Vertical Aeroponics: The future of Farming?

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Vertical Aeroponics: The future of Farming?

“Aeroponics is considered to be the best way to grow,” Blank said. “We’re getting more oxygen to the roots, and you don’t have to deal with the excess grown medium. Science continues to prove that this is becoming a more efficient way to grow plants at a higher rate.”

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How Do You Create A Sustainable, Economical Vertical Farm?

“One of the questions that we wanted to answer when we began the project was how long does it take a grower to break even and to start making money.

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Urban Farming Could Be Humanity’s Best Hope To Solve Deforestation And World Hunger

World hunger and global deforestation are two of the biggest problems assaulting humanity right now. Sure, there’s also climate change, but it can almost be considered an umbrella under which all of the global threats from nature is stemming from

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Greenhouse Technology Could Be The Future of Food

CU Boulder engineers have received a $2.45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a scalable, cost-effective greenhouse material that splits sunlight into the photosynthetically efficient light and repurposes inefficient infrared light to aid in water purification.

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New Technologies Allow Sustainable Farming In The Arctic

The polar permaculture technique looks at both these ends and offers a solution. It has helped Vidmar close the loop, reuse and recycle the waste to create a "circular economy."

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Understanding Coco Coir As A Grow Medium

Coconut coir usually comes in blocks. Adding temperate filter water to the blocks causes it to expand to produce a very refined growing medium for microgreens, that you can mix with your soil. It keeps the pH value from diving too low; Coir is also great for soil structure.

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Philips Lighting Introduces New GreenPower LED Toplighting at IPM Essen With Higher Efficacy, Light output and a Longer Lifetime

Both new versions offer a higher light efficacy of up to 3.3 µmol/J, a longer lifetime of 35,000 burning hours and exceptional energy efficiency compared to the former toplighting module.

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Hydroponic Vegetables Not That Safe, Says Bangkok Food Safety Group

Nearly two-thirds of the samples of hydroponically-grown vegetables tested were found to be contaminated with pesticides in excess of the maximum residue limit, according to the Thailand Pesticide Alert Network (Thai-PAN).

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National Young Farmers Coalition Issues Guide to Growing a Farm With Federal Loans

The National Young Farmers Coalition just released Farm Service Agency Loans: The Ins and Outs of Growing a Farm with Federal Loans, an illustrated guidebook for farmers looking to secure credit from USDA.

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Local Food Activist Jillian Hishaw Named A 'Changemaker'

For more than a decade, agricultural attorney Jillian Hishaw has been working in the southeast to alleviate hunger, help financially distressed farmers hold on to their land, and find markets for locally farmed goods.

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Northeast Organic Farmers Coming Together at Rutgers This January

More than 50 workshops on food, farming, and gardening will be offered at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey (NOFA-NJ) Winter Conference at the Rutgers University Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick.

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A Mobile Post-Harvest Pre-Cooling System for Post-Harvest Pre-Cooling At Grow Sites.

Chill Produce Coolers and ColdPICK have combined to design, engineer, manufacture and represent forced air and vacuum post-harvest pre-cooling systems.

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A Jeff Bezos-Backed Warehouse Farm Startup is Building 300 Indoor Farms Across China

Due to rising concerns surrounding food safety, middle-class Chinese consumers are increasingly willing to pay a premium for organic produce.

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The Rise of Vertical Farms

From a classroom idea to a commercially viable technology, vertical farming promises a green revolution designed for the future. Here's what you need to know.

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Hate The Taste of Kale? Artificial Intelligence Could Help

Farmers are using technology to tweak the color and flavor of vegetables, including algorithms that can suggest changes in factors like the amount of water vegetables receive and what temperature they’re grown in.

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Kimbal Musk — Elon’s Brother — Predicts a Movement of Millennial Workers Fleeing Desk Jobs For Farms

Musk noticed this trend a few years ago, which is partly why he co-founded Square Roots — an indoor farming accelerator aimed at young Brooklynites — with friend and entrepreneur Tobias Peggs in 2016.

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How The AgTech Investment Boom Will Create A Wave Of Agriculture Unicorns

agtech into the realm of global scalability.
Softbank's Vision Fund led the $200 million Series B to bet on indoor farms while also opening doors to key partners in Asia and the Middle East to reach affluent consumers. Tech investors like Japan's Softbank are seeking to bring

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Philips Lighting’s New GrowWise Control System Gives Growers and Researchers More Flexibility and Control For LED Cultivation

“This is our first step towards digitization of Horti LED lighting systems,” said Udo van Slooten, Business Leader Horticulture at Philips Lighting. “The GrowWise Control System is the hardware platform that will allow us to build digital lighting control in the future. This will replace our current analog research systems.”

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10 Macro Trends Driving Food Innovation

Each year Mattson identifies a number of macro trends. Our goal is to think beyond “the next kale.”

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How Can You Grow Healthier Crops With Affordable Lighting Systems?

New research from the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering consortium will revolutionize greenhouse lighting systems.