Since the arrival of the plow thousands of years ago, technology has made farming easier. Now, farmers large and small have access to advanced robots, automated facilities, self-driving tractors, and ...

Indoor vertical farming company Square Roots is rapidly scaling up its modular, smart-farms to address demand for locally-grown food. With the ongoing global climate threat and challenging economic ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. This Google Ventures-backed indoor farming ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Inside a nondescript computer lab at the University at Buffalo, a new tech-savvy style of indoor farming is blossoming. Lettuce and basil are growing inside a phonebooth-sized ...

COMPTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plenty today announced the opening of the Plenty Compton Farm – the world’s most technologically advanced indoor vertical farm, designed to grow up to 4.5 million ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plenty Unlimited Inc. today announced it has secured up to 120 acres of land near Richmond, Virginia, to build the largest, most advanced indoor vertical ...

The sea of greenhouses sat in manicured rows in Half Moon Bay's Rocket Farms, as if someone took a model and reproduced dozens of exact versions of the same glass building. But Rocket Farms president ...

Vertical farms promised to reduce the distance traveled and environmental impact of food to get from farm to plate – and in doing so offer consumers fresher, more nutritious options and retailers ...

Aidan Connolly is the President of AgriTech Capital, a food/farm futurologist, and has a new book out soon, The Future of Agriculture. Continued droughts and climate change have elevated consumer and ...

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