New "Lego-Like" Vertical Growing System Offers Flexibility And Small Footprint

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New "Lego-Like" Vertical Growing System Offers Flexibility And Small Footprint

A German firm has launched the latest format in high-density soil-less urban growing.The modular Aponix Vertical Barrel uses an NFT hydroponic system and is designed particularly for urban farming facilities operating on limited space.

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In 2002 Organics Alive Was Formed As A Sustainable Bio-Tech Company

Organics Alive focuses on four main concepts: Crop Nutrient management, Genetics, Crop Management, Crop energy Management. By addressing these four concepts your garden will be more bountiful, your crops immunity will increase, and fruits will be much richer in profile increasing financial and nutritious value.

IGrow PreOwned 6/19/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/19/17

Protix Raises $50m in Largest Insect Farming Investment on Record

Protix, a Netherlands-based company, has raised €45 million ($50.5 million) in equity and debt funding to expand its insect farming business. This is the largest investment in the nascent insect farming industry to-date, according to Protix and its investors.

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Plantagon Announces its 40th Approved Patent

Developing and expanding the Intellectual Property Portfolio is an important corporate strategy for the Sweden based innovation company Plantagon International, with recent patents granted in the US, China and Australia.

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AgFuse’s Farmer Founder Is Dedicated To Building Social Network For Farmers Despite Challenges

Pat Rogers, a fifth-generation peanut and cotton producer operating in Blenheim, SC, is the creator and visionary behind AgFuse, a social networking site created for farmers that features a variety of crop, geographic, and product-based groups. It operates similarly to Facebook, providing users with a news feed and allowing them to follow other users and groups that pique their interest.

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FreshTEC Achievement Award for Peter Quiring

Thousands of produce industry executives are arriving in Chicago this week to attend the United Fresh Produce Association’s Annual FreshMKT & FreshTEC Expos & Convention June 13-15.

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The First Online Marketplace That Connects Buyers and Sellers

"We are a new company that was founded six months ago and we already have more than 800 companies from all over the world involved in the fresh fruits and vegetables sector," said Elena Molinaro, from Fruitsapp.

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Vertical Farming Startup Plenty Acquires Bright Agrotech to Scale

California-based vertical farming company Plenty, previously See Jane Farm, has acquired Bright Agrotech in an effort to reach “field-scale.”

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High-Tech Farms Give A New Meaning To ‘Locally Grown’

Billions of people around the world live far from where their food is grown. It’s a big disconnect in modern life. And it may be about to change.

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Food Revolution

Applying innovation to agriculture, a student startup plans to use hydroponics to grow fruits and vegetables four times faster using 90 percent less water.

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EU Awards Greek Patent for Automated Indoor Farming

The European Commission on Wednesday awarded Christos Raftogiannis and Evriviadis Makridis for their invention of an Automated Indoor Farming device with which you can grow 40 different fruits and vegetables in your home.

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The World's Largest Dedicated Showcase of Sustainable Agriculture Innovations

In 2018 GFIA Europe will be co-located with VIV Europe and Future Food Manufacturing to bring over 29,000 key buyers and decisions makers concerned with smart food production from around the world to Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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Lake Stevens High Seniors Convert Fridge to Hydroponic Garden

Isabelle Eelnurme and Elise Gooding salvaged the small refrigerator from Eelnurme’s grandparents’ back yard. It was a putrid shade of yellow. The brand label wore off long ago. They cleaned out bugs and grime. Then the teens painted it turquoise and turned it into a hydroponic garden. It’s a contained produce-growing system that doesn’t require soil or much space.

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These Food Computers Use AI To Make “Climate Recipes” For The Best-Tasting Crops

Inside a shipping container-sized box at MIT Media Lab, crops of basil are growing in micro-climates designed by artificial intelligence. The first experiments, with controlled levels and duration of UV light, aim to grow a tastier version.

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Go Ahead and AVA Byte of Fresh Produce From This Countertop Garden

This soil-free smart garden promises fresh greens and veggies that are grown as local as it gets.

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EAT-Lancet Commission On Their Way To Transform The Food System

Food Planet Health was recently launched to showcase news, case studies, data tools, and ongoing research updates from the EAT-Lancet Commission for Food, Planet and Health. The website focuses on the need to transform the food system in order to improve human health and health of the planet.

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'Plant Factories' Churn Out Clean Food in China’s Dirty Cities

Researchers build urban farms, crop labs to combat contamination

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Urban Farming Insider: Jeff Mastin, R&D Specialist at Total Grow Horticultural Lighting

We sat down with Jeff Mastin, R&D Specialist at Total Grow Horticultural Lighting, to discuss the future of horticultural lighting, from small scale kitchen counter systems to mega-sized vertical farms.

IGrow PreOwned 6/2/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/2/17

Indoor Farms of America Sales Growth Escalates

Indoor Farms of America is pleased to announce that sales through the first four months of 2017 have exceeded the entire year of 2016, when the company first sold its patented vertical aeroponic indoor farm equipment.

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The Future of British Farming: Accentuate The Technology and Eliminate The Subsidy

The future of British agriculture lies not in an annual £3 billion infusion of inefficient subsidies and misallocated capital via the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Union’s farm subsidy programme. Rather, the UK has the potential to re-pivot, refocus and redeploy its capital and energies towards the nation’s value-added agricultural technologies and cutting-edge science capabilities.