Submitted by: David Vinson, Program Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Had to jump start a robot today. Equipment repairs are a fact of life and finding ways to get your equipment up and running on occasion requires shortcuts. Shout out to the makers, doers, fixers and engineers of the world who find ways to keep things going.

Submitted by: Ashlyn, Marketing Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Olivia Heilman, Grand Farm's Field Operations Intern, collected crop samples for Crop Diagnostix as part of ongoing field trials. The samples will support testing of Crop Diagnostix's gene expression analysis technology, which aims to detect crop deficiencies before visible symptoms appear, helping growers make proactive, data-driven decisions while reducing unnecessary inputs.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Agronomy doesn’t stop during a heat wave. Corn V12 tissue sampling rolls on!

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Is there anything prettier than barley at this stage?

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Intern Zach is taking stand counts of cereal hemp in New West Genetics’ trial. Emergence stand counts are a critical measure of crop establishment to evaluate seed performance and treatment impacts. Accurate stand counts provide the foundation for interpreting season-long outcomes and yield results.

Submitted by: Marco, Field Technician
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Feeding the Operations Team with brisket for Olivia’s birthday

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: The team getting a comprehensive tour of the field to prepare for 2026 field tour season! There are 22 organizations represented across 28 plots this year.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Claire, Olivia, and Vinicius dug soybean root samples as part of the protocol for one of Lilac Ag’s trials. It was delicate work getting the roots out of the ground without breaking them and removing the soil while keeping the nodules intact.

Submitted by: Brenden, Farm Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Rain- day studying for applicators tests

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: So much tissue sampling and Intern Olivia is loving it!

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Intern Claire collecting tissue sample leaves for a field trial

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Vini collecting real-time tissue nutrient data for a field trial with the LeafTech Ag device

Submitted by: David, Program Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: First sugar beets planted for BenchBot, an imaging platform designed to generate the large, high-quality datasets needed to power agricultural artificial intelligence. Thank you to our field operations interns, Olivia Heilman and Claire McDonald, for getting a very exciting project started for Grand Farm,

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Honoring founding Grand Farm board member, Cindy Schreiber-Beck today.

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: American Farm Bureau Promotion & Engagement Committee getting a live demonstration of the BOPA ANT technology!

Submitted by: Andrew, Ecosystem Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: The Northern Plains Sustainable Ag Society hosted their organic and regenerative AgTech field day at Grand Farm.

Submitted by: John, Startup Program Manager
Location: Downtown Fargo Office (ND)
Description: Engaged crowd at the Weed Control breakout session at Cultivate.

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Downtown Fargo Office (ND)
Description: Standing room only at our 2026 Cultivate conference! Let’s do this!

Submitted by: Amanda, Ecosystem Program Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Grand Farm tour with Keynote speaker, Shannon Hauf of Bayer.

Submitted by: Amanda, Ecosystem Program Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Grand Farm tour for AgCountry Farm Credit Services