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Contain Inc Announces Finance Arrangement With Edible Beats For FarmBox Foods Container Farm
The container farm is being built and customized for Edible Beats, and will produce ingredients for all of the EB concepts, Linger, Root Down, Vital Root, El Five, and Ophelais
Can Vertical Farms Be Profitable?
Basically, we’re skeptical of both the economics and the save-the-world ethos that many companies preach. We enlisted an industry insider to help us separate the wheat from the chaff
Sowing Season For Vertical Farms
Growing fresh produce in a controlled indoor environment using technology inputs has, in some cases, been around for almost two decades. But it has only recently started to gain traction linked to climate change and sustainability concerns. However, can it be profitable and competitive?
A Primer On Vertical Farming As The Industry Gains Steam
The modern concept of vertical farming was put forth in 1999 by Columbia University microbiologist Dickson Despommier, who along with his students, came up with a design of a skyscraper farm that could feed 50,000 people
Top 4 Vertical Farming Stocks
As the world’s population grows, there are more mouths to feed. This has presented some big challenges in agriculture. Although, we’ve continued to innovate and overcome. There have been some great investing opportunities and vertical farming stocks are up next
Bowery Farming Secures $300 Million To Continue US Expansion
The company has secured more than $472 million in funding to date, bringing its valuation to $2.3 billion
Indoor Vertical Farming Startup Bowery Farming Raises $300 Million
Vertical farming grows its produce in stacked arrangements in technologically controlled environments, reducing the need for vast expanses of land and bringing mass production right in to urban areas
Florida Native Brick Street Farms Takes On Global Agriculture With Multi-Million Dollar Investment
The Ag Tech Innovator Scales its Local Approach to More Sustainably Feed Urban Communities
Widespread Investment In CEA Is An Important Piece of The Food Security Puzzle
It has become increasingly clear that traditional agriculture is simply not meeting the food demands of the future
Pure Harvest Is Not Just A Vertical Farm, But A ‘Veridical’ One, Says CEO
With desert making up the vast majority of its land – and most of the rest taken up by urban development – it’s easy to see why the UAE imports as much as 90% of its food from abroad. Just 5% of the country is considered cultivable
Global Investment In Agri-Food-Tech Surged To $ 22.3 Billion
Finistere Ventures report reveals $ 5 billion invested in Agtech and $ 17.3 billion invested in Foodtech in 2020. Finistere Ventures expects 2021 to dwarf 2020 numbers as capital continues to flood into agtech.
Investing In Indoor Vertical Farming
The vertical farming market is projected to reach USD 7.3 billion by 2025 from USD 2.9 billion in 2020; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.2% during the forecast period
CANADA: Startup Bets 'Vertical Farms' Can Boost Quebec's Winter Berry Output
Standing about six metres tall, the indoor Vaudreuil facility will cover about 1,250 square metres and eventually produce 15 to 18 tons of strawberries a month, according to founder and chief operating officer Yves Daoust
VIDEO: Tortuga Raises $ 20m To Build Hundreds of Harvesting Robots
Last year Tortuga launched a strawberry harvesting robot. This platform is flexible, according to Tortuga it can be adapted to work on other crops like indoor-grown tomatoes or outdoor table grapes
Barton Breeze Launches Bank Guarantee For Hydroponic Farms
In an attempt to make hydroponic farming attractive to those interested in farming, Barton Breeze, a Gurugram-based agritech firm, has come up with an assured return plan with a bank guarantee
iFarm Partners With Contain Inc., Increases Accessibility of Vertical Farms
Dedicated to securing lease financing for indoor growers, Contain Inc. works with private lenders to facilitate leases and create custom insurance solutions
California-Based Greenhouse Grower To Invest $18 Million In Warner Robins, Georgia Indoor Farm
Pete’s is expected to use 24 acres within the county for its indoor growing facility that’s designed to require 90% less land and water than traditional farming
Expanding Controlled Environment Agriculture Beyond 'The Big 4'
Greenhouses, vertical farms, and hybrid systems (collectively known as controlled environment agriculture or CEA) continue to attract investment at a much greater scale than in previous decades
Founders Future: A New Fund For Impact Startups
The fund's particularly interested in vertical farming, circular economy, mobility and alternative packaging