Grand Farm Declares Website Choice for Future Innovation Facility | sUAS Information

Fargo, ND – This morning on the BankNorth Theater positioned inside Cass County Excessive Faculty in Casselton, ND, Grand Farm and Casselton Financial Growth collectively introduced the long run web site of Grand Farm’s Innovation Facility. 

Melissa Seaside, Casselton Neighborhood and Financial Growth Director helped unveil the location,” We’re excited that Grand Farm selected our neighborhood for its everlasting location. With our lengthy historical past in agriculture and considerable neighborhood and trade companions, the Casselton space is a good match for his or her Innovation Facility.”

Since its launch in 2019, Grand Farm has been working and deploying AgTech tasks on donated acreage south of Fargo, ND. With continuous growth of tasks and analysis, Grand Farm decided that establishing an Innovation Facility on their very own acreage would greatest enable them to proceed their affect in agriculture know-how innovation.

 “We couldn’t be extra excited to hitch this nice neighborhood,” mentioned Brian Carroll, Director of Grand Farm. “Whereas our present check web site has exceeded expectations, we proceed so as to add tasks and search to supply further capabilities. While you look throughout the Casselton space, you see a community of established organizations from agriculture to transportation to finance, so we’re actually becoming a member of as one other piece of a deep-rooted ecosystem.”

Grand Farm’s Innovation Facility shall be deliberately designed to be a regularly adapting, demonstration and innovation house that can keep on the forefront of agriculture know-how innovation. It is going to present expanded acreage for the deployment of further AgTech tasks, speedy prototyping capabilities, and elevated analysis capability.

In February, the North Dakota Division of Commerce introduced it had chosen Grand Farm as a recipient of the division’s Autonomous Agriculture Expertise Matching Grant. The $10 million grant was created with funding from the 67th Legislative Meeting to encourage and assist the development of autonomous farming know-how by awarding a 1:1 match of funding for the deployment of an innovation facility, venture administration for complicated North Dakota-based and international autonomous agricultural ideas, and workforce initiatives to upskill the autonomous agriculture workforce with certified professionals to make sure superior farming strategies. 

Grand Farm straight engages the neighborhood, bringing collectively native stakeholders with organizations from world wide to collaborate on improvements fixing a few of the world’s largest challenges in AgTech. Grand Farm was developed to be additive to current infrastructure, applications, and state/federal investments. Its impartial, neutral-platform permits for direct and speedy engagement with growers, trade, researchers, and authorities. This gaps-based method maximizes funding into applications, services, and infrastructure.