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The Indoor Farm Revolution
Coronavirus chaos has spurred a grow-your-own food movement — and space-age hydroponic technology is rising to meet it.
Irish Vertical Farming Technology Startup Farmony Signs European Distribution Agreement With US LED Horticultural Lighting And Vertical Farming Equipment Provider Sananbio
Irish Agtech company Farmony has signed a European distribution deal with Sananbio for their vertical farming Radix systems. The Dublin based startup, established in 2018, will incorporate Sananbio’s technology into their controlled environment vertical farming solutions
Variety of Healthy Foods From Vertical Farming Platform
When talking about technology, it's easy to focus on things like computers, smartphones, apps and the growing number of smart gadgets around the house. But technology is far-reaching and can influence and change traditional sectors quickly, one of them being the agricultural sector.
How An Unlikely Farmer Is Plotting The Future of Food
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food
US: Florida - Kalera Opens New Vertical Farming Facility In Orlando
Built in record time, the new farm has the highest production volume capacity in the Southeastern United States
Institute For Advanced Learning And Research And Virginia Tech Launch The Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center in Danville
The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) is partnering with the Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center to launch a Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center on IALR’s campus in Danville, Virginia
Indoor Farming Companies Rank High On FoodTech 500 List
At No. 3 on the list, Bowery Farming, New York, N.Y., is an automated, indoor vertical farm as well. Ranking No. 125, Crop One Holdings includes the FreshBox Farms brand of leafy greens grown and distributed to retailers from its indoor Massachusetts farm
Autogrow Launches Wireless Smart Sensor Network Into US $40 Billion Global Greenhouse Market
“We’ve advocated for a long time in the industry that you can’t manage what you don’t measure and the decisions you make are only as good as the sensor technology gathering the data
A.G. Kawamura Joins Board of Indoor Growing Tech Company
“A.G.’s extensive expertise in innovative farming and sustainable agriculture will be invaluable to the Agt3 Holdings Board,” CEO Ed Horton said in the release
How Stockholm Wants To Be 'The Green Food Tech Hub of The Future'
At Grönska, 1.3 million plants are grown each year in long rows of racks filled with stacked drawers. This hall in Huddinge in Stockholm county is not just a business premise, but a high-tech vertical farm
SWITZERLAND: Migros Basel And Growcer Launch Joint Vertical Farming Project
Switzerland's first "Robotic Vertical Farm" is currently being built in a hall located on the Wolf site in Basel. From sowing to irrigation and harvesting, machines take over the work fully automatically
Europe Can Be At The Heart of Tech With Purpose
“Some say China has all the data, and the US has all the money. But in Europe, we have purpose.”
CES 2020: The Planty Cube Aims to Make Vertical Farming More Modular And Automated
Like other vertical farms out there, the Planty Cube environment contains rows and shelves of planters stacked inside a shipping container
"I Like To Call Us A Technology Partner Instead of Equipment Supplier"
Netled CEO Niko Kivioja was interviewed by the International Association of Vertical Farming, AVF, about the future of Netled and vertical farming. In the first part of the interview, Niko’s thoughts on Netled and the future of the company are shared
How 16 Initiatives Are Changing Urban Agriculture Through Tech And Innovation
The United Nations estimates (PDF) that nearly 10 billion people will live in cities by 2050. According to a recent publication by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition
Mpatisi Moyo Joins Autogrow
Working closely with the wider R&D team and alongside the Director of Agronomy & Crop Science, Dr. Tharindu Weeraratne; Mpatisi will focus on yield prediction models and computer vision enhanced products
Autogrow Appoints Two Product Specialists For Growing Market
Autogrow has appointed Steve Gardner - Head of Product and Sophie Stanley - Head of Product Marketing, to support the company’s continued global growth. Both are members of the Senior Leadership Team
Purdue University Mechanical Engineering Technology Grad Developing Food Technology For NASA’s Mars Missions
A graduate student who gained experience growing plants for a Purdue Polytechnic research project is now helping NASA develop microgravity food production technology to sustain astronauts during long missions to Mars
The Ultimate Farming Tool Is Data
The agricultural food production mechanisms and their tight dependency on nature have always left little room for operational agility. Now, thanks to Agritech, and more specifically, data, farmers can meet supply and demand efficiently, and reduce losses and uncertainty from plagues and bad weather
The Next Hot Tech Career? Farming
Back in 1870, almost half the U.S. workforce was employed in agriculture — today just two percent of Americans work on farms