LEDs Have a Growing Impact in Urban Farming

These days, urban dwellers not only want foods that are natural and pesticide-free, they want them grown close to home. They know the good taste and health benefits of fresh produce and realize these qualities do not improve with age.

Plenty Chooses Los Angeles as Next Market for Flavor-Focused Vertical Farm

Plenty is preparing to ramp in the Bay Area after debuting world's most efficient leafy greens farm, designed around flavor. Plenty Los Angeles has plans to begin building its Compton-based farm later this year and serving local communities in late-2020.

Parking Garages Transform Urban Environments with Living Green Walls

Living green walls, such as those created by GSky Plant Systems, offer an exceptional solution to all of these concerns by improving parking garage aesthetics and environmental impact through the use of living plants in innovative designs.

Illumitex Expands FarmVisionAIâ„¢ Platform to Support Widest Range of CEA Grow Facilities

Illumitex now offers its FarmVisionAIâ„¢ separate from lighting so that almost any CEA grower can enjoy the peace of mind of digitally seeing, monitoring, and analyzing every plant, at every moment.

Small Robot Helps Space Plants for Greenhouses and Nurseries.

Ag businesses have also increasingly relied on AI and robots to help perform certain necessary tasks. These robots are typically specialized and designed for one kind of job. One example of this is Harvest Automation's container-moving robot.

RoBotany Builds 60,000-square-foot Vertical Farm in Braddock, Plans Nationwide Expansion as Fifth Season

The company's first urban farm, incubated at Carnegie Mellon University, uses proprietary robotics technology to grow affordable fresh produce for Pittsburgh-area grocery stores and restaurants

UAVOS Unmanned Helicopter for Precision Farming

Agro-drone R22-UV is equipped with a specially developed (for Robinson helicopters) utility to deliver liquid chemicals.

Universal Automation in Agriculture

IoT devices permit growers to assemble more data about the condition of their farms, and IoT is indicating great potential for improving provision delivery and propelling agriculture to utmost productivity.

Hammock Greens Has 6 Farms, and They're Not Done!

Freight Farms has 16 Questions with Aaron & Thomas of Hammock Greens. "We've become known for a few things. I think my personal favorite is Sorrel, specifically red-veined sorrel which has the most vibrant red color. Chefs go nuts for it!"

XAG Drone Fleets Take Off for Large-scale Cotton Defoliation Operation in Xinjiang

This is the world's largest cotton defoliation operation that involves the use of fully autonomous drones to ensure a cost-effective, eco-friendly machine harvest. Up to mid-September, one million hectares of cotton fields have been defoliated with XAG's crop spraying drones

Food Matters Summit - Q&A with SPREAD

What Spread is focused on is fully integrated solutions on a large scale and then also adding key technologies to make the business more profitable - so adding lots of automation, sensors and data collection points.

Shenandoah Growers opens next generation USDA certified indoor BioFarms in Virginia

Leading certified organic indoor agriculture company commences operations in state-of-the-art integrated growing and production facilities.

Rockstart Announces Startups From the 1st Edition of the Agrifood 2019 Program

The program is made up of 7 Deep Dive Week sessions, each of which has a specific focus designed to take the startups through the various stages of business development to make them investment-ready.

WiFi Technology poised to change the indoor growing landscape.

Kind LED Grow Lights has announced the launch of the new K5 Wifi, a massive update to their award-winning K5 XL1000 fixture.

Why Co-Manufacturing Is The Future of Cannabis

In a co-manufacturing facility brands are able to scale and launch more effectively through the use of pooled resources on one vertically integrated facility that can meet all of their business needs.

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