Grass Ridge R&D · Est. on a 100-year-old family farm
More than a decade of building ag-tech that farmers actually pay for. Now helping robotics and hard-tech teams get from prototype to the field, with our own 2,000-acre, 700-cow dairy to test on.
Test site
Grass Ridge Farm
01 What we do
Most ag-tech teams have to stitch together a dev shop, a test farm, and an advisor who has actually farmed. We're all three, under one roof.
01 / Engineering
Hard-tech and ag-tech engineering from a team that has shipped production farm software for a decade.
02 / Field testing
Deploy on a 2,000-acre, 700-cow working dairy, with engineers on site who can debug your stack, not just babysit your robot.
03 / Advisory
Straight feedback on what farmers will actually buy, from people who have sold to them and farm every day.
02 Track record
Production software running on real farms and in real ag businesses. A few of the problems we've solved.
Dairy
Software for running the daily operations of large dairy farms, used on farms in almost every US state.
Supply chain
A marketplace for bulk animal feed, with the logistics software to move it. Feed sold into all lower 48 states.
Machine data
Customer-facing tools to inspect and manage data flowing in from John Deere, Case IH, and other farm machines.
AI
Agentic intelligence and a data lake on top of machine data, for R&D, sales, and operations teams.
Veterinary
24/7 call intake that answers, takes notes, and dispatches the on-call vet.
03 The proving ground
Test plots and demo farms are tidy. Commercial farms aren't. Grass Ridge is a working dairy, so your robot meets the conditions your customers will actually throw at it.
Stalls, curtains, fans, and 700 cows that don't care about your robot.
Daily feeding, feed pushing, and constant traffic.
Slick, uneven, and corrosive. Hard on wheels, tracks, and feet.
Young stock housing with very different layouts and hazards.
About 2,000 acres of corn silage, soybeans, alfalfa, clover, and pasture.
Gravel, ruts, gates, slopes, and full-size equipment traffic.
04 Humanoids
Humanoids need evidence from messy, variable, real places: uneven ground, changing light, dust, mud, weather, and tasks that are never set up the same way twice. A working farm has all of it, every day.
What you get to test
05 Who's behind it
Grass Ridge R&D is led by Carl Lippert, who grew up on Grass Ridge Farm and has been building ag-tech since 2013.
Put a decade of shipping farm software next to a working farm, and you get engineers who understand both the robot and the rugged, variable place it has to work.
"We'll tell you what's not going to work before your customers do."
About Carl & the farm06 FAQ
Both, on purpose. Grass Ridge R&D is the engineering and testing arm of Grass Ridge Farm, a working family dairy. We build software and hardware integrations for ag-tech and hard-tech teams, and use the farm to prove that work in real conditions.
Yes. We're opening a limited number of founding-partner field tests for 2027, from a few days on site to a full-season pilot. Every test starts with a scoping call and a written test and safety plan.
No. Dairy is where we're strongest, but we've built for machine data, row crops, feed, veterinary, and robotics. If it has to work on a farm, it's in scope.
Next step
Tell us what you're building. You'll get a straight answer on whether we can help, and what it would take.