What to Look for in a Greenhouse Light Plan

09/14/21, 05:35 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Monitoring & Growing | Controlled Environments, | Greenhouses, | Grow Lights, | LED

When it comes to lighting a greenhouse or any indoor grow facility, the number of factors to consider can seem overwhelming. Should you choose intelligent LEDs? Should you go old-school with HPS?

Basics of Factory and Farm Automation

09/09/21, 05:51 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Precision Farming | Automation

Even with generations of accumulated knowledge, farming continues to require innovation and informed decision making. Thanks to a plethora of scientific discoveries and inventions, farmers are now better at their jobs than ever before.

Freight Farms Case Study - Lotus House

09/07/21, 05:26 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Processing & Supply Chain | Containers, | Controlled Environments, | Urban Farming

In 2019, the Lotus House community expanded its resources and programming with the arrival of a Greenery container farm. The farm is the cornerstone of the nonprofit’s educational programs for young residents, inspiring their curiosity about science, plants and nutrition.

Vertical Farming and the Future of Automation in Agriculture

08/26/21, 05:34 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, | Automation

A new generation of farmers are rising to the sustainability challenge. This agricultural revolution presents the transition from traditional farming to futuristic high-tech artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.

3 Challenges of Vertical Farming and Their Solutions

08/25/21, 05:38 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Processing & Supply Chain | sustainable

There are challenges that vertical farmers face that they must solve to meet those future food needs and to remain sustainable. Here are some of the challenges, along with potential solutions, of vertical farming.

Cosy Climate in the Greenhouse - Climate Sensors Ensure Optimum Growing Conditions

08/17/21, 05:21 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Monitoring & Growing | Controlled Environments, | Greenhouses, | Sensors

CO2, humidity and temperature sensors must provide accurate and reliable measurement results to the climate control system in the greenhouse. Inaccurate or even false readings impact on productivity and, in the worst case, can jeopardize the entire harvest.

7 Strategies to Improve Cannabis Lighting

08/12/21, 05:37 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Monitoring & Growing | Cannabis, | lighting

While there are lighting fundamentals that apply no matter what type of facility growers are operating, there are certain strategies that indoor growers must use to be successful that are different than approaches greenhouse growers take.

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Fluence by OSRAM Reveals Multiyear Global Research Results on Broad-Spectrum Lighting Strategies for Cannabis and Food Crops

08/18/21, 05:53 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Monitoring & Growing | Cannabis, | Grow Lights, | Research and Reports

In partnership with leading scientific research institutions around the world, Fluence explores broad-spectrum white light performance in select crops, cultivars

To Boldly Grow: Innovations With Promise for Sustainable Agriculture

08/13/21, 05:36 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Precision Farming | AgTech, | Technology Discussions

To boldly grow, the world needs to implement these new innovations with the ultimate goal of cleaner, greener agriculture.

AeroFarms and Nokia Unveil Partnership for Next Generation AI-Enabled Plant Vision Technology

08/06/21, 06:28 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Monitoring & Growing | AI, | machine vision

Ground-breaking technology partnership will significantly improve plant yields and quality in AeroFarms’ vertical farms through analytics, AI, drones and wireless networking.

Sustainable start-up Light Science Technologies announced as finalist in Vertical Farming World Awards

09/15/21, 05:15 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Monitoring & Growing | Light Science Technologies

UK AgTech specialist Light Science Technologies (LST) has been announced as a finalist in the forthcoming 2021 Vertical Farming World Awards, in recognition of its sustainable grow light range nurturGROW.

VERTICAL FARMING SET TO TAKE OFF

09/13/21, 08:38 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Monitoring & Growing

Organisers of next week's Vertical Farming World Congress on 20-22 September online are confident that recent developments mean the sector is about to expand even faster than anticipated.

Grow It York project brings vertical farming to community container park.

09/09/21, 07:38 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Processing & Supply Chain

The farm forms part of the FixOurFood programme, a leading food systems research collaboration led by the University of York, funded for 5 years through the Transforming UK Food Systems Strategic Priorities Fund.

Compact and Capable - CIMON PLC - S

Compact and Capable - CIMON PLC - S

CIMON-PLC is an industrial control device based on international standards of IEC61131. It is designed for a plant site that requires industry-leading reliability. CIMON-PLC is optimized for Industry 4.0 and enhances the intelligence of industrial sites.

E+E Elektronik

(Schaumburg, IL, United States of America)

Lowering of energy costs, acceleration of growth and extension of the possible storekeeping duration can be optimised by the precise measurement of humidity, CO2-content and temperature. Optimum basic conditions for animals and plants ensure best agricultural products. As different applications demand various adopted solutions for optimization of agricultural processes, E+E Elektronik provides a broad portfolio of agricultural monitoring products