Field Research & Applied Studies for the Crop Protection Industry
Modern agriculture relies on a wide variety of crop protection
chemicals to grow the high-quality crops that feed the nation.
Concerns regarding the safety of the nation's water resources
have prompted ever-increasing scrutiny of the compounds applied
to agricultural fields. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
as mandated by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA), has developed a registration program for these compounds
that requires extensive laboratory and field testing prior to
registration. The goal of this testing is to ensure that compounds
used to produce the nation's food supply are safe and will not
degrade the environment. Summit contributes to this goal by conducting
comprehensive and detailed field environmental fate and transport
studies.
Capabilities
Our scope of services includes the following types of studies:
- Prospective and Retrospective Groundwater Monitoring Studies;
- Field Dissipation Studies;
- Runoff Studies;
- Accumulation Studies on Rotational or Irrigated Crops;
- Drift Field Evaluation and Volatility Studies; and
- Unsaturated and saturated zone fate and solute transport modeling.
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These are complex studies of the physical and chemical environment
at carefully selected field sites, and are conducted following
EPA Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs). The Summit team includes
geologists, hydrogeologists, soil scientists, agricultural specialists,
environmental chemists, environmental scientists, project managers,
quality assurance specialists, and field and administrative staff
with significant experience in groundwater monitoring and related
studies. Summit takes great pride in its GLP research activities
and will continue to be at the forefront of introducing innovative
and practical technologies into field research and applied studies.
