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Striking a Balance: Are You a Technology Company or a Farming Company?

Agritecture Blog

To develop a farm or to develop a technology, that is the question. As I pondered the topic for this round, I felt drawn to delve into a significant hurdle frequently encountered by vertical farming companies. “ Are you a technology company or a farming company? ”

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The Influx of CEA Investment: Where Has the Money Gone?

Agritecture Blog

A worker inspects plants in one of Plenty’s vertical farms. raised to date Vertical farms require significant capital to operate, especially when they’re just starting out. Technology providers : Companies that develop equipment and technology that they sell to farm operators. Credit: Why Farm It.

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Welcoming Superyachts to the Future of AgTech Vessels

Agritecture Blog

Today, we have farms beyond the imaginable : Rotterdam’s floating dairy farm that houses 40 cows, Peconic Escargot’s greenhouse that raises snails, GreenWave’s 3D ocean farm for regenerative aquaculture, and the first-ever underwater cultivation of terrestrial plants by Nemo’s Garden. Farming is one part of this equation.

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5 Critical Agriculture Topics to Incorporate Into Any Climate-Related Event

Agritecture Blog

Some of these solutions include aquaculture to help reduce the amount of wild-captured fish, as well as mushrooms , insects , and algae grown in controlled environments. Agrivoltaics Jack’s Solar Farm – Photo by Werner Slocum: NREL Agrivoltaics involves field farmers adding solar panels on top of their fields.

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The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Farms are Bridging Agriculture Systems

Agritecture Blog

The term is meant to capture the nuance between different agricultural methods that are often promoted as competing against each other, [such as vertical farms and greenhouses,] when in fact, they overlap, and various combinations of them can reap greater environmental, economic, and social benefits than any one solution alone.