Grand Farm, an organization that facilitates agriculture technology collaboration and research, has broken ground on a 140-acre site for its Innovation Facility in Casselton, N.D.
Grand Farm will utilize the new facility to bring together researchers, growers, industry, startups and government to ideate and execute on innovations to solve some of the world’s largest challenges in agriculture. The facility will provide expanded acreage for the deployment of agriculture technology projects, rapid prototyping capabilities, and increased research and educational capacity.
In 2019, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue helped cut the ribbon on Grand Farm’s current test site just south of Fargo, N.D., and Microsoft pledged $1.5 Million as the first partner. Since then, Grand Farm has deployed more than 350 agriculture technology projects and has worked with more than 55 partner organizations. Earlier this year, U.S. Senator John Hoeven announced a $1 million federal
