Roll up your sleeves… Grand Farm’s Cultivate Conference is back on June 11th! If you spend your time in or around AgTech, you will want to be in Fargo during Cultivate and AgTech Week 2026.

Cultivate is Grand Farm’s flagship conference focused on solving problems in agriculture with applied technology, and then bringing the right people together to move those solutions forward. This year’s agenda is shaped by the newest edition of the Regional Agriculture Pain Point Report, which highlights the top challenges identified by growers and commodity groups across the Upper Midwest. Through high-level panels, pain point-driven workshops, startup pitches, and curated networking, Cultivate gives the region’s stakeholders a place to collaborate, validate needs, and accelerate real adoption on Upper Midwest farms.

Conference Goals

1. Activate Technology and Solutions: Showcase innovations that directly address the most urgent grower challenges across the Upper Midwest.
2. Strengthen Grower and Tech Collaboration: Create intentional spaces where growers help shape, validate, and influence how new technology develops.
3. Elevate the Upper Midwest Innovation Ecosystem: Highlight the strengths of the region’s cooperatives, equipment manufacturers, farmers, founders, and research institutions.
4. Accelerate Adoption: Share practical and ROI-focused examples of tools that are ready for use or close to it, and show how they fit into real farm operations.
5. Build High-Value Regional Connections: Give attendees opportunities to form connections that lead to pilots, partnerships, field trials, commercialization, and investment.