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VIDEO: AI-Controlled Vertical Farms Promise Revolution In Food Production
These upright farms take up only 2 acres yet produce 720 acres worth of fruit and vegetables. Lighting, temperature and watering are controlled by AI-controlled robots
Welcome To The Future of Food!
A unique form of farming is ‘taking rise’ in the UK with fresh food and other crops being grown indoors on special towers using light, hi-tech food production equipment, and hot water
Vertical Farm Produces Kosher Certified No-Insect Produce
In a breakthrough for the kashrut market, a vertical farm company based in the Netherlands has produced and marketed culinary herbs with no need to wash or check for insects as is usually required by Jewish law
VIDEO: "Harvested Here" Is An Indoor Farming Service Developed by Babylon Micro-Farms Inc
This service is ideal for corporate dining, healthcare, education, and grocery stores that are looking to increase the resiliency of their food supply chain
How Indoor Vertical Farms Use Big Data And Robotics To Grow Animal Feed
"Grov focuses on producing feed for animals to produce the other foods we depend on," said Lindsey. "Climate change, droughts, foods, etc., are reducing the water and arable land needed
INDIA: Hydroponics Startups Are Slowly Growing On Indian Consumers
Chennai-based biotechnology graduate Rahul Dhoka’s rooftop looks like a maze. Only, it’s a maze of over 6,000 organically grown leafy vegetables and herbs such as carrom, kale, lettuce, and spinach
Indoor Farming Gets Greener Via Solar Load Aggregation
Transportation to markets is one expense addressed by controlled environment agriculture. Other direct energy costs remain a challenge
Urban Crop Solutions Solidifies Presence In North America With The Appointment of Douglas Gamble As Sales Manager
He joins UCS from the more traditional side of agriculture – having been raised on a dairy farm, which later transitioned into a large-scale Greenhouse operation
How 4 Young Vertical Farming Visionaries Built A Thriving Business In Just 3 Years
Recently, in one of our most popular webinars of all time, Wihelmsson fired us up with Ljusgårda’s amazing story – building a thriving modern farm in what was once a factory, by “replacing the tractor with lights and the shovel with an iPad.”
Growing Crops In Cities Will Put An End To Food Waste
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, empty supermarket shelves prompted people to ask – sometimes for the first time – where their food comes from
The Wave of Hawaii's Future Agriculture: A Mix of Traditional Farming And New Technologies
Kalera announced it will open a facility in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2021. Kalera’s Hawaiian location will be the company’s eighth facility announced. The farm will provide approximately 60 jobs to the local community upon opening
Vertical Indoor Farms Make Sense
Nate Storey, founder of a startup in the burgeoning agtech sector, which applies high-tech solutions to agriculture and farming, is convinced that the future of vegetable production is vertical and indoor cultivation, an approach that allows crops to be grown anywhere in the world to supply local markets
Never Forget The Horizontal In Vertical Farming
Vertical farming is all about how high you can go, how you can repurpose the space you have in ways you never thought possible before
ISRAEL: The Supermarkets That Have A Farm In The Parking Lot
“Our first Vertical Field farm at Rami Levy was launched in Modi’in. Now we have four farms at Rami Levy branches whose produce is already sold inside the supermarket
UAE: Vertical Farming Firm Reveals Plan To Launch Healthy Food Brand
Fit Farm will offer healthy and all-natural foods that can be prepared on the go Sara Holdings, the company which recently launched the UAE’s latest hydroponic vertical farming concept, Smart Acres, has revealed global expansion plans in 2021 which include the launch of a healthy food line
KUWAIT: "Up To 550 kg of Lettuce Per Day Thanks To Faster Growth Cycles"
Instead of traveling 5,000 kilometers between German growing areas and consumers, lettuce from vertical farming company &ever in Kuwait travels less than 100 kilometers
Valoya Appoints A VP Sales North America
Valoya continues its growth trajectory with the addition of VP Sales North America, Mr. Wes Eaton. With extensive experience in horticulture and business development, Mr. Eaton will be tasked with driving Valoya’s growth in the North American market even further
PODCAST: Hydroponic Growing System
Learn facts about hydroponic growing systems built out of plastic and metal, it runs on a couple of water pumps and some timers
Food Will Be Grown Hydroponically In Shipping Containers In Cardiff's Bute Park
Starting with one trial shipping container in Bute Park, the plan is to expand across the city to grow much more food locally and with much less water. Growing food locally is seen as a key way to reduce carbon emissions, rather than shipping food from across the world
Nature Fresh Farms Spreads Holiday Cheer With Their 2020 Holiday Giveaway
This has been the fourth consecutive year Nature Fresh Farms has carried out their company Holiday Giveaway