CAST Farms

The Cornell Agricultural Systems Test Bed and Demonstration Site for the Farm of the Future includes three farms:

• Cornell University Ruminant Center
• Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn
• Musgrave Research Farm

The farms comprise a large, diverse land base in New York State. CAST’s multi-site nature is a major strength: more can be learned about technologies, practices, and intelligent systems if they are applied across operations of varying size, type and management.

The three farm units also employ coordinated technology testing and demonstration, and the exchange of physical materials, such as equipment, feedstuffs and manure. Their two crop-production units (~2,550 acres available) and two dairy herds (~825 adult cows, 500 youngstock) generate enough data to realistically model key challenges of integration and analytics.