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Why Vertical Farms are Producing More Nutritious Crops

Agritecture Blog

Vertical farming has taken cities by storm, enabling urbanites to grow produce within their own homes and entrepreneurs to meet the growing demand for fresher and higher quantities of locally-grown produce. But, how is this soilless farming technique impacting human health?

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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs. The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm. director of the Agriculture Science program.

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5 Automation Companies to Look Out For

Agritecture Blog

As there are numerous suppliers around the world that specialize in automation for indoor farms, this list is not exhaustive but rather meant to illustrate the variety of ways in which suppliers are creatively meeting the needs of their customers. Automation is one way to cut costs and increase efficiency in a vertical farm.

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Microgreens: Tiny Crops, Big Profits – A Nutritional Powerhouse for Farmers and Winter Menus

ATTRA

Growing Microgreens Now that we’ve covered the differences between microgreens and sprouts, let’s explore how microgreens can be a lucrative addition to your farm income and the innovative methods for producing them. This high margin makes microgreens a lucrative crop, especially when grown efficiently.

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Challenges and Innovations Driving the CEA Sector in GCC and MENA

Agritecture Blog

According to CEA operators, some challenges faced by the sector are: Credit: Frontiers in Plant Science The hype surrounding the industry inflates the successes and can gloss over the serious issues that need to be addressed. provides data-driven farm management services to new and existing CEA farmers. Greener Crop Inc.

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Investors Rewind 10 Years of AgTech: Supervillains, Heroes and Unexpected Truths

World Agri-Tech

If you can’t afford to exit, everyone loses – the founders, the investors, and the incredible science and engineering under development. A great example is Oerth Bio’s work to develop PROTACs that will help crops manage through environmental stressors without losing yield. The heroes are CSOs and CTOs.

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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.