Taylor Farms, North America’s largest grower and processor of leafy greens, has entered the CEA industry with an investment in a hydroponic lettuce grower.
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Even when prices are stable, energy can be a large proportion of business expenditure. Could this crisis change CEA’s main trade-off, improve productivity and reduce resource consumption for higher energy bills?
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The We Grow Here platform & community easily connect new growers with landowners with farmers in and around the city.
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The future of R&D for the controlled environment agriculture industry has arrived — and it’s in space.
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To potentially lower lighting costs, a team at the University of Georgia asked a simple question: if the crop receives more light than the required daily light integral (DLI) one day, can we lower the DLI target for the following day?
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Planted Detroit is strengthening Detroit’s local food system by shortening the supply chain, and growing food closer to consumers.
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Feeding astronauts isn't as straightforward as you may think, find out why.
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By now, it’s been well established that indoor farming is a booming sector with huge potential for impact, but one dirty secret: its massive energy needs.
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Cities must leverage technological innovations – particularly indoor vertical farms, greenhouses and precision-farming tools – to feed their growing populations.
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This vertical farming startup used Agritecture Designer to actualize their farm and overcome the numerous urban agricultural hurdles.
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Takeaways from the USDA’s new Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production’s (OUAIP) inaugural public meeting.
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Even though there is evidence behind vertical farms significantly reducing freshwater withdrawal and the loss of biosphere integrity from pesticides, the main area of concern is greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use.
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Plastic in fields—such as for mulching, enclosing hoop houses, and constructing greenhouses is drastically changing the rural landscape.
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Agritecture had the pleasure of speaking with Councilman Ben Kallos on the significance of NYC establishing an urban agriculture office and an urban agriculture advisory board.
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Agritecture and TensoAI are pleased to announce the launch of a new partnership to build crop models that will help reduce uncertainty for farmers moving into the future.
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Will the pale orange glow of traditional high-pressure sodium (HPS) lighting become a thing of the past? Vertically Urban thinks so.
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This 9-step guide to CEA facility design ensures that you “know before you grow” and that you're well-prepared to act on unexpected challenges.
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From urban food forests and indoor aquaponic farms to roof gardens on top of supermarkets: when it comes down to sustainable urban agriculture, the possibilities are endless.
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What if we could create a replicable vertical farming model in which data was collected from all activities and published openly to transparently showcase benefits and areas for improvement?
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Will new technologies like Big Data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things help urban farming really take hold?
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Temporary public spaces have become the new attraction. Here’s how two architects plan to use these spaces for food production.
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Despite Detroit’s reputation as a mecca for urban agriculture, a new University of Michigan-led analysis found that community and private gardens occupy less than 1% of vacant land.
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Flashback to only 1 year ago: Ukrainians were confident that their country would soon take its rightful place as an agricultural superpower. Today, Ukraine’s food system is in peril. And, with it, so is the global food system.
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As winners of the USDA’s recent grant, TFFJ will use this funding to develop numerous farms across three schools in the Far Rockaways.
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Farms that used regenerative agriculture practices have shown to produce crops with higher levels of certain vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals.
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Here’s a simplified methodology for calculating your farm’s carbon footprint from the Agritecture team.
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People have started to see CEA as one of the keys to solving major issues that have worldwide impacts.
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Here are Agritecture’s tips for cutting your farming costs.
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