Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vertical farms and greenhouses are seeing much more capital investment than they had in the past, and CEA businesses are improving their unit economics through new technologies which attract investment, as well. Many investments come from venture capitalists who want to treat vertical farming like a tech investment.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Most research on urban agriculture has focused on a single type of urban farming, often high-tech projects, such as aquaponic tanks, rooftop greenhouses or vertical farms. We looked instead at the life cycle emissions of more common low-tech urban agriculture – the kind found in urban backyards, vacant lots and urban farms.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Recent legislative efforts in the US are trying to halt these deals; Image sourced from WoodRuff Food processing and distribution is becoming increasingly concentrated too. School Districts are getting in on the game too, utilizing $400m from the USDA to prioritize local buying habits, and expand popular Farm-to-School programs.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 16, 2023

The important research being done at this facility will hopefully make saltwater farming a viable option for future generations. Heron Farms Heron Farms’s founder, Sam Norton, with vertically farmed sea beans. In Charleston, South Carolina, Heron Farms grows halophytes with seawater. Credit: Vie Magazine.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

In contrast, agtech has fewer corporate buyers, hard-to-reach distributed customers, all of them growing commodified food at low value per acre and hardly anything going public, and those that do, regretting it. The lesson for agtech is to target only the truly massive addressable markets to offset these downside issues.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We know it can be done—farms that have diversified (crops), soil has improved, less fossil fuel used, less fertilizer used. Beyond the economics, those growing, producing and distributing locally grown food believe in what they’re doing, Bruskewitz said. “At He describes it as “indoor vertical farming.”

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