Policy is critical to help farmers at a time of crisis, a fact reflected in a strong bipartisan 2018 farm bill that improved the safety net for dairy producers and created new mental health assistance programs for farmers.
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High above the streets of New York, more than 36 tonnes of organic vegetables are grown every year. And the farms that produce them aren’t just feeding residents – they’re helping to stop sewage polluting the city’s rivers too.
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Jeffrey Landau, director of business development at Agritecture Consulting estimates the global value of the vertical farming market will rise to about $6.4bn by 2023, from $403m in 2013, with almost half that attributed to growth in the US.
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Federal, State, and City Officials Join Project Renewal to Break Ground on Bronx Supportive and Affordable Housing Development Featuring Rooftop Fish and Produce Garden and Living Green Façade
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AgTech entrepreneurs are full of energy and enthusiasm, however, many struggle to attract meaningful capital to their companies.
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Vertical Harvest is a company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that cranks out roughly 100,000 pounds of produce each year. Many of its employees have developmental disabilities.
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Written By Montel When you purchase new for your indoor farming operation, you’re investing in more than just the shelves and installation; you’re investing in a partnership. Montel is there for you, from your first inquiry into mobile racking to the last day of your installation (and beyond).
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A Utah family of Korean immigrants is hoping to tap into the vertical farming market.
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Jake Counne, the founder of Backyard Fresh Farms, believes his hydroponic farm has the technology to succeed where others have failed to make large-scale indoor vertical farming a profitable business.
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Greenhouse gases from food production create a vicious cycle: As Earth gets hotter, farming gets more difficult in many places, which forces farmers to clear more land to grow food.
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Researchers from Tsinghua University and Brown University have discovered a simple way to give a major boost to turbulent heat exchange.
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Historically black land-grant colleges and universities were created to be centers of food and agriculture research, but in reality many of their students live in food deserts with little access to grocery stores or restaurants.
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As days of extreme heat get more common, there are a few simple solutions that cities around the world are implementing to keep people a little more comfortable.
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Three French horticultural partners are trying to use the sun to its foremost by installing ASCA photovoltaic films at a commercial greenhouse.
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Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance announces City of East Point has been selected to pilot new City Agriculture Plan in partnership with the Atlanta Regional Commission.
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Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled its vision for the first vertical forests in Africa, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
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Aquaponics systems are sustainable and environment-friendly, as there are no toxic wastes and run-offs from chemicals.
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U.S. fast food customers’ growing expectations for healthier, ethical and more environmentally sustainable options directly correspond with the values and produce that the Vertical Farming industry provides.
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A new study from the World Bank and UN finds we’ll need ways to boost yields faster than ever before to prevent agricultural emissions from soaring.
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America’s Farmers, Reeling From Floods, Face a New Problem: No Water. The breach of an irrigation canal left more than 100,000 acres of farmland in Nebraska and Wyoming without water at a critical point in the growing cycle.
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Agribusinesses need to get smarter in order to utilize their same plots of land in ways that deliver greater, more reliable yields.
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In this exclusive interview, Agritecture spoke with Kevin Krueger, the Procurement and Sustainability Manager at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and we learned about the hospital’s urban agriculture initiatives.
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The 2019 Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” is predicted to be the second-largest on record.
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Pink Farms secures early funding to bring vertical farming to Brazil
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Some rubber dandelions grow rapidly in hydroponics with rubber-producing roots becoming large enough for rubber extraction in a fraction of the time required in fields.
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Increasing funding is pouring into vertical farming startups across the world
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Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human pickers.
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Issues like food miles, water waste, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides continually plague the modern agricultural industry as farms attempt to meet the rising demand of more and more mouths to feed.
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