BPIA Welcomes New Members:

Greenberg Traurig

Greenberg Traurig's (GT) Washington DC Environmental group brings together high-level legal, legislative, and regulatory professionals to support the pesticide industry. Our pesticide work includes registering new biopesticide products. In addition, we provide data compensation estimates, registration review task force management, and pesticide-related litigation and arbitration representation. We regularly advise on federal and state PFAS regulations, including those impacting the pesticide industry. GT also coordinates advocacy related to specific compounds, risk assessments, and emerging regulatory target compounds. In coordination with our offices throughout the United States and globally, we assist clients with state-specific and international regulatory issues, seeking to accomplish our clients’ goals consistently across jurisdictions.                

Stone Environmental, Inc.

Stone Environmental, Inc. (Stone) is a small, 100% employee-owned environmental science and engineering firm located in Montpelier, Vermont. Founded in 1992, our mission is to provide tools, information, and analyses to help our clients solve complex environmental challenges with integrity, expertise, and innovation. We bring together over 60 scientists, engineers, project managers, and foundation staff with diverse backgrounds and skills—and a shared commitment to excellence, creativity, and accountability through employee ownership. Our capabilities include environmental assessment and remediation, water resources management, environmental planning and policy development, community outreach, environmental modeling, and geospatial analysis, data visualization, and application development.

pHocas, LLC

pHocas LLC is a privately-owned consulting company specializing in formulation development, innovation, strategy development, and purchasing optimization.  Extensive experience in the specialty chemicals, surfactants and agrochemicals space enables pHocas to assist you throughout your business.  Proprietary developed tools and processes help to optimize your business while educating your teams for long term impact.  pHocas can assist you through the ideation process to the commercialization process to the eventual marketing and sale of your goods or service.    

Integrity BioChem

Integrity BioChem’s Agriculture Division develops high-performance, bio-based surfactant technologies designed to meet the evolving demands of modern crop production. We partner with agricultural formulators and manufacturers to deliver cost-effective, scalable solutions that enhance the performance of pesticides, fertilizers, biologicals, and specialty formulations. Our non-fermentation production platform enables reliable global supply, competitive pricing, and consistent quality without sacrificing sustainability. Produced from industrial by-products through a zero-waste manufacturing process, our surfactants are biodegradable, plant-safe, and compatible across a broad range of crop protection and nutrition systems. From in-tank adjuvants to in-can pesticide formulations, foliar and soil applications, and turf and soilless media solutions, Integrity BioChem helps customers improve efficacy, simplify formulation, and meet increasing environmental standards. We are committed to delivering practical innovation, combining performance, supply security, and responsible chemistry to support growers, formulators, and the future of agriculture.

Micrutalis

Micrutalis focuses on supporting startups and small crop protection businesses navigate the process of product performance trials placement and coordination, product registration, and strategic product placement.  The company's mission statement is "Advancing Crop Protection Through Research and Development"

Intertek Assuris

Bringing innovative biological and bio-based products to market requires more than scientific excellence, it demands strategic regulatory insight across multiple jurisdictions. Intertek Assuris supports companies developing microbial pest control agents, microbial fertilizers, intergeneric organisms, animate products of biotechnology, new chemicals, and more with global notification and registration strategies in key markets worldwide. We help organizations navigate complex approval pathways efficiently by developing robust regulatory dossiers, managing amendments and renewals, and identifying opportunities for read-across and waiver arguments that can reduce unnecessary testing requirements. We are well-equipped to develop expert reviews of the microbiological/molecular genetics literature, interpret genomics and molecular genetics data, and provide bioinformatics analysis for risk assessment. Our team places, evaluates, and monitors safety and efficacy studies to ensure submissions are scientifically sound and regulator-ready. Beyond product approvals, we provide ongoing global chemical management support, including regulatory surveillance, interpretation, reporting obligations, and proactive risk assessment and management planning to strengthen product sustainability and long-term compliance. We also deliver comprehensive hazard communication services, including globally aligned Safety Data Sheets and labeling support, consumer chemical labeling expertise across Canada, the United States, and the EU, and regulatory guidance for dangerous goods transportation. Intertek Assuris is a global network of scientists, engineers, and regulatory specialists who help organizations navigate complex scientific, environmental, health, safety, quality, and compliance challenges throughout the value chain. Our industry-agnostic sustainability, quality, and safety solutions complement our regulatory expertise, providing systemic, risk-based assurance that helps you reduce risk, accelerate global market access, promote health and safety, and protect the environment, so your innovations can move forward with confidence.  

Janus Agricultural Solutions

Janus Agricultural Solutions is a regulatory toxicology and strategic advisory consultancy founded on 30 years of crop protection industry, governmental, NGO, and trade association expertise spanning synthetic pesticides, biologicals, and emerging agricultural technologies. Founded by Erik R. Janus, the firm specializes in EPA/FIFRA regulatory strategy, biopesticide registration, ESA Section 7 compliance, state regulatory navigation, and technical risk assessment for crop protection and plant health companies. Janus Ag serves biologicals developers, formulation innovators, and specialty crop protection companies navigating the complex intersection of regulatory science, market access, and sustainable agriculture. The consultancy combines deep regulatory affairs mastery with advanced intelligence systems to deliver strategic guidance that opens pathways others don't see—helping clients anticipate regulatory shifts, optimize product positioning, and accelerate commercialization timelines. Core services include fractional regulatory affairs support, dossier preparation & submission, , label optimization, toxicological and safety evaluation, personalized intelligence, and cross-border regulatory harmonization for US, Canadian, and international markets.

Charles Aris Executive Search

Charles Aris Executive Search has been business for over 57 years, Charles Aris helps organizations meet their most ambitious growth goals through retained executive search, contingent recruiting and transaction services. Our Agriculture & Food practice brings decades of industry experience to specifically placing world-class talent within the agriculture and food value chain.
 

California Agriculture Science

California Agriculture Science is a full-service research operation serving the Sacramento Valley, Northern San Joaquin Valley, and the Salinas Valley. We partner with local commercial farmers to conduct field trials under real-world conditions, ensuring accurate test results. Our services include testing seeds and soil treatments, precision planting, biological, synthetic, and organic products. By collaborating closely with farmers, we evaluate innovative agricultural solutions to meet real life challenges. At CA Ag Science we conduct research across a diverse range of crops. In Northern California we focus on permanent crops such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios, grapes, citrus, cherries, peaches, olives, and dried plums. Our row crop research spans tomato, corn, cucurbits, wheat, rice, sunflower, and beans, with crop rotations enhancing soil health and resistances management. In the Costal Salinas Valley, the “Salad Bowl of the World,” we work with short season crops like strawberries, broccoli, cauliflower, and leafy greens. Partnering with commercial growers across these regions allows us to deliver precise results for a wide variety of pests and agricultural challenges.

S&F AgriTech

S&F AgriTech supports biological and sustainable agricultural innovation through field trial management, product development support, performance assessment, and AI-enabled decision tools. The company helps emerging and established agritech firms translate promising technologies into scalable, real-world solutions.

Belchim Canada

Belchim Canada has been a proud supporter of Canadian agriculture for over 25 years, providing a diverse range of crop protection solutions.  Belchim Canada is a subsidiary of Certis Belchim, a global leader in crop protection solutions.  Belchim Canada brings forward a broad and innovative portfolio of products based on R&D from around the globe, as well as right here in Canada. Belchim Canada is a leading provider of crop protection, nutritional, and management solutions innovated with the diverse needs of Canadian growers in mind. Headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, Belchim Canada specializes in serving fruit & vegetable producers, field crop & cereal farmers, greenhouse operations, the turf & golf industry, and forestry. Through a strong commitment to research and collaboration with key industry partners, Belchim Canada ensures its products deliver superior performance and meet evolving market demands.

Pluton Biosciences, Inc.

Pluton Biosciences is developing innovative crop-nutrition solutions built with natural, sunlight-powered microbes. Our mission is to efficiently deliver nutrients to plants and soil, using processes that integrate seamlessly with current farming practices. We aim to give growers practical, sustainable tools that reduce reliance on synthetic inputs and support productivity and profitability.

Hiltz BioAg Consulting

Hiltz BioAg Consulting is focused on assisting companies navigate the research, development, competitive differentiation, and global registration of plant biostimulants.  The company is incorporated in Nova Scotia Canada and is led by David Hiltz, a biochemist and recognized technical expert in algal extracts and plant biostimulants.

With almost 30 years of Technology and Regulatory expertise and leadership under his belt, David has led teams spanning fundamental research, process and product development, and regulatory and commercial science.  In his previous role, David most recently led a Global team focused on registration of seaweed-based plant biostimulants around the world.  Achievements included registrations in more than 50 countries and obtaining one of the first CE registrations of a plant biostimulant under the newly published EU Fertilizer Products Regulation.

David’s contributions to the biostimulant industry have been recognized with election to the Board of Directors of both the European Biostimulant Industry Council (EBIC) and the Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA).

Straticide Consulting, LLC

Straticide Consulting, LLC is a regulatory consulting company started by current BPIA Board of Directors member, Megan Priest. Straticide Consulting focuses on assisting pesticide manufacturers register pesticides with EPA, increase their marketability via various types of amendments, as well as stay within EPA's regulations via reporting requirements and other tasks. Straticide Consulting has over 17 years of experience in the pesticide industry with 15 of those years as a consultant. The company focuses on biopesticides, antimicrobials, and conventional pesticides.

Invaio Sciences

Invaio Sciences, a Flagship Pioneering company, is a bioplatform company accelerating the leap to nature-positive agriculture. The company builds on advances in human health and digital innovation to develop biological technologies for crop health, enabling farmers to both improve yields and use more natural crop protection solutions. Invaio is addressing consumer demands and unlocking radical benefits for farmers and the environment, leaving every acre better today and for generations to come.

Biotrop

Biotrop is a Brazilian biological agrochemical company with a global reach, driven by innovation and a commitment to a more sustainable future. It is part of the BioFirst Group, a global leader and pure player in biological crop protection and nutrition, present in more than 40 countries. Specialized in biopesticides, biostimulants, biofertilizers, and inoculants, BIOTROP focuses on major row crops such as soybeans, corn, and sugarcane. The company is committed to delivering advanced biological and natural technologies that address agriculture’s key challenges, setting new standards in sustainable farming through innovative biological control and integrated pest management solutions.

Stratovation Group

Stratovation Group helps innovative ag companies efficiently go to market and grow through research, consulting, and marketing services.

Neil DeStefano Consulting, LLC

Business consulting services focused on portfolio expansion, business development, and strategy for biologicals and synthetics.  I act as a bridge for companies, connecting them with the right partners, guiding new technologies from concept to launch, and ensuring every decision is grounded in commercial reality.  Please see the BIOLOGICALS page on my website.

Neil DeStefano, Principal

Verdant Robotics

At Verdant Robotics, we’re redefining agriculture with cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and robotics to create exciting opportunities for innovation and impact.  Our mission is to leverage advanced technology to enable farmers to grow more with less. We’re dedicated to advancing agriculture through technical leadership. We empower growers with products that save time, cut costs, and boost yields—making farming more profitable, efficient, and sustainable.  We envision a future where increased productivity and a sustainable food supply go hand-in-hand, enabled by intelligent tools powered by AI and robotics. Through relentless innovation, we're leading agriculture into a new era of precision and productivity.

Inari

Inari is the SEEDesign™ company, using new breeding technology to push the boundaries of what is possible by designing nature-positive seeds for a more sustainable food system. A combination of AI-enabled predictive design and a cutting-edge multiplex gene editing toolbox enables Inari to unlock the full potential of seed and advance critical solutions with broad applications for growing more food with fewer resources – providing real benefits to farmers, our planet and the global population.