A company that supplies products and services to help farmers improve crop yields wanted to conduct depth interviews with corn farmers and agronomists in Illinois and Iowa. The research explored the opportunity to market new a digital solution deisgned to optimise the use of fertilisers in arable farming. The proposed product used satellite imagery to identify how much fertiliser is required on different fields or sections of fields. It was important for the research that the farmers who were interviewed represented a range of different sizes of farms, including some very large farms of 5000 acres or more.
We recruited over 40 farmers and advisers in two phases of the research. These represented four different sizes of farm:
We also assisted with planning the travel schedules for each group of interviewers as the drove round rural Illinois and Iowa to conduct ethnographic interviews on last around 90 minutes on working farms.
FieldworkHub is a smart, collaborative, patient research partner. They place far greater emphasis on quality and expertise in their deliverables than charging for every nickel and dime. They react well to unanticipated needs and are proven problem solvers in the complex world of quant and qual research. Their scope and capabilities are extensive and outshine other players in the category.
FieldworkHub did a great job with this recruitment. We always do research with very specific groups of medical specialists, so it’s not easy to find suitable respondents. FieldworkHub provided high quality services, which made it possible for us to gather important insights from four completely different markets.
