Category: Modern Farmer
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One of the recurring questions vertical farming companies face is how they are going to get their locally grown, supposedly healthier wares to more than just those with disposable income. So far, the answers have been few and far between, but that could be changing. Towards the end of last week, ABC7 reported that New…
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PlantLab, a vertical farming company based in The Netherlands, has raised €20 million (~$23,171 USD) in growth capital to scale up its high-tech indoor farming operations and expand to new locations, including the U.S. (h/t Horti Daily) The round was led by De Hoge Dennen Capital. PlantLab said it would use the investment funds to…
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Whether your weekend plans involve golf, Instagram listening parties, or baking yet-another loaf of quarantine bread, add a side dish of food tech news to your agenda to get things started. Here are a final few bits from this past week. Call It Cell-Based Seafood A consumer study by Rutgers University professor William Hallman has…
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A large space in Chicago that formerly housed a Target but has been sitting empty for five years will get a new life growing greens, thanks to a vertical farming company. The Chicago Tribune reported this week that Wilder Fields will turn the 135,000-square-foot space into a vertical farm that grows kale and other leafy…
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Vertical farming company Kalera announced today that it will open a high-tech facility in Houston, Texas in the spring of 2021. According to today’s press release, this will be the largest vertical farming facility in the state. The announcement follows recent news that Kalera is also opening a facility in Atlanta, Georgia in 2021. The…
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Seed & Roe, an indoor farming and aquaponics company, announced today it has rebranded as Upward Farms and plans to build a new headquarter farm in Brooklyn, NY to increase production of both leafy greens and fish. Today’s announcement also comes just as the company has closed a $15 million funding round led by Prime…
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Ultra-Violet light is having a moment because of its germ and virus killing capabilities. While there is a lot of interest in using UV light inside food delivery lockers and vehicles, a Norwegian company called Saga Robotics is using UV light to kill off mildew on crops like strawberries and grapes. We came across Saga’s…
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Hong Kong-based Aspara, which makes high-tech, tabletop-sized farming units for homes, is now shipping devices across the U.S. through retailers like Home Depot, Wayfair, and via its own website. The Spoon flagged Aspara back in January as a company to watch in the up-and-coming at-home farming space because of the device’s small size, lowish price…
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Singapore agtech is about to get an investment shot in arm, one that could give the whole world a clearer vision of alternative farming’s role in our future food system. Enterprise Singapore, the government agency committed to startups, said last week it will invest roughly $40 million USD into agtech and aquaculture companies, according to…
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Agtech startup AppHarvest this week announced a partnership with the Dutch government, the state of Kentucky, and several other organizations including universities to turn Appalachia into an “ag-tech epicenter,” according to the Louisville Courier Journal. The partnership comes just as AppHarvest is building out its massive 2.76-million-square foot indoor farming facility in Morehead, KY that’s…
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One of the many ways COVID-19 has impacted the meal journey this year is how we get our meat. The pandemic illustrated the shortcomings of our over-consolidated supply chain and the inequalities experienced by the people working in industrial meat-processing facilities. If there is a “fortunately” to be found at all with the pandemic, it’s…
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Thanks to the pandemic, we’ve seen a surge in online grocery shopping and a rising demand from consumers to know more about where their food comes from than they’d traditionally get from a big-box grocery retailer. At the same time, local farmers are struggling to make up revenue lost during shelter-in-place mandates that closed restaurants…
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