Partner With Us
Collaborate with us to build shared agricultural data infrastructure that enables science-based decision-making across systems.
Partnership Opportunities
We work with organizations across the agricultural sector—from data holders to research institutions to regional farming networks—to build the shared infrastructure that makes soil data accessible, trustworthy, and actionable.
Data Partnerships
Help us build the data infrastructure agriculture needs to deliver impact at scale.
Critical soil and management data sits scattered across thousands of private databases—invisible to the researchers, farmers, and markets that need it. This limits everyone's ability to evaluate how different management practices perform across regions and systems, and to inform more sustainable agricultural decisions.
We're building a secure, neutral platform where data can be aggregated without competitive risk—creating insights no single organization could generate alone.
Researchers validate findings at industry scale—across thousands of farms instead of dozens of research plots. Farmers make informed decisions through accurate predictions and compare their results to meaningful regional baselines. Markets reward practice change with verified outcomes and policymakers target incentives where they have the greatest impact. The entire sector moves forward together, faster.
This only works if data holders participate.
- • Analytical laboratories with soil test results
- • Ag-tech companies with field and management data
- • CPGs working with grower networks
- • Farming organizations collecting member data
- • Research institutions with existing datasets
What you contribute: Existing soil and management data from your operations, clients, or research sites
- • Access to aggregated insights that inform strategic decisions
- • Contribute to public-good infrastructure benefiting the entire sector
- • Share data securely with a nonprofit neutral party—no competitive risk
- • Influence tool development and baselines that serve your stakeholders
As a nonprofit, we have no commercial interest in your competitive information. We aggregate data to create regional insights, never selling individual datasets. You control privacy settings and anonymization levels. Our data use policy ensures your information serves the public good without compromising business interests.
Current partners: EarthOptics, Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, American Farmland Trust, Stonyfield Organic, Agriculture Capital, Nature for Justice.
Contact us about data partnership opportunities.
Get in touchRegional Hubs
Host TSIP equipment and support your local farming community.
Regional Hubs provide physical locations where farming networks can access TSIP sampling equipment, receive training, and connect with technical support. This model brings our tools directly to where producers work.
Who this is for: Farming networks, agricultural organizations, universities, and extension offices with:
- • Physical space for equipment storage
- • Regular connection to local farming community
- • Interest in supporting soil data collection
What you provide: Space for TSIP equipment lending library and potential hosting of training sessions
- • Equipment access for your farmer network
- • Training and technical support from TSIP
- • Connection to broader soil health community
Current status: Program under development. Requirements and application process being finalized.
Contact us to express interest and discuss potential hub setup.
Get in touchResearch Collaboration
Access comprehensive datasets and collaborate on agricultural research.
We work with academic institutions and nonprofit research organizations to advance understanding of soil health, management practices, and agricultural outcomes. Our database provides researchers with field-scale data that would take decades to collect independently.
Who this is for: Universities, research nonprofits, and scientific institutions
- • Access TSIP's soil and management database for research
- • Become a Primary Research Organization with full database access
- • Joint research projects and co-authorship opportunities
- • Integration of your models with TSIP's Multi-Model Ensemble
Primary research organizations: Trusted academic and nonprofit partners with full database access. Current PROs: Covey Lab (Skidmore College), Basso Lab (Michigan State University).
Current status: PRO designation is currently by invitation. We're developing a formal application process for interested institutions.
Contact us to discuss research collaboration opportunities.
Get in touchSolar Soil Program
Join our DOE-funded partnership to quantify soil carbon impacts at solar facilities.
We partner with Argonne National Laboratory on the Ground-Mounted Solar and Soil-Related Ecosystem Services Project. This multi-year program studies how solar installations affect soil health, carbon storage, and ecosystem services.
Who this is for: Solar facility operators and developers
What you contribute: Soil data from your facilities (we can help with sampling design and analysis)
- • Research insights on soil health and carbon sequestration at your sites
- • Contribute to industry-wide understanding of solar facility ecosystem impacts
- • Access to anonymized data from participating facilities
- • Support from national lab scientists
Sign up at app.tsip.org and select "Solar Soil" as your program, or contact us with questions.
Support Our Work
Fund nonprofit data infrastructure that serves the entire agricultural sector.
As a science-driven nonprofit, we operate without commercial conflicts of interest—allowing us to serve as a trusted neutral party that aggregates data, develops tools, and shares insights for the public good.
- • Development and maintenance of the national soil database
- • Continued research and validation of the Multi-Model Ensemble
- • Free access to modeling tools and analytical platforms
- • Support for small and historically underserved farming communities
- • Expansion to new crops, regions, and management scenarios
Current supporters:
Contact us to discuss funding opportunities and organizational priorities.
Get in touchWork With Us
Join our team building soil data infrastructure and analytical tools that power science-based agricultural insights.
We're a small, mission-driven team combining soil science, data analysis, and partnerships to link agricultural practices with measurable outcomes.
See open positionsReady to collaborate?
Whether you're interested in data sharing, research, hosting a hub, or supporting our mission, we'd like to hear from you.