Vertical farming has faced a years-long struggle to gain support and achieve growth. But things are looking up for this once ...
Some consider vertical farming to be the farming of the future. It’s exactly what it sounds like; instead of being grown in fields, plants are grown indoors in vertical stacks. If you’re the ...
Vertical farming supports sustainability and feeding a growing population, but needs careful deployment for optimal ROI, says ...
Former office buildings are thriving as indoor farms as demand for office space drops, reports Vittoria Traverso for BBC.
Plant factories are failing, with multiple companies closing or going bankrupt in recent months. This includes the largest vertical farm on the planet, in Compton, Los Angeles. Owned by San ...
It’s a system that takes time to implement and a lot of attention to detail, according to Missy Bauer, Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist. “A vertical tillage system involves ...
founder and CEO of the vertical farming company Bowery, explains how being an outsider to agriculture has helped him come up with new ideas. Dubai is now home to the largest vertical farm in the ...
“The world is asking farmers to fight climate change by reducing tillage and planting cover crops,” says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist. “Governments want you to adopt vertical ...
Vertical farming is pivotal to helping feed the world as arable land decreases. Companies like Local Bounti use hybrid farming technologies to grow food more sustainably. Investing in vertical ...
Other companies in the vertical farming sector have faced significant challenges, including Plenty, which saw its valuation plummet from $1.9 billion to just $15 million in a few years, while both ...
Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Italy have proposed to combine vertical farming with solar power generation from PV greenhouses in an effort to increase land utilization.