2025 Year-End Reflection

As this year comes to a close and a new one begins, we took some time to reflect on the people that make up our community. Our team of course, but also the extended network of distributors, educators, and growers upon which we depend.

This has not been an easy year for agriculture — or for anyone working closely with living systems. Weather has been unpredictable. Markets have been volatile. Inputs have been scrutinized, rethought, and in many cases reimagined. And yet, through all of it, one thing has remained constant: the creativity, resilience, and steady resolve of the farmers we work with.

Quite simply, we would not be here without you.

At its core, Impello has always been a R&D company. A lot of companies say the same, and try to prove it by showing off fancy labs and complicated products. But to Impello, R&D is much simpler. R&D is about walking the walk. It's about creating products that actually work in the real world, driven by one very basic idea: We can always do better, but only if we try. That's the only reason R&D exists – to improve. Not for our sake, but for yours; you’re the ones using our products. Our R&D efforts are only worth it if it results in good products that you – the grower – believe in.

For us, this means our work has only just begun when a product leaves the lab, because to be truly “ready” it has to be useable and make grower life easier in the realities of fields, orchards, greenhouses, or growing seasons that refuse to behave as predicted. 

Biological products are powerful, but they are not always 1:1 replacements for traditional inputs. They ask different questions. They reward different management choices. And they require partners willing to explore how biology fits into real-world farming systems.

That spirit of discovery lives with our growers.

This summer, as we visited farms and fields, we were struck again and again by the long view so many of you hold — building programs not just for this season’s yield, but for soil that remains alive, productive, and resilient decades from now. You reminded us that land is not just a substrate, but a living system, and that farming is as much about stewardship as it is about harvest.

Because of that shared mindset, we want to extend an open invitation: if you are a grower interested in running discovery trials — trials designed not just to prove, but to learn — we would love to work with you. These collaborations are how better tools, better programs, and better questions are born. If this sounds like you, please reach out to info@impellobio.com and let us know who you are, what you grow, and what agronomic challenges you are most concerned about. 

As we look ahead to the coming year, we’re also thinking deeply about uncertainty — because farming teaches us, again and again, that uncertainty is not the exception. It is the rule.

Anyone can promise certainty. Anyone can claim guarantees. But nature does not sign contracts, and farming has always been an exercise in risk management rather than risk elimination. Instead of selling silver bullets, our goal is to build a toolbox to contend with this uncertainty:

• tools that help create crop systems designed for resilience — systems that expect stress, anticipate disruption, and absorb shock with minimal loss to productivity

• and tools that allow growers to respond adaptively when the unexpected arrives, as it inevitably will

This philosophy is what has guided the evolution of our portfolio, including new additions like Recruit™ Biofertilizer and Consequence™ Biopesticide— tools designed to strengthen plant systems, support adaptive responses, and add flexibility rather than rigidity to crop programs. They are not answers on their own, but parts of a larger, living strategy. 

And finally, as the year turns, we want to say thank you — not just to our internal team, though we are deeply grateful for their talent, curiosity, and commitment — but to our extended company: the growers, distributors, and collaborators who help us discover what the next evolution of agriculture can look like.

Your willingness to experiment.
Your patience with complexity.
Your courage to try something new.

That is what makes this work possible.

We’re grateful to be learning alongside you, and we look forward to continuing that work together in the year ahead. Let us know what you need, here. 

With sincere thanks,

The Impello Biosciences Team