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Unfold Expands, Adds Research Facility For Vertical Farming

Unfold, a company that combines leading seed genetics with crop growing and agronomic expertise to advance the vertical farming industry welcomes Minos Athanassiadis as a company advisor and breaks ground on its new state-of-the-art R&D vertical farm facility in Davis, California

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CubicFarm Systems Corp. Announces International Expansion Into Australia

Food production in Australia has been significantly impacted year over year by devastating wildfires and major flooding. Farming currently covers 385 million hectares, or 58 percent of Australia, and accounts for 59 percent of the water extracted

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Inside Inuvik’s New Hydroponic Greenhouse

Inuvik’s first all-season growing facility will soon be operational, offering residents year-round access to locally produced greens.

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Feeding A City From The World’s Largest Rooftop Greenhouse

The world’s largest rooftop greenhouse is in Montreal, Canada. It measures more than 15,000m2 and produces more than 11,000kg of food per week. The company behind it had to hire 200 new employees due to pandemic-driven demand

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USA: New Farm Brings Sustainable Farming To Northern Michigan

There's a new farm in northern Michigan that provides fresh and local produce all-year-round using environmentally friendly practices and high-tech resources. The container is home to Pine Hill Farms, a farm that uses a controlled environment agriculture system to grow produce

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Early Bird Registration Now Open For In-Person Orlando 4-5, 2021 Edition

We're excited to return to our live, in-person format for the October 4-5, 2021 edition of the premier event for indoor|vertical farming and look forward to seeing all of our industry friends again!

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Sustainable Impacts Indoor Farming May Have On Environment

This article identifies the potential environmental effects large-scale indoor farming may have on air, water, and soil. We begin with an overview of what indoor farming is with a focus on greenhouses and indoor vertical farms (eg, plant factories)

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Robotic Warehouse Farms Will Save The World

The theory behind CEA is that by controlling the environment in which it grows, we can control everything about a plant and what it grows into by micro-tweaking one of a thousand different characteristics―including temperature, humidity, light duration, light wavelength, dissolved oxygen in the water, and carbon dioxide saturation in the air

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