Category: Modern Farmer
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Last week, the USDA ruled that organisms gene-edited by Crispr technology will not be subject to the same regulations as genetically modified organisms (GMO). US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said that the USDA currently does not, and has no plans to, regulate plants or animals “that could otherwise have been developed through traditional breeding techniques.” In other words,…
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Climate-controlled indoor farms are just one element of the rising movement for real food.
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New Jersey-based Bowery is on track to open the world’s most technologically advanced indoor farm.
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What does a smallholder farmer in Kenya do when they want to know the best way to control weeds in their coffee crop? If they use Wefarm, all they have to do is shoot off a text. Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, announced on Tuesday that it had raised $5 million in seed…
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As Augean Robotics Co-Founder and CEO Charles Andersen explains it, when you work on a farm, you do a lot of high dexterity activity—like picking fruit. But you also spend a lot of time just running stuff like harvested fruit or equipment back and forth. He should know: Anderson grew up on a 100-plus acre…
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“Nanofabrication” is probably not the first word that comes to mind when you think of farming or agriculture. But it’s how Teralytic builds a wireless sensor that detects nitrogen, phosphate and potassium (NPK) levels in soil to help farmers reduce waste and improve their yields. The Teralytic sensor is a battery-powered, meter long device that…
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For just about a year now, Central Market in Dallas has tested out offering produce that was grown on-site in a Growtainer. Evidently, that partnership has gone so well that Central Market is making the relationship more permanent and expanding it with the addition of another Growtainer. Growtainers are modified shipping containers that provide a…
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Worms get a pretty bad rap. Probably because the only times you read about them are when they’re getting extracted from various body parts or when people are forced to eat them on reality shows. But worms, it turns out, are pretty miraculous creatures that can help farms and wineries treat wastewater in an energy-efficient way…
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There is a milk glut in the U.S.. Technology has allowed dairy farmers to produce more milk than ever, but all this abundance has caused milk prices to plummet. It’s getting so bad that some farmers face selling off their cows. While technology helped create this crisis, perhaps SomaDetect‘s technology can help struggling dairy farmers…
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It was estimated at one point that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson ate upwards of 821 pounds of cod per year. He’s certainly an outlier, but as global demands for seafood increase, fish farms are rising to meet that challenge, with the aquaculture market projected to reach $219.42 billion by 2022. Already, half the seafood eaten…
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“Farm to Table” Is “Farm on a Table” thanks to this startup’s stylish new creation.
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By Gabe Blanchet, Co-Founder, CEO of Grove By now, most of us have heard about how pornography helped shape the development of the Internet. While the exact percentage of how much of the web’s early traffic was made up of porn is still debated to this day, what isn’t up for debate is the outsized influence…
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