Bringing Down Silos
True Change Through a Collaborative Environment.
Grand Farm is a network of growers, corporations and startups, educators and researchers, investors and government officials — all working together to solve problems in agriculture.
From its inception in 2019 to the 2024 grand opening of the Innovation Campus in Casselton, North Dakota, Grand Farm has worked to advance farming practices through shared ideas and collaboration.
During the 2024 growing season, Grand Farm managed 33 field plots, offering a real-world farm setting for 18 partners working to validate their technology, products or practices. Grand Farm also launched its startup plots, in which six startup companies from the U.S. and Costa Rica can test a no-till planter, biologicals, nano fertilizer, biostimulants, colloidal silver for disease control and more.
Grand Farm’s Grower Advisory Board provides valuable insights to help identify the challenges and needs in agriculture. The farm also gathers information from grower associations, commodity councils, research papers and data, compiling findings in its Regional Agricultural Pain Point Report. The newest edition will be available in June, providing startups, researchers and agribusiness with information to develop or test solutions.
AgCountry, which is based in Fargo, North Dakota, led a Farm Credit coalition that donated a combined $1.1 million to help finance the development of the Grand Farm Innovation Campus. FCSAmerica was part of the coalition.
Farm Credit’s mission of supporting rural communities and a strong agricultural industry align to the pillars on which Grand Farm is built. This includes innovating in ways that improve growing practices, strengthening rural communities by supporting job creation and fostering a more sustainable agricultural industry.
For more on how we and our customer-owners support a more sustainable agriculture industry, read our 2024 Sustainability Report.
