On June 12, the Openfield program, led by Agrosolutions and its “living lab” Fermes Leader (InVivo group), gathered around a hundred agricultural and agri-food professionals on a 13-hectare platform in Essonne. Objective: to demonstrate, in the field, concrete solutions for more sustainable, high-performing, and resilient agriculture.
A Collaborative Approach to Rethinking Agricultural Practices
More than just an event, Openfield asserts itself as an immersive living lab dedicated to the third agricultural way. For five years, this initiative aims to objectify and disseminate sustainable practices, while supporting sectors in their ecological transition, from producer to industrialist.
The morning of the event featured a round table discussion between a major agri-food player (Mondelez) and a committed cooperative (Oxyane), highlighting the need for enhanced dialogue between agriculture and industry to foster sustainable agricultural models.
Conferences and Workshops to Realize Agroecological Ambitions
Participants first attended a series of conferences recalling the foundations of the Openfield program: experimenting, objectifying, and disseminating tomorrow’s agricultural practices. The stated ambition? To consolidate a third agricultural way, realistic and inclusive, capable of providing concrete answers for all types of agriculture, while integrating societal and environmental expectations… and improving farmers’ incomes.
Economic analysis workshops then allowed for the sharing of the first quantified results from experiments conducted on the platform: low-carbon agricultural practices, beneficial for biodiversity and soil vitality. Examples from real farms illustrated the agronomic, economic, and environmental benefits of these innovative practices.
“Agrosolutions today plays a central role in dynamically supporting the agroecological transition, both for cooperatives and agri-food industrialists. As demonstrated on the Openfield platform, Agrosolutions is a firm that positions itself as a committed and pragmatic accelerator, serving the climate strategies implemented by all actors in the agricultural and food value chain.” declared Ludivine Allardon, Operations Director at Agrosolutions.
Focus on Field Innovation: AgriTech Solutions in the Spotlight
Nine AgriTech companies presented directly applicable technological solutions: intelligent irrigation management, input optimization, biological soil diagnostics, precision spraying… all tools to support the agroecological transition operationally.
“The whole challenge of this 2025 edition of Openfield is to understand the operational and economic stakes of the agroecological transition. But also to discover innovative, concrete, and proven solutions, while fostering exchanges between key players in the agricultural world, AgriTech startups, and agri-food industrialists.” – Mickaël Pourcelot, Director of Fermes Leader.
A Committed Ecosystem, from Upstream to Downstream
Agrosolutions and Fermes Leader demonstrate their ability to unite cooperatives, industrialists, startups, and farmers around a common objective: to build agriculture that is both profitable, resilient, and aligned with societal expectations.
