Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: A local farmer brought his friend from New Zealand to learn more about advanced farming at the Innovation Campus.

Submitted by: William, Executive Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Cross training with AGCO on the planter. Assembly races as well!

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: By George, it’s inoculation! Ann and the field ops team applying Lilac Ag’s biologicals to soybeans for their 2026 field trials.

Submitted by: Andrew, Ecosystem Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Hosting Geronimo Power, new Grand Farm partner, executive and greater team to explore potential collaboration opportunities

Submitted by: Kayt, Regional Assistant Director
Location: UGA Grand Farm (GA)
Description: UGA Grand Farm Director of Operations, Dr. Lenin Rodriguez showing off our LeafTech scanner!

Submitted by: Andrew, Ecosystem Director
Location: UGA Grand Farm (GA)
Description: From Lenin with the Perry site: the Skysense drone was delivered on Monday, and Lenin has been prepping the 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.