Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. This complexity makes defining criteria for agroecologically appropriate technologies challenging.

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Agritecture Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

However, in the face of these limitations, Singapore has and will embrace more urban and vertical farming. By maximizing its limited land resources and leveraging cutting-edge technology, Singapore is harnessing the potential of controlled environment agriculture to cultivate a sustainable and self-sufficient future.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A worker replants lettuce in a vertical farm. Discussions around labor development, technology innovation, and industry movement appear to be the most engaging. Is Cold Plasma the Next Big Technology Breakthrough in Indoor Ag? Two workers inspect plants in a vertical farm. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

LED lighting is an important aspect of indoor farming operations, but it consumes energy, contributing to a farm’s overall costs. The 2021 Global CEA Census Report revealed that at least 38% of greenhouses and vertical farms don't track their energy use. CubicFarms CubicFarms growing technology with LED lighting.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

With the cost of labor increasing dramatically in recent years, combined with meaningful improvements in technology development, cost-benefit analyses are increasingly tilting in the favor of automation. Just five years ago, in 2018, let’s say the crop harvesting machine cost $1,000,000 for a grower to purchase. Credit: Free Think.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Third-party validation of the system or underlying technology is also factored in. Greener Crop , INNO-3B , LettUs Grow , Montel , New Growing System , Priva , Urban Crop Solutions , Tower Farms , FarmRaise , Harvest Returns , Mainvest , and Perl Street. iFarm iFarm creates solutions for city farming. Credit: iFarm.

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Agritecture Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

While standard energy sources typically come at a lower cost, the reliability of the cost of renewable energy is helpful (and necessary) for farms to plan and make strategic decisions to balance their operational costs in the long term. YASAI is a vertical farm in Zürich, Switzerland that runs on 100% renewable energy.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

From there, I spent probably a year researching various technologies and strategies for indoor ag, and I landed on the concept of using shipping containers. AmplifiedAg CEO Don Taylor in an indoor farm growing butter lettuce. We founded AmplifiedAg in 2016 and spent the first couple years building technology.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

s groundbreaking lightning-based fertiliser technology that posesses immense potential to support farmers, climate and soil health The system works by stimulating lightning's ability to capture nitrogen in the form of nitrates when it strikes water. The Agri-Tech Centres are working with innovative start-up Debye Ltd.'s

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Written by: Sarah Jordan , Isabelle Dom , and Ricky Stephens December 12, 2022 If you pay attention to what’s happening in the indoor farming sector, you may have seen the USDA’s recent investments in urban and controlled environment agriculture through its new CEA Center of Excellence. by managing those inputs to speed up plant growth.”

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

Container farms, as the name suggests, are farms that are housed within repurposed metal shipping containers. These containers are retrofitted with equipment and technology to create a controlled environment for plants to grow. A worker tends to plants in a container farm at Vertical Roots farm.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Written by: Sarah Jordan and Justin Hyunjae Chung December 14, 2022 In vertical farming, efficiency is key for those looking to increase their profit margins. Automation is one way to cut costs and increase efficiency in a vertical farm. We have a few contenders: TTA TTA’s Flexplanter machine in use at an InFarm facility.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2022

For many, the answer is an increased focus on emerging agricultural technologies, such as controlled-environment agriculture. As agriculture moves towards automation, what technologies and best practices will lead the way? He also mentioned vertical farming as a trend to watch in ag tech.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. One of Kupu’s two employees, she started orchard farming at 16.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Microgreens are young vegetables harvested just after the cotyledon leaves have developed, typically seven and 21 days. In contrast, sprouts are germinated seeds harvested much earlier, usually within two to seven days. This difference in harvesting time is just the beginning of what distinguishes these two nutritious greens.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Various technologies and methodologies have begun to crop up over the last decade, presenting themselves as “silver bullets” to this food system problem. Vertical farms too could cost upwards of $350 per square foot, and require even more energy. However, they have very significant capital costs.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Credit: Farm One. “I I thought, wouldn’t it be great to use this new technology of vertical farming to bring these kinds of interesting products to the market and grow them locally? Vertical farming allows you to grow right next to where people consume the product, and allows you to grow very fresh crops year round.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2021, Djavid wrote the original article, “How to Caluclate Your Farm’s Carbon Footprint.” Since then, technology in the field continues to advance and reimagine our food systems. Editor’s Note: This blog post is a continuation of a previous article authored by Djavid , our Director of Consulting here at Agritecture.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Credit: Vertical Farming Planet. For millions of Africans, decades of reliance on traditional farming techniques and poor policymaking have created vulnerabilities that are only worsened by the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. One of Africa's most prominent and perhaps persistent challenges is food security.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Students harvesting greens with Teens for Food Justice. Editor’s Note: Increasingly around the USA, middle and high schools are creating opportunities for their students to learn about hydroponic farming. These farms offer food security to students but also offer insights into business. Credit: Jessica DiMento.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. Learn more about alternative protein production & contact David Ceaser to help get started on your own farming dreams. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Alternative Proteins Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. Including both greenhouses and indoor vertical farms, these types of operations can maximize yield using drastically less water, less land, and no pesticides, all while creating good-paying, year-round farming jobs.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

The interdisciplinary team consists of ten Master’s students from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) - 5 architects, 1 strategic designer, 2 water management experts, 1 environmental engineer, and 1 electrical engineer - coming together from 9 countries. Winners of the third Urban Greenhouse Challenge, LettUs Design.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

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.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4 The greenhouses use hydroponic technology—using water and no soil to cultivate plants—and the recycling of water throughout its facilities, including capturing rainwater and snow melt. He describes it as “indoor vertical farming.” You have this balance of grains to special vegetables.

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