Growth

Chlorophyll & Nitrogen

Water & Moisture

The platform automatically converts between metric and imperial based on your region.

South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand use metric. United States uses imperial.