Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Working to develop use-inspired research protocols for the National Proving Ground to evaluate AgTech consistently across the nation. Increasing trust and adoption of Technology by farmers.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: KingPinz in Fargo
Description: Weed experts from across the country bowling at KingPinz in Fargo after a long day of developing National Proving Grounds year 1 protocols.

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Dr. Steven Mirsky presenting to 20+ weed experts from around the country and the Grand Farm team about Agricultural Image Repository technology.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Some of the 2026 field trials started today, before fertilizer application before planting. Vinicius pulled soil samples this morning for Prospect Growth and Sentinel Ag trials. These samples will be analyzed for soil nutrient content to provide baseline information that is important to understand treatment effects later in the season.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Dave flying Frontier Precision's drone at the farm pre-season to get calibrations, pre-season imagery, etc. Very important to understanding current conditions of the field ahead of crops being on-site.

Submitted by: Dave, PMO Team
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Vini using Trimble® DA2 receiver (powered by Trimble® Catalyst™ GNSS positioning service) to mark field corners. It enables reliable, repeatable positioning that reduces human error and integrates seamlessly with GIS software for mapping and analysis.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Bobcat is out on the Campus helping to make sure our UTVs are ready to go to kick off the field season. These are used to make sure our team can access the entire field, under most conditions, and keep up with the heavy equipment around the site.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Local farmers, Summers Manufacturing, and Grand Farm team working to get Summer's Renegade tillage equipment hooked up and ready to prepare the soil for this year's field trials.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Preparing the Boson electric UTV for the field season to help move equipment, inputs, and people around the site as needed. Boson came to Grand Farm after reading the first RAPPR.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Jeff utilizing Case's tractor to make sure the test site is driveable. Preparing the equipment for the planting sprint we are about to do. This will be hooked up to a planter shortly to be used in the next few weeks.

Submitted by: Kyle, PMO Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Local farmer Ron Holiday hosts a training on Greeneye Sprayer technology.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Downtown Fargo Office (ND)
Description: Nathan Marcotte and Vini working on mapping our 2026 trials in real-time, with Brenden VanWechel reporting in from the field.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Downtown Fargo Office (ND)
Description: Jenny getting a large grant over the line to continue the expansion of capabilities out at the Innovation Campus.

Submitted by: Kaytlyn, Assistant Director of UGA Grand Farm
Location: UGA Grand Farm (GA)
Description: Big day in Perry! 250 pecan trees were planted at UGA Grand Farm.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: UGA Grand Farm (GA)
Description: A photo from today’s successful field day in Perry. Eddy Mejia, Grand Farm field trial partner, and Lenin with UGA Grand Farm tour the site.