“The world is asking farmers to fight climate change by reducing tillage and planting cover crops,” says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal ... horizontal plane. Vertical tillage leaves a rougher ...
Vertical farming could be the Segway of agriculture, falling way short of the hype. Some of the obstacles are obvious – energy use being top of the list. While LED cost and efficiency triggered ...
Not long ago, vertical farming seemed unstoppable. Big tech was going to supercharge agriculture, one of the oldest industries in the world, and the revolution would start with salad leaves.
Strawberries are the gateway fruit for many aspiring gardeners. They're sweet, versatile, and full of nostalgia. But the ...
And plant health improves too. In a vertical farm, every detail of the growing conditions can be controlled. This is important for high yield, good quality and efficient use of resources such as ...
An agricultural technology startup that grew lettuce and other greens inside a Baltimore County facility has shuttered, ...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The sun has set on a vertical farm in Bethlehem. Signs posted Wednesday at the entrance of Bowery Farms at ...
Here are some Benzinga-approved brokers to choose from. Investing in the vertical farming market is generally a good idea, but that doesn’t mean you should invest in the first company you find.
In a groundbreaking development for sustainable agriculture, the world's first large-scale indoor vertical strawberry farm has opened its doors in Richmond, Virginia. This innovative facility ...
Chris and Donna Graves grow salad leaves, herbs and edible flowers ... to try to set up a Welsh Centre of Excellence for vertical farming, which means growing crops indoors in a controlled ...
For more than half a century, American farmers have had a clear mandate: Grow more. In the 1970s, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz encapsulated the mission by urging them to plant “from fencerow to ...
The New York City-based Bowery Farming opened its vertical farm at 1025 Feather Way in Bethlehem in 2022. It's inside Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII, off Route 78. The 150,000 square-foot facility ...