Submitted by: Andrew, Ecosystem Director
Location: UGA Grand Farm (GA)
Description: Some fun NPG-Ag updates from Lenin with the Perry site. The Skysense drone was delivered on Monday, and Lenin has been prepping the NPG-Ag land for planting next week.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: NDSU on-site to begin trials for the 2026 season. This will be the 7th year they have participated in field trials and are our longest standing field partner.

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Jordan with USDA Dash getting the ModCam installed on our sprayer for the 2026 growing season.

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Ann giving a helping hand while applying Pivot Bio's seed treatment for their 2026 field trial.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Preparing sensors that will be used for data assessments in field trials

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Ensuring that a sugar beet trial was planted just right – at the appropriate depth and spacing

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Calibration of the planter for sugar beet planting for NPG this year!

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: The marketing team capturing cultivation content for storytelling purposes.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: CHS deploying fertilizer for the test plots today using precision ag technology to individually apply for each plot

Submitted by: Andrew, Ecosystem Director
Location: UGA Grand Farm (GA)
Description: Kaytlyn Cobb presenting at the Southeastern Specialty Crop Technology Conference and Show.

Submitted by: Greg, Team
Location: Washington DC
Description: USDA press conference highlighting National Proving Grounds

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.