Inside The Indoor AgTech Landscape
AgFunder News interviewed Chris Taylor and Michael Rose to find out more about how they created the agtech landscape and things for readers to look out for.
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Fifth Season Raises $35M To Build Its First Commercial-Scale Indoor Vertical Farm
Fifth Season (originally founded as RoBotany) has come out of stealth mode with $35 million in funding and plans to build its first commercial-scale indoor vertical farm to be located outside Pittsburgh, in a historically steel-focused town.
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Exclusive: Agritecture Interview With Manhattan's Largest Outdoor Urban Farm
In this exclusive Agritecture interview, we speak with Jonathan Sumner the farmer at Riverpark Farm. He tells us about the unique relationship between the farm and the restaurant and how they ensure the freshest ingredients are provided.
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New Discovery Could Make HVAC Heat Exchangers 5x More Efficient
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Brown University have discovered a simple way to give a major boost to turbulent heat exchange.
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The Benefits Of Solarizing Greenhouses With Photovoltaic Films
Three French horticultural partners are trying to use the sun to its foremost by installing ASCA photovoltaic films at a commercial greenhouse.
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10 Technologies That Combat Climate Change While Feeding The World's Population
A new study from the World Bank and UN finds we’ll need ways to boost yields faster than ever before to prevent agricultural emissions from soaring.
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Hungary Plans €1 Billion Greenhouse City Powered By Renewable Energy
Hungary has revealed plans to build a new carbon-neutral greenhouse-filled farming city that will be powered by renewable energy sources.
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The Economics of Produce: Harnessing Technology to Lower Production Costs
As the global population grows, the world’s farmers are searching for new ways to feed everyone. Despite recent technological innovations in the farming industry, including vertical farms and the use of agri-robots, food insecurity remains a major issue in the 21st century.
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LettUs Grow Is Using Aeroponics To Build Farms Of The Future
LettUs Grow was founded to tackle the global problems of food waste and supply chain inefficiency after the team learned that around 50% of bagged salad bought in the UK ends up being thrown in the bin.
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Grow Computer Platform Is The First Digital Operating System For Indoor Agriculture
In a recent interview with GrowComputer, we learn more about some of the different products they are working on.
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This Indoor Garden Uses Biomimicry to Create a High-yield Solution
An interview with Hexagrow Urban Farming, the company behind an indoor growing system called the Living Farming Tree.
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Soilless Agriculture: An In-depth Overview
This article mainly focuses on the typical hydroponic cultivation methods you can use, their advantages, and a little about aquaponics and organic methods.
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Vertical Farming Employs Technology To Keep Costs Down
Vertical farming is a key tool to meet the world's food needs at a time when the population is rising and the climate is changing.
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How To Use Seawater To Grow Food In The Desert
This spot in the Jordanian desert, just a kilometre from the Israeli border and 15km inland of the Red Sea, may be one of the most surprising places on Earth to start a farm. It’s also one that, in some ways, makes perfect sense.
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Welcome to the Fourth Agricultural Revolution -- And What That Means
UK environment secretary Michael Gove has urged industry to embrace the potential of a fourth agricultural revolution
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New Wave of AgTech Startups are Putting Robots in the Fields
A four-wheel robot dubbed "Tom" uses GPS, artificial intelligence and smartphone technology to digitally map the field to inspect wheat crop for weeds and pests.
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The Hidden Potential Of Augmented Reality In Farming
AR may be the latest craze for the visual entertainment industry, but it is also has a very promising future for plant cultivation.
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'GrowStrip' Brings New Level of Control and Automation to Indoor Growing
The GrowStrip aims to make indoor growing smart, simple, and shareable for farmers, enthusiasts, researchers, and students around the world.
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Microgrids Can Provide 90% of a Neighborhood's Energy Needs, Study Finds
The new approach could even pave the way for “100 percent self-sufficiency in power, heat, and water, and 50 percent self-sufficiency in food production”, according to the report’s author.
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Meet The Social Entrepreneur Behind Africa's "Uber For The Farm"
With an app that connects tractor owners to farmers in need, Hello Tractor is hoping to make farming more attractive and lucrative for the next generation of Africa’s farmers.
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30MHz and Hort Americas Partner to Bring Smart Sensing to North American Growers
Commercial horticultural suppliers ‘Hort Americas’ and smart sensing technology providers ‘30MHz’ announced that they’ve partnered to bring the power of real-time, crop-level monitoring to growers across Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico.
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No More False Claims!
GreenTech 2018, Amsterdam’s major horticulture technology conference, just wrapped up last week. For all who couldn’t make it, here is a brief recap that highlights 7 important lessons for the future of vertical farming.
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Can High-Tech Indoor Agriculture Transform Local Food?
New York City is a global leader for indoor agriculture, with farms such as Farm.One, Smallhold and Gotham Greens punctuating the concrete jungle with their innovative farming systems. But as the industry continues to grow, one central point remains unclear: Are New York’s indoor farms destined to o
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Urban Agriculture: Can it Feed Our Cities?
From rooftop gardens and indoor vertical farms to community plots and edible landscapes, urban agriculture is on the rise. As more of the world’s population resides in cities, city farming is touted as a sustainable solution. But does the equation really work?
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China Wraps Up 1-Year Mock Moon Mission to "Lunar Palace"
Volunteers work inside China's Lunar Palace 1 on Jan. 26, 2018. They were participating in a yearlong experiment designed to see how the bioregenerative life support system, in which animals, plants and microorganisms co-exist, works in a lunar environment, as well as the physical and mental conditi
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Is this Space Greenhouse the solution to feeding Astronauts on their Journey to Mars?
Mars is a far more difficult challenge to survive. The red planet is an average of 158 million miles away from Earth, with a small window — just once every 26 months— to launch a relatively quick multi-month mission. Any hiccup in an infrequent supply chain of fresh air, food, and water, su
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Innovative Greenhouses in India Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
In India, a simple greenhouse is transforming lives—creating jobs for women and arming growers against the hot temperatures, long droughts, and torrential downpours caused by climate change.
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Enter Sensei: a new approach to hydroponics and health
A multi-trillion dollar opportunity is emerging at the convergence of food, technology and rapidly evolving consumer behaviour. While many companies are hoping to capitalize on this new market potential, Sensei , a brand new approach to marketing a hydroponic food production company, are p
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