Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Georgie and I started the morning with Ann, checking to see if the barley is ready for harvest!

Submitted by: Vinicius Trevisan, Project Coordinator
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Canola harvest day at Grand Farm

Submitted by: Prabhat Poudyal, Startup Coordinator
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: David Vinson, Program Manager at Grand Farm, replacing the cassette on the Scanit Technologies' SporeCam. The SporeCam continuously captures airborne fungal spores on a proprietary cassette, analyzes each particle using onboard optics, and securely sends the data to the cloud for rapid disease detection and monitoring.

Submitted by: David, Program Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: The Acclima Node is a solar-powered telemetry device that collects SDI-12 sensor data and transmits it wirelessly via LoRaWAN. Here is Prabhat assigning addresses and verifying Tx/Rx via terminal commands to the sensors connected to this node.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Vini is teaching ND Farmer’s Union campers about drones in agriculture. Next up, seeing a robot in action! These youth from Barnes County are very curious and impressive. The future of ag is in good hands!

Submitted by: Andrew, Ecosystem Director
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: John Mann leading a group of farmers and ag leaders for our field day at the Innovation Campus

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: It's time for Elevate: An AI in Agriculture Summit! Category is… Retro Gameshow.

Submitted by: Vinicius Trevisan, Project Coordinator
Location: Montana State University
Description: Great day at the Montana State University Lutz Farm Field Day!
Kyle Whitcraft did a great job sharing what Grand Farm is doing and the work happening across our projects!

Submitted by: Amanda, Ecosystem Program Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: aerialPLOT hosted a team meeting at the Farm the day before Elevate. Jeremiah, CEO, will be speaking at Elevate. Grand Farm and aerialPLOT have collaborated this year to offer their drone services and platform to Grand Farm’s plot partners.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: Devin Wirth from CHS is giving the Grand Farm team an explanation of their herbicide/adjuvant plots. We’re learning so much about what adjuvants are and the differences they make.

Submitted by: Dr. William Aderholdt, Executive Director
Location: UGA Grand Farm (GA)
Description: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences hosted academic leaders from institutions throughout the United States this past weekend.

One of the last stops was UGA Grand Farm in Perry, GA. Kaytlyn Cobb, Lenín Rodríguez, and Anthony (Tony) N. Llano got to share about their work bringing the partners and site to life.

Special thanks to Drs. Lauren Lazaro and Nicholas Basinger for their immense support of the USDA National Proving Grounds Network on the site. They have been a big help as we've launched the weed challenges of this year.

Grand Farm is only possible through partnerships, and I am so proud to call Georgia one of our largest.

Submitted by: Madi, Director of Marketing
Location: Casselton, ND
Description: Getting lined up for the Casselton Summerfest parade! Let’s go!

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: There’s a lot of activity at the CHS field trial in the distance this morning. It’s the final day that they are using the plots to train agronomists on the effects of adding adjuvants to herbicides. Nothing beats seeing the effects first hand in the field.

Submitted by: Ann, Project Manager
Location: Grand Farm Innovation Campus (ND)
Description: The Innovation Campus looks so good ahead of our Field Day next week! The field operations team has put in monumental effort, and it shows.

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