Monitoring & Growing Articles, Stories & News

Vertical Farming Looks to Go Mainstream

10/02/17, 05:48 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Tradeshows and Conferences, vertical farming

Richard Jones for Greenhouse Grower: The summit was a mix of education, advocacy, and policy discussion about urban agriculture - vertical farming in particular - targeted at finding ways to broaden its adoption in cities around the country and around the world.

Proposals welcome for SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing

10/02/17, 05:44 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain

Abstracts sought for presentations in sensors, infrared technology, laser systems, spectral imaging, radar, LiDAR, and photonics research

Indigo Harvests $156M to Boost Agtech R&D, Harness Crop Microbes

09/29/17, 05:32 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | Microbes

Frank Vinluan for Xconomy: Indigo's work focuses on beneficial microbes-the bacteria, viruses, and fungi that naturally coexist with plants. Some of these microbes work with plants, helping them overcome stresses that they face over a growing season.

Go Green with Custom Water Management Applications

09/28/17, 07:25 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | water management

All the Things You Never Knew You Needed for Effective Agricultural Water Management

Illumitex Introduces Digital Horticulture at AgTech Meetings

09/28/17, 05:39 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing

Digital Horticulture Gains Interest with Participation in Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Universal Logic and Agricultural Robotics Announce Deal for 100 Neocortex AI-Based Systems

09/28/17, 05:18 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Harvesting & Transport

Universal Logic has entered a Memorandum of Understanding with Agricultural Robotics to provide one hundred Neocortex® artificial intelligence systems for automation in agriculture.

Are vegetable flats the future?

09/27/17, 05:46 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Harvesting & Transport | vertical farming

Fresh Plaza: Vertical cultivation systems are seen as the solution increasingly often. By working in a controlled environment and on multiple layers, an enormous amount of food can be produced on a small surface.

DN2K Launches DairyInsight to Help Farms Be More Profitable

09/27/17, 05:43 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain

Comprehensive Data Management Platform For Dairy Operators Delivers Complete, Actionable Data

Sustainable Indoor Vertical Farming in Action

09/26/17, 08:36 AM | Monitoring & Growing | Hydroponics, vertical farming

Using natural waste products from one system as the primary input of another has substantial economic advantages and represents a far more environmentally sustainable and resource conservative approach to urban food production.

Here's Why Space Optimization is the Key to Higher Margins

09/26/17, 08:36 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Data Management, Software and Smarts

The biggest thing to get right is sales. And sales are driven by how the space in the farm is utilized. Of course, yield is important, but growers need to understand how crops are performing and how much space they occupy as well, because the two are interconnected.

Microsemi Announces BlueSky GPS Firewall to Provide Security Against GPS Spoofing and Jamming Threats

09/26/17, 05:53 AM | Monitoring & Growing

New Solution Provides Protection Against GPS Incidents Without Requiring a Complete Recapitalization of Deployed GPS Systems

Purdue University's Digital Agriculture Initiative Advances Farming and Food Production With HPE Aruba Solutions

09/26/17, 05:50 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain

Digital Agriculture Program Blends Research, Innovations and Disruptive IoT Technologies to Increase Food Production for a Growing, Global Population

YellowScan & Quantum Systems partner to provide a cutting edge VTOL+ LiDAR integrated solution

09/25/17, 09:01 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing

YellowScan and Quantum Systems combined their R&D expertise to provide a reliable VTOL+LiDAR solution, able to cover large areas and fly longer (up to 60 minutes) for a high quality data acquisition.

Antarctica Is Getting a Farm That Can Grow Produce Even When It's -100 Degrees Fahrenheit Outside

09/25/17, 05:44 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, vertical farming

Futurism: The farm will feature a year-round greenhouse that can grow food for researchers at the Neumayer III polar station on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf.

Land O'Lakes, Inc. Announces Finalists for Drone Challenge

09/22/17, 05:41 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing

Land O'Lakes Prize draws international competitors to make drones work better for farmers

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