Why High-Tech Urban Farms Won't Displace Community Gardens

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Why High-Tech Urban Farms Won't Displace Community Gardens

Urban farmers are increasingly leveraging technologies like machine learning and smartphone integration to build high-yield farms in small urban spaces

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PurePonics Is Planted In Geelong, Victoria

Last Friday the PurePonics team planted the first crop in the brand new aquaponics facility in Geelong, Victoria.

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Nation's Largest Commercial Hydroponic Greenhouse To Open In Monroe County

Clearwater Organic Farms LLC will soon start construction of a 15 acre (6.07 hectare) commercial leafy greens production facility in Monroe County, New York. The plans were announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday. The project will make use of Hydronov's leafy greens deep water floating raft technology and is estimated to create 137 new jobs.

IGrow PreOwned 5/4/17 IGrow PreOwned 5/4/17

2018 Farm Bill Is Enormous Opportunity For Urban Agriculture

The Urban Agriculture community has a great opportunity to shape the 2018 Farm Bill for two big reasons: 1) we offer benefits that appeal to politicians across the political spectrum, and 2) the public is already with us on this issue, ahead of the politicians

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Upping The Ante For Urban Growing

Europe is starting to catch up with the Far East and the USA with the opening of a major indoor lettuce-growing facility in the Netherlands, Gavin McEwan report

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Indoor Farmers Face Uncertainty Over Organic Labeling

The National Organic Standards Board have kicked the can down the road on hydroponic and aquaponic farming. The group was supposed to decide on April 21 if the systems can be considered organic. The only decision they made was to learn more about the farming process and have pushed their decision until the fall.

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New Farming Method in Taft Says Goodbye to Dirt

A new and innovative way of growing food without using dirt has carved a niche here in Kern County

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Beavercreek Veteran Looks To Change Farming Practices

The owner of Oasis Aqua Farm told 2 NEWS he’s trying to make farming more sustainable. His unconventional farming method started when his mother-in-law wanted to get rid of some fish.

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Indoor Growing Is ‘Bringing Back Failed Varieties’

Indoor growing with LEDs is allowing salad breeders to bring back high-performing varieties that didn't have strong enough disease resistance in crop trials, a city farming expert has revealed

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Your Relationship With Fish Is About To Change

A wave of change is upending the seafood business as we know it. Here’s what it means for everyone from investors to fish stick aficionados

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Indoor Ag-Con Returns to Las Vegas to Discuss Farm Economics and New Technology Trends in Hydroponics, Aquaponics & Aeroponics

We’re expecting that the big themes for this year will be farm economics and the commercialization of newer technologies such as machine learning

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Fish And Fresh Greens At The Farmory in Green Bay

Inside an old armory now called the Farmory - fish swim and greens grow. A collaboration of many aimed at creating this indoor farming system, to eventually help people learn how to help themselves.

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There Are Acres of Leafy Greens Inside These Shipping Crates On An Old St. Petersburg Junkyard

The would-be farmers bought three transoceanic refrigerated shipping containers, just a little dinged up, for $6,500 each

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Why We Need Technology As The Key Ingredient In Our Food

When asked how food security and production can be improved in Africa, former Rwandan minister and current president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Agnes Kaliba, had one simple answer: “Access to technologies.”

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Tear Down the Barriers to Urban Farming

When applied to scenic farms nestled in quiet rural country-sides, the maxim “good fences make good neighbors” might ring true

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Designing An Aquaponic Unit

Aquaponics is the integration of recirculating aquaculture and hydroponics in one production system. In aquaponics, the aquaculture effluent is diverted through plant beds and not released to the environment, while at the same time the nutrients for the plants are supplied from a sustainable, cost-effective and non-chemical source.

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The Aquaculture Industry, Other Than For Shellfish, Is Completely Dependent On The Animal Feed Industry That Sustains It

The Aquaculture Industry, Other Than For Shellfish, Is Completely Dependent On The Animal Feed Industry That Sustains It

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How Antibiotic-Tainted Seafood From China Ends Up on Your Table

You might want to pass on the shrimp cocktail