Indoor & Vertical Farming Articles, Stories & News

Senix ToughSonic Sensors Help Farmers Reduce Risk and Increase Profits

08/15/17, 06:01 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting
Farming can be a business of high risk, low profit margins, and lots of debt. Researchers are now experimenting with technology featuring Senix Corporation's ToughSonic ultrasonic distance sensors to reduce the risks and increase the profits of farming through high-throughput automated plant phenotyping.

Agtech companies link to bring full automation to indoor farms

08/14/17, 05:30 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Big Data, vertical farming
Brooklyn-based Agrilyst and Montreal-based Motorleaf have chosen to openly exchange data.

ADS Hosts Harrisonville, Missouri Plant Grand Opening

08/14/17, 05:28 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting
"This new plant allows us to meet the growing demand for all of our products in the region, while helping reduce the cost and time of delivery to our customers," stated Joe Chlapaty, Chairman and CEO, ADS.

Agtech: What the umbrella term really means

08/11/17, 06:05 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators
Alex Sampson for The Weekly Times: Monsanto Australia technology boss James Nielsen says agtech is "about smart farmers getting smarter using digital technology".

Premier Crop Systems Announces Syngenta Ventures Capital Investment, Launches Breakthrough On-farm Field Trial Technology

08/11/17, 06:01 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting
Enhanced Learning Blocks enable automation of large-scale, replicated and locally relevant field trials for better agronomic decision-making

Agrytech Demo Day Features 17 Business Solutions In the Agri-Food Sector

08/10/17, 05:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Supply Chain
The 17 startups went through a 2-month Bootcamp where they learned different business methodologies and connected with business and sector experts.

DuPont Acquires Ag Software Company Granular to Accelerate Digital Ag Strategy and Help Farmers Operate More Profitable Businesses

08/10/17, 05:55 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Investing, Software and Smarts
Transaction Reflects DuPonts Commitment to Shaping the Agtech Market; Granulars CEO Sid Gorham to Lead Digital Agriculture for DuPont

Making vertical farming viable

08/09/17, 06:16 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, vertical farming
Control Engineering UK looks at the role that machine control has played in helping make vertical farming a commercially viable option.

Sentera Adds Late-Season Data Capture Options to DJI Phantom 4 Series Drones

08/09/17, 06:15 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting
Double 4K Sensor's fully customizable filters offer impeccable crop health insights

Overwatch Imaging Successfully Completes SOAR Oregon Program for Stabilized Multispectral Camera System Development

08/09/17, 06:13 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting
Real world wide area NDVI mapping. 20 cm resolution, 1,000 acres per minute.

Farmers turn to artificial intelligence to grow better crops

08/07/17, 06:55 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Big Data
Matt McFarland for CNN Tech: NatureSweet, which grows tomatoes on six farms in the United States and Mexico, is using artificial intelligence to better control pests and diseases in its greenhouses.

Agtech Perspectives From Two Days With the Crop Chemicals Crowd

08/03/17, 09:14 PM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Microbes
Frank Vinluan for Xconomy: The past year has seen market launches for microbial products developed to help plants resist stresses from pests and harsh environmental conditions.

No 'game of drones:' The serious future of unmanned aerial vehicles in agriculture

08/01/17, 11:57 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | drones, uav
Drones may not replace the honeybee, but dont bet on a future of agriculture that doesnt increasingly depend on their capacity to reinvent 21st century farming.

Precision farming via satellite imaging

07/31/17, 05:47 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Big Data, drones
Phys.org: Thanks to research with ESA on new cameras, hyperspectral cameras flying on drones are now able to see details as small as 4-5 cm.

Trimble Adds U.S. Distributors to its Global Vantage Distribution Network for Agriculture

07/31/17, 05:46 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting
Vantage Distributors Provide Farmers with Simplified, Integrated Precision Ag Solutions that Increase Farm Efficiencies and Productivity

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