It started with a simple question: could we detect crop disease in the air before farmers could see it?
Spornado began with a project to detect late blight in potato using a rugged field sampler paired with molecular analysis. That first project proved something larger: biological signals in the air could become useful agricultural data.
One crop. One disease problem.
A multidisciplinary team of growers, engineers, plant pathologists and microbiologists developed and tested the original Spornado sampler for real field conditions.
A growing pathogen-monitoring network.
Spornado has expanded across crops, geographies and customer types, with more than 1,500 samplers deployed in 25 countries and molecular testing across 35 pathogen targets.
Earlier, richer disease intelligence.
Today we are building on that deployment base to turn repeated pathogen observations into more predictive, proactive crop-protection intelligence.
What began as a one-crop detection project has become a global source of airborne pathogen data.