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Sheikh Mohammed Launches Food Tech Valley In Dubai
It seeks to triple the UAE’s food production and will include a smart food logistics hub, R&D facilities as well as agricultural technology and engineering labs
New Platform For Pre-Owned Indoor Farming Equipment
Contain Inc announced the launch of their latest project, the used equipment trading platform, Equipped. Equipped is the first marketplace of its kind for buying and selling used indoor farming equipment
How Image Data Is Changing Agriculture
Anyone who wants to realize applications in which objects with a wide variety of characteristics – such as vegetables or fruit – are to be reliably recognized, cannot afford to ignore image processing with artificial intelligence
VIDEO: Ottawa Startup Plantaform Hopes To Harvest Profits From Indoor Gardening Technology
Ottawa biotech startup Plantaform's system, dubbed Rejuvenate, uses a concept called fogponics to grow herbs and leafy vegetables indoors
How COVID-19 Fed The Dream of Growing Food At Home
Sales of hydroponic gardens boomed during the pandemic, but do high-tech solutions like those only further fuel inequality?
Vertical Farming On The Rise: Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station And 80 Acres Farms Enter Research Agreement
Utilizing world-class technology and analytics to offer customers a wide variety of pesticide-free food with a longer shelf-life that exceeds the highest food safety standards
High Tech And Ancient Methods Meet At The Vertical Fields of Nabo Farm
In a former auto repair shop in the outskirts of Copenhagen, a farm has found its unlikely grounds. Fresh coriander, pea sprouts, and edible flowers are grown at the vertical farm – and sold to some of the finest restaurants in Denmark
Square Roots Opens New Indoor Farm, Produces First Harvest
The farm’s first locally grown harvest of herbs and greens that includes basils, arugula and radish microgreens will be available for consumers to purchase on e-commerce platforms, restaurants and grocery stores across the Great Lakes region in the coming weeks
When We Started Freight Farms In 2010, There Was No Such Thing As An “Ag Tech” industry
Freight Farms has a passionate customer base of small businesses, entrepreneurs, traditional farmers, hotels, restaurants, corporate campuses, universities, and non-profits
VIDEO: One Sure Way To Save Our Soil – Don’t Use Any
The advantage of container farming is the ability to create commercial-scale production within a small space the size of your standard 40-foot shipping container through vertical farming techniques
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
How Can 'Aquaponics' Farming Help Create Sustainable Food Systems?
Millions of people around the world go hungry every year, due to lack of access to healthy food and the effects of climate change on agricultural development
US: NEBRASKA - The Bay, Beyond School Bells Launch Youth-Focused 'Freight Farm'
In partnership with Beyond School Bells, The Bay is launching The Greenery, a self-contained hydroponic farm housed in a repurposed shipping container
USA: BALTIMORE - Hydroponic Operation Supplies High-End Restaurants
Growing vegetables in a shipping container have opened new marketing opportunities for a Baltimore County farm
2020 Sustainability Report Highlights AppHarvest’s Impact
“Resiliency is at the core of our beliefs at AppHarvest because farming as we’ve known it is broken and not sustainable for the planet,” said Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb
10 New Trends In CEA In 2021 And Beyond
The world of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is continuing to develop at an accelerated rate. In line with Agritecture’s mission “to accelerate climate-smart agriculture strategies,” we’ve decided to share our top predictions for the future of CEA for 2021 and beyond
Brief: UAE’s Madar Farms Partners With UK Vertical Farming Startup IGS
UK vertical farming tech provider Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) has partnered with Madar Farms, which cultivates a variety of indoor crops with the objective of enhancing food security in the Middle East
[Webinar] How I Did It - Fireside Chat - Farmbox Greens
In 2010, Dan Albert began laying the groundwork for what would become Farmbox Greens, a Seattle-based vertical farm growing specialty produce for retail and foodservice customers
Urban Crop Solutions Appoints New Global Sales Director
Having spent over 25 years in horticulture equipment, Filip brings invaluable experience in the international sale of turnkey projects
This Is What The Future of Farming Looks Like
Vertical farming is nothing less than exactly what it sounds like. As opposed to spreading crops out along the ground, beds are effectively turned on their side, and grown on vertical panels