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Category: Vertical Farming

  • Feb 1, 2021

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Fifth Season Expands the Grocery Footprint for Its Vertically Grown Greens

    Fifth Season, a company using vertical farming and robotics to grow greens indoors, just announced a sizable expansion for its leafy green products in Giant Eagle Retail stores. As of today, Fifth Season greens will be available in over 75 Giant Eagle and Market District stores across Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio metro…

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  • Jan 22, 2021

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Vertical Field Signs Agreement to Bring Controlled Ag to the UAE

    Israel-based ag tech company Vertical Field announced today that it has signed an agreement with Emirates Smart Solutions & Technologies (ESST), which develops high-tech agricultural projects around the Persian Gulf, to pilot vertical farms in the United Arab Emirates. The first farm will be installed as part of a research, development, and training center in…

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  • Jan 4, 2021

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Abandoned Spaces and Automation: What to Expect for Indoor Farming in 2021

    Controlled-environment agriculture — also simply known as indoor farming — had a big year both in terms of activity and investment dollars. While once we might have questioned the sector’s economic viability and ability to actually feed a growing global population, a lot of those doubts have diminished and indoor ag in its many forms…

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  • Dec 24, 2020

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Indoor Farming Got Big in 2020. Literally

    One thing we can say about indoor farming in 2020: it grew, both in market size and investment. At the start of the year, a big part of our attention focused on the potential of smaller vertical farms in grocery stores and consumer homes. Writing on the topic at the end of Dec. 2019, I…

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  • Dec 23, 2020

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    UbiQD’s Quantum Dot Tech Is an Electricity Free Lighting Option for Greenhouses

    While costs are coming down for controlled environment agriculture, electricity remains one of the highest because it has to power the LEDs that provide the lighting formula for plant growth. But a materials science company called UbiQD wants to change that by replacing electricity with a more efficient means of lighting: quantum dots. Quantum dots…

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  • Dec 15, 2020

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Bowery Announces Its ‘Most Technologically Advanced’ Indoor Farm

    Controlled-environment agriculture company Bowery is set to open its largest indoor farm to date. The new facility will be located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, turning a non-arable industrial site into a farm that will grow leafy greens throughout the year. A spokesperson for Bowery said that the company does not disclose actual square footage of its…

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  • Dec 15, 2020

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Freight Farms Partners With Arcadia to Provide Growers With Clean Energy Options

    Freight Farms announced today it has partnered with clean energy service Arcadia to offer growers a way to connect their farms to cleaner sources of energy. The new program, available to all Freight Farms customers in the U.S., will let growers synch their utility to one of Arcadia’s wind or solar farms, according to a…

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  • Dec 14, 2020

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    ‘Great Challenge Can Expose Great Opportunity’: AppHarvest’s Jonathan Webb on the Role of Indoor Ag

    For AppHarvest founder and CEO Jonathan Webb, the role of the high-tech greenhouse goes far beyond providing produce to surrounding locales. Over the phone recently, he went into great detail about his company’s role in not just growing plants but also in providing jobs and morale for the community and playing a part in the…

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  • Dec 7, 2020

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    YesHealth Group and Nordic Harvest Are Building ‘Europe’s Largest’ Vertical Farm

    Europe will soon have its largest commercial vertical farming facility to date. Taiwan-based vertical farming company the YesHealth Group announced today via email that, in partnership with Nordic Harvest, it is building out a 14-story, 7,000-square-meter facility on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. YesHealth Group operates a number of vertical farms in Asia and Europe that…

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  • Dec 4, 2020

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Education & Discovery, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Babylon Microfarms Bets on Automation for the Future of Vertical Farming

    What started as a humble tabletop farm at the University of Virginia has since evolved into a major company to watch in the vertical farming space, particularly when it comes to the software piece of the process. Babylon Microfarms has over the last few years garnered quite a bit of attention for its controlled-environment farms…

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  • Nov 19, 2020

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    Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, Featured, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Smart Garden, Vertical Farming

    Rise Gardens Launches a Countertop Version of Its At-Home Smart Growing System

    Rise Gardens is best known for its indoor smart farms that are geared towards the average consumer and roughly the size of your average bookshelf. But those living in small spaces may not be able to easily accommodate another piece of furniture, and with that in mind, Rise released a countertop version of its farm…

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  • Nov 18, 2020

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    Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Swedish Vertical Farming Company Urban Oasis Raises $1.2 Million

    Urban Oasis, an indoor vertical farming company based in Sweden, announced today that it has raised 10.5 million Swedish Krona (~$1.22M USD). Investors include Family Offices Pelarhuset, Anteeo, and Yobi Partners Ltd. Founded in 2017, Urban Oasis built its first indoor vertical farm underneath an apartment complex in Stockholm. The company produces a variety of…

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