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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.

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.

Startup utilizing artificial intelligence and computer vision for farming receives $15M in funding

07/28/17, 06:18 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators, Big Data, Investing
James Carroll for Vision Systems Design: Prospera explains that its digital farming system aims to collect, digitize, and analyze vast amounts of farm data and optimize all aspects of production, from agronomy to labor management.

Three Questions For An AgTech Investor

07/26/17, 06:07 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators, Investing
Alex Knapp for Forbes: But what attracts investors to this sector? And what should AgTech startups know about talking to potential investors?

Huge Variation Found in Air Bulk Metering Systems

07/25/17, 08:23 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | fertilizing, planting, seeds
The Secret is Out-Average Variation of 20% in Product Distribution.

Bullish on ag tech, Alexandria creating R&D 'mega campus' in RTP

07/18/17, 11:43 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators, Investing
Barry Teater, NCBiotech Writer: "There is no place for high-quality ag tech companies to move into plug-and-play, turnkey R&D facilities coupled with greenhouses,"

Ivy Tech Precision Ag Program prepares students with newest technologies in agriculture

07/17/17, 05:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Precision Farming | AgTech, Training and Education
Greensburg Daily News: The need for new agriculture training is great. Indiana is seeing an increase in the average age of its farm workers from 49 in 1950 to now approaching the age of 60.

Sentera Grows High-Precision Line With Release of Quad Sensor

07/13/17, 09:01 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | drones, Precision Farming, Sensors
Sentera introduces the latest update to its high-precision sensor product line, the Quad Sensor. Featuring four fully customizable imagers, the multispectral Quad Sensor is a precision agriculture, data-collection powerhouse.

New IntelLiDrives XYZ Robot helps researchers to study plant development

07/11/17, 08:34 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Monitoring, Sensors
XYZ Robot helps researchers develop hardier, weather-resistant crops

Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot

07/10/17, 05:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Precision Farming | robotics
Evan Ackerman for IEEE Spectrum: Tertill is a solar-powered, weed-destroying, fully autonomous and completely self-contained robot designed for your garden.

SLANTRANGE Announces Working with Bayer to Advance Research Programs with Aerial Remote Sensing

07/07/17, 06:03 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, drones
Bayer will be able to access SLANTRANGEs advanced data analytics to develop new high-throughput phenotyping techniques

Precision Farming Increases Crop Yields

07/06/17, 06:04 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Precision Farming
Geoffrey Ling, Blake Bextine for Scientific American: Combining sensors and imaging of every plant with real-time data analytics improves farm outputs and reduces waste

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