COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Corrections, joined by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture and South Carolina-based AmplifiedAg, Inc., has received legislative approval to ...
Imagine walking through your local grocery store where fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs grow right before your eyes in towering glass structures. This isn’t science fiction – it’s vertical farming, ...
The Plenty Richmond Farm is designed to produce more than 4 million pounds of strawberries annually in a space smaller than a single acre. This impressive yield is achieved through cutting-edge ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Phil Lempert covers breaking news and trends in food and retail. Irving Fain is an indoor vertical farming pioneer who says, after ...
The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how ...
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I answer the question is vertical farming is the future of food? Specifically, the video looks at the problem with vertical farming, the ...
On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...
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 ...
Vertical farming companies must prioritize long-term planning, efficient unit economics and operational consistency to succeed as the industry faces challenges in capital allocation and a likely wave ...
The UK Space Agency has awarded Vertical Future £1.5mn to build an autonomous farm in orbit. The high-tech veggie garden will be installed on the world’s first commercial space station. Currently ...
Vertical farming can do more than lettuce. A research team has investigated the cultivation of six food groups in vertical farming: Crops, algae, mushrooms, insects, fish and cultivated meat. In this ...
A rising global population means that maintaining viable agricultural space is one of the most pressing farming issues of 2023 and beyond. Vertical farming is growing crops indoors in stacked layers, ...