Vertical farming has faced a years-long struggle to gain support and achieve growth. But things are looking up for this once ...
“The world is asking farmers to fight climate change by reducing tillage and planting cover crops,” says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist. “Governments want you to adopt vertical ...
A Columbia microbiologist, he popularized “vertical farming” — raising crops in tall buildings — to remediate climate change ...
Vertical farming supports sustainability and feeding a growing population, but needs careful deployment for optimal ROI, says ...
The Netherlands leads the way in supplying year-round fresh produce from these structures, and is now the second biggest food exporter in the world. These are a half-way house to vertical farming ...
Some consider vertical farming to be the farming of the future. It’s exactly what it sounds like; instead of being grown in fields, plants are grown indoors in vertical stacks. If you’re the ...
Vertical farming could be the Segway of agriculture ... building to prevent reinventing the wheel each time, making each structure a one-off expensive prototype. The capital burn is enormous ...
On the latest episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Irving Fain, founder and CEO of the vertical farming company Bowery, explains how being an outsider to agriculture has helped him ...
Vertical farming is pivotal to helping feed the world as arable land decreases. Companies like Local Bounti use hybrid farming technologies to grow food more sustainably. Investing in vertical ...
Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Italy have proposed to combine vertical farming with solar power generation from PV greenhouses in an effort to increase land utilization.