AI-Driven Vertical Farming Project Secures $1M In Funding
Swegreen has secured funding from Vinnova for a project aimed at further developing its platform for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven vertical farming.
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Urban Oasis Secures 10.5 MSEK To Build The Food Production Platform For The 21st Century
Urban Oasis, the Swedish agtech startup building the food production platform for the 21st century, announced today that it has secured 10.5 MSEK from a syndicate of existing and new investors.
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Advancing Vertical Farming with Urban Crop Solutions
Agritecture sat down with Tom Debusschere , CEO & Co-Investor at Urban Crop Solutions , prior to Agritecture Xchange . Tom will be speaking on the panel, Controlled Environment Agriculture: Deep Dive.
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Iron Ox Raises $20M And Announces New Robotic Greenhouse
Iron Ox, a company active in robotics and AI-enabled farming with a mission to solve food insecurity, announced the closing of $20 million in a Series B round.
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Engineering A Circular Food Economy
Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s GHG emissions but is often left out of the climate change conversation. Urban farming shows great potential in reducing the distance food covers in reaching consumers, thus reducing waste and increasing circularity.
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Key Differences Of Growing Vegetables vs. Cannabis Indoors
The similarities and differences between growing cannabis and vegetables indoors.
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AgroUrbana Plans To Supply Farm With 100% Renewable Energy
AgroUrbana has three different approaches to supply their large operation with 100% renewable energy.
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Bayer and Temasek Launch Seed Company For Vertical Farming
Temasek and Bayer to develop vegetable seed varieties for vertical farming.
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Vertical Farming Is Taking Off In Italy Through Education
Indoor and vertical farming can be a great solution to produce high-quality food close to Italy’s markets.
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The Critical Technologies That Sparked The CEA Revolution
This is the second part of a two-part series looking at how CEA has emerged as a viable, contemporary agricultural practice over the past 50 years.
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Feeding The World With Controlled Environments
This is the first part of a two-part series looking at how CEA has emerged as a viable, contemporary agricultural practice over the past 50 years.
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This Robot Uses AI To Pollinate Greenhouse Tomatoes
An Israeli company that has created an autonomous pollinating robot has started its first trials in Australia.
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The Real Values Of Urban Agriculture
Some innovative urban ag technologies such as hydroponic systems, solar greenhouses, and vertical farms aim to solve issues by increasing food production while using less natural resources to do so. What sort of technological and social changes occur when you urbanize farming?
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From Amazon to AgTech: How This Executive Turned Her Side Hustle Into A Career
How does a veteran digital media executive turn her passion for urban farming, impact investing, travel, and experiential learning into a career?
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Revol Greens' New Greenhouse To Grow 10 Million Pounds Of Lettuce A Year
Revol Greens is growing leafy greens In massive, sustainable greenhouses
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Switzerland's First Robotic Vertical Farm
Collaborating with the cooperative retailer Migros Basel, Growcer is currently developing the first Robotic Vertical Farm in Switzerland.
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Why Vertical Farming Is A Fast-Growing Sector In The UK
Being able to produce crops 365 days a year, without the need for pesticides or much human intervention, while being unaffected by the weather appeals to the UK population.
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How Hydroponics Can Help Feed the World While Saving Water
On a traditional farm, it takes more than 15 times that amount of water to grow a head of lettuce. If hydroponics systems were adopted just across the lettuce industry, they could save billions of gallons of water each year in the United States alone.
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Vertical Farm In Liverpool Is Growing Food Underground
Needing no soil or sun, an underground farm in Liverpool challenges traditional methods
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Largest Vegetable Greenhouse In The U.S. Constructed in New York
Havecon Horticultural Projects is nearing completion on the construction of Mastronardi Produce Ltd.’s new Green Empire Farms (GEF), a high-tech greenhouse located in Oneida, NY.
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World's First Floating Dairy Farm Could Help Cities Adapt To Climate Change
Concept allows food to be grown near cities despite flooding, sea level rise, land shortages.
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A Trade Association To Advocate For Vertical Farming Industry
The vertical farming industry is about to get its first trade group, the American Association for Urban and Vertical Farming.
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Babylon Micro Farms: A New Approach To Urban Food Production
Babylon Micro-Farms, a startup, sells 32” x 66” x 96” tall machines that use controlled environment hydroponics to grow leafy greens, herbs and edible flowers.
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UAE Prepares To Build A Greenhouse On Mars
The Mars Science City project falls within the UAE’s objectives to lead the global scientific race to take people to Mars, and is part of the Mars 2117 Strategy.
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Ponix Farms Is Bringing Local Produce to Food Deserts In Atlanta
Ponix is a “food utility company” that creatively uses hydroponics technology to grow produce in solar-powered container farms, not unlike shipping containers.
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A New York Story: Discover the Hydroponic Pizza
Jeffrey Tucker, owner of Stone Bridge Farm in Schuylerville, NY and Stone Bridge Pizza & Salad in Manhattan, worked with Henry Gordon-Smith, Managing Director of Agritecture to build hydroponic greenhouses on a 425-acre farm, in upstate NY.
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The Second Generation Of Vertical Farming
The second generation of vertical farming is approaching. Here’s why it’s important.
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Bowery Opens Its Largest Indoor Farm In Baltimore
This Google Ventures-backed indoor farming startup just opened its biggest farm yet. The Baltimore farm is 3.5 times as large as Bowery’s formerly largest farm—and is the latest attempt to make indoor farming work as a way to disrupt the agricultural system.
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