Rising Energy Costs & Climate Change - Technology in Indoor Farms
While indoor farming offers numerous advantages, it's essential to acknowledge one of its major challenges: energy consumption. The controlled environment required for optimal crop growth demands a significant amount of energy for lighting, heating, and cooling. In an era when sustainability is a top priority, finding solutions to mitigate rising energy costs and reduce the environmental impact of indoor farming is crucial.
Empowering the Next Generation in Agriculture's Tech-Driven (r)evolution
As we look towards the future of agriculture, one crucial concern arises - how do we make this age-old industry more appealing to the younger generation? Agriculture has been the backbone of societies for centuries, but today, it's facing a challenge as more people are leaving the field than joining. However, we believe there's a path forward to revitalize this essential sector and make it not just sustainable, but also attractive to the tech-savvy youth of today.
Why Growers May Lose Herbicide Options Due to EPA's Strategy for Endangered Species Act Compliance
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) development of an updated Endangered Species Act (ESA) workplan could cause growers to lose herbicide options. The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) encourages growers to study the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed herbicide strategy for Endangered Species Act compliance and comment on how it may affect their operations.
Pilot Testing Opportunity: Freya Cultivation Systems Unveils New Greenhouse Cultivation System Aiming at 200 kg/m2/year Leafy Greens Yields
The AEROFRAME doubles the cultivation area by utilizing three-dimensional structures (A-Frames) and mobile proprietary ultrasonic sprayers, which not only increase productivity but also deliver all the benefits of aeroponic irrigation, such as increased disease resistance and resource savings.
Alliances and Innovation Headline 2nd Annual Edition of CEA Summit East in Virginia
Co-hosted by Indoor Ag-Con and the Virginia Tech- IALR Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center, the 2nd annual CEA Summit East attracted 240 attendees from 33 U.S. states, Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden, including growers, educators, scientists, Virginia Cooperative Extension specialists, suppliers, engineers, tech specialists, architect/developers and other industry members.
Robotics Plus launches Prospr: multi-use autonomous vehicle for sustainable orchard and vineyard production
Autonomous modular vehicle platform for agriculture automates a variety of tree crop tasks, including intelligent spraying - to improve efficiency and alleviate labor challenges
More than 70% of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research across 8 countries reveals
-Climate impacts estimated to have reduced farmer incomes by 15.7% on average over the past two years
-Most pressing short-term challenges dominated by economic uncertainty and cost concerns
-Yet 4 in 5 farmers have already taken or plan to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Revolutionizing Agriculture with Smart Spray Technology: SmartCow's Innovative Solution
The agriculture sector faces unprecedented challenges in the form of climate change, labor shortages, and rising food demand. To address these issues head-on, SmartCow, a leading player in AI engineering, is introducing a groundbreaking smart spray system. This system is designed to transform conventional farming into a more efficient and sustainable practice.
Semifinalists Announced for $1 Million USD Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
This year's Challenge received over 900 submissions from 78 countries as multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs submitted their innovative approaches to transform the food system towards better nutrition security and planetary health.
Solinftec celebrates FIRA USA with Solix elected best robot of the event
The global company presented its Solix robot to the audience, of around two thousand people, who voted for the technology as the best in FIRA. Voting took place during the event program.
The Agritech Firm, Elicit Plant Announces the Launch of EliSun-a: The New Agro-Ecological Innovation That Increases Sunflower Yields
Capitalizing on its exceptional results, BEST-a, which helps corn to resist drought and offers unique gains in productivity yields, is now available in Europe, Brazil and Ukraine. Elicit Plant aims to pursue its growth with the launch, by the end of the year, of its new innovative solution for sunflower field crops - EliSun-a.
The Problem-Solving Powers of Variable Speed Drives
Lei Gommers, Global Business Development Manager, Agriculture, ABB Drives explores the pivotal role that variable speed drives (VSDs) working with electric motors can play in addressing the agricultural sector's toughest challenges.
Terra Drone Fully Expands into Agriculture Sector; Business Transfer from Avirtech
Japan's Terra Drone Corporation has announced the launch of a new service, Terra Agri, aimed at sustainable agriculture globally to advance technology-driven precision agriculture from Southeast Asia to the world. Avirtech specializes in providing pesticide spraying and mapping services using drones. And developed the world's first gimbal-based spraying for high precision, accurate within a spray radius of 10 cm.
Xometry's Thomas Introduces "Build America, Buy America" Category On Its Popular Thomasnet.com Sourcing Platform
• New Category On Thomasnet.com Makes It Easy For Enterprise Buyers To Identify Manufacturers That Are Compliant With The BABA Initiative
• Part Of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, BABA Requires Federally Funded Infrastructure Projects To Source Materials, Components And Products Produced In the U.S.
• Designation Reflects Thomas' Commitment To Further Strengthen America's Domestic Supply Chain In Support Of The Country's 600,000+ Small- And Mid-Size Manufacturers
Contributing to a cleaner energy future: Verbio kicks off 2023 harvest season
The company sources the feedstock from local growers within a 60-mile-radius of its production facilities.
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