{"id":72763,"date":"2025-05-27T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/?p=72763"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:36:27","slug":"where-innovation-takes-root-uga-partners-demo-future-of-agriculture-at-grand-farm-groundbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/where-innovation-takes-root-uga-partners-demo-future-of-agriculture-at-grand-farm-groundbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Where innovation takes root: UGA, partners demo future of agriculture at Grand Farm groundbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Georgia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/caes.uga.edu\">College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences<\/a>, in collaboration with the North Dakota-based Grand Farm, broke ground earlier this month on the UGA Grand Farm in Perry, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The 250-acre site will be a hub for agricultural innovation projects, demonstrating new technologies and automation focused on specialty crops from Georgia and the Southeast. The first projects are set to go live this year.<\/p>\n<p>Field demonstrations in conjunction with the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/harvesting-solutions-integrative-precision-agriculture-conference-showcases-the-future-of-farming\/\">2nd Integrative Precision Agriculture Conference<\/a>, hosted by UGA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/iipa.uga.edu\/\">Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture<\/a>, was held in Perry in conjunction with the groundbreaking. Grand Farm partners and members of the CAES Precision Horticulture Lab showed off their new technologies to conference attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Explore a few highlights in the photo essay above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Georgia\u2019s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, in collaboration with the North Dakota-based Grand Farm, broke ground earlier this month on the UGA Grand Farm in Perry, Georgia. The 250-acre site will be a hub for agricultural innovation projects, demonstrating new technologies and automation focused on specialty crops from Georgia and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/where-innovation-takes-root-uga-partners-demo-future-of-agriculture-at-grand-farm-groundbreaking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where innovation takes root: UGA, partners demo future of agriculture at Grand Farm groundbreaking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":72750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"look-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[],"post_medium":[316],"publications":[],"authors":[814],"photographers":[899],"video_credit":[],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-72763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agtech","post_medium-look","authors-david-mitchell","photographers-sean-montgomery","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72763"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=72763"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=72763"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=72763"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=72763"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=72763"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=72763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}