NASA Space4Ag Tour

Sandhills Area Research Association | August 23–28, 2026 | Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas

A listening tour across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas — connecting the farmers and ranchers who work this ground with the NASA scientists building the tools meant to serve them.

  • Texas: Aug 23–26

  • Oklahoma: Aug 26–28

  • Kansas: Aug 27

NASA Acres is a U.S.-focused agriculture and food security consortium under NASA's Earth Science Division, built to turn satellite Earth observation data into tools producers can actually use in the field.

NASA Acres

For decades, NASA has watched American farmland from orbit — tracking vegetation, soil conditions, and yield changes over time. NASA Acres exists to take that vantage point and turn it into something a producer can use to make a decision, not just a dataset that sits in a research paper.

FIAT (Farm Innovation Ambassador Team)

FIAT flips the usual research model. Instead of studying agriculture from a distance, it puts working farmers and ranchers directly alongside NASA researchers, shaping which questions get asked and testing whether the resulting tools hold up on real ground. Because the underlying data is taxpayer-funded, it's free and open to producers — no cost to access or use it.

NASA LEADERSHIP JOINING THE TOUR

Dr. Karen St. Germain — Director, NASA Earth Science Division

Alyssa Whitcraft — NASA Acres, Executive Director 

Michael Humber — NASA Acres, Deputy Director

RSVP & QUESTIONS

Tillery Timmons-Sims
Lead Planner, Space4Ag Tour 2026 — Sandhills Area Research Association
Phone: 806-240-0210
Email: contact@sara-conservation.com