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Top 5 - yesterday
- How growers are future-proofing with flexibility and innovation
- Philippines: Pampanga farmers urged to switch to in demand, high-value crops
- Research as a Service at a fraction of the cost revealed at Indoor Ag-Con 2023
- Next-gen vertical farming, sensors and energy generation showcased to US Midwest State Legislators
- Floating farms are transforming life on India’s waterways
Top 5 - last week
Top 5 - last month
- Red dwarf tomatoes are thriving in space
- Italy: "Same productivity, but without the energy costs from artificial lighting"
- What happened with vertical farming and how can we fix it?
- Step aside, leafy greens – it’s high-value crops only in these space-bound pods
- How to buy quality grow lights and get the amount of light needed
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Optimizing indoor farming with sensors
Urban Crop Solutions is an end-to-end indoor farming solutions provider, supporting clients with contract research trials, and the engineering and construction of indoor farms. Their indoor farming solutions use multiple sensors produced by ifm to monitor and control the technical parameters required to…
Vertical farming in Saudi Arabia: Benefits, challenges, and opportunities
"We are confident that the MENA region, including Saudi Arabia, is one of the premier places in the world for the vertical farming business today", says Max Chizhov, co-founder of iFarm, which recently relocated its headquarters to the Middle East and North Africa and is currently installing new customer…
Romania: "If things go well, we foresee an expansion beyond European borders"
"We are proud that we are one of the market leaders in Romania for microgreens and culinary decoration, supplying year-round. Delivery conditions and product quality is extremely important. That's why we are developing our coverage area nationwide through Green Hubs. Our proprietary vertical farm…
A vertical farm as a big data source
"Growing is a top sport. Raising the bar, a little higher every time. That is only possible with the right information about growing conditions, performance, yield, and much more. Today’s information, but also information gathered in the past. In other words, data. More and more possibilities are…
Vertical farming is proving itself technically, but the economics need to catch up
"Over the last five years, the operations of vertical farms have matured, and the technology has advanced to a point where the unit economics begin to make sense. AmplifiedAg aims to support the industry's evolution through this as a facilitator of infrastructure," says Don Taylor, CEO of AmplifiedAg.…
Slovakia: Indoor farming needs complex crops to be profitable and beat high energy crops
“Since we launched our business, we noticed that the biggest challenge faced by players is paying energy bills. We specifically constructed our system with this in mind,” says Viktor Kulcsár, COO at Veles Farming. Veles Farming is a Slovakian vertical farming company that was founded in mid-2021 with a…
