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Farm.One The NYC Farm for Chefs

12/08/17, 05:40 AM | Harvesting & Transport, Processing & Supply Chain | Hydroponics, Indoor Farming, vertical farming

The new 1,200 square-foot farm uses hydroponics (growing plants in a water-based nutrient solution, instead of soil) and efficient new LED lights to grow rare produce in a controlled environment, year-round.

This precision farm machine can shape the future of India's agriculture

12/06/17, 05:50 AM | Planning & Preparation, Harvesting & Transport | AgTech, Harvesting, Precision Farming

Pranbihanga Borpuzari for ET Online: A robotic arm uses these coordinates to pick the cotton and the arm, then uses a vacuum for precision picking of cotton and avoids picking any other contaminant.

How Cannabis Farmers Helped Create the Indoor Farming Industry

12/04/17, 05:58 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Harvesting & Transport | AgTech, Cannabis, vertical farming

Gabe Blanchet, Co-Founder, CEO of Grove via The Spoon: While today's indoor farming owes a whole lot to the cannabis, NASA and greenhouse research, my focus in this piece is on the formative impact pot growers had on this industry.

Farmer's Business Network, Inc. Announces $110 Million Series D Funding

12/01/17, 05:50 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Big Data, Investing

Funding Enables Rapidly Growing Farmer Network to Accelerate the Independent Digital Farm Economy

Combining solar panels and agriculture makes land more productive

11/29/17, 05:43 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | solar, Technology Discussions

Karen Graham for Digital Journal: An agrophotovoltaics (APV) pilot project conducted at Lake Constance has proven that farming and the use of solar panels can be compatible.

This 'Plantscaper' Could Provide 500 Metric Tons of Organic Food

11/27/17, 05:33 AM | Harvesting & Transport, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, Indoor Farming, vertical farming

Shelby Rogers for Interesting Engineering: Plantagon could help solve food shortages around the world and save 1,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from traditional farming methods.

The Hydroponic, Robotic Future of Farming in Greenhouses

11/22/17, 05:45 AM | Harvesting & Transport, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, robotics

Matt Simon for Wired: The company is developing machine learning algorithms that will automatically detect diseased plants and kick them out of the system before the sickness spreads. Underdeveloped plants would also get the boot.

With Vertical Farms, Food Banks are Growing their Own Produce to Fight Hunger

11/20/17, 05:30 AM | Harvesting & Transport, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, Containers, vertical farming

Jody Helmer for Civil Eats: Vertical farms allow food banks to grow their own produce with high-tech systems in an effort to fight food insecurity year-round.

Sensors applied to plant leaves warn of water shortage

11/17/17, 05:58 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, Sensors

Anne Trafton for MIT News Office: MIT engineers have created sensors that can be printed onto plant leaves and reveal when the plants are experiencing a water shortage

Giving agriculture a global do-over could feed nearly a billion more people

11/15/17, 05:47 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Research and Reports

Diana Gitig for Ars Technica: "We find that the current distribution of crops around the world neither attains maximum production nor minimum water use."

Urban farming containers to play a role in hyper-local food sourcing

11/13/17, 05:50 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Containers, vertical farming

Torstar News Service: Forty-foot containers, equipped with infrared lights and vertical hydroponics systems, can produce up to 150 pounds of kale a week.

Organic Farmers Lose Battle Over Soilless Hydroponic Growing

11/10/17, 05:38 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain

Emily Monaco for Organic Authority: The National Organic Standards Board voted last Wednesday to reject proposals prohibiting hydroponic and aquaponic production methods from being certified USDA organic.

Princeton's Vertical Farming Project harvests knowledge for a budding industry

11/08/17, 05:42 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Hydroponics, Indoor Farming, Research and Reports, Training and Education, vertical farming

Morgan Kelly, Princeton Environmental Institute: Princeton University's Vertical Farming Project began at a conference in 2016 when the topic turned to increasing the crop yield of hydroponic systems

Energy-efficient vertical farm to fight food poverty

11/06/17, 05:35 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Technology Discussions, vertical farming

David Szondy for New Atlas: "Obviously the footprint needs to be small, so you have to go vertical. And you'll need to use artificial lighting. These are the problems we decided to solve for."

Meet the "connected cow"

11/03/17, 05:43 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Sensors, Smart Farm

Nic Fildes for Financial Times: Farmers are placing sensors on various parts of cows' bodies - including the tail, neck, hooves and stomach - to help increase the productivity of their herds.

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