High energy demands and social acceptance remain key barriers to scaling. Scientists reveal futuristic farming technique that ...

Learn how ZERO is digitizing the agricultural edge to make vertical farming more profitable, sustainable and scalable. Vertical farms produce more food with fewer resources and less waste by ...

A research team led by Prof. Xu Cao from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of ...

While most vertical farms are made up of stacked horizontal systems, Plenty Richmond Farm is growing the produce on movable, vertical towers nearly two stories high. Not only does it look ...

To grow 1kg lettuce in an open field uses around 250L water, efficient greenhouses use around 25L, and IGS’s vertical farming technology uses just 2.5L. As to land use, the company’s 1m-high vertical ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Vertical farming can substantially increase protein yields per area—up to 300-fold for crops and over 6,000-fold for mushrooms and insects—while reducing ...

Vertical farming has come under fire in the past, with opponents blasting its high energy usage and cost. So, will new findings to mitigate these drawbacks, silence the critics? The modern concept of ...

Vertical farming facilities usually are not more than two or three stories high, but the rapidly growing indoor farming industry is aiming for the stratosphere in terms of revenue. According to a ...

The UK Space Agency has awarded Vertical Future £1.5mn to build an autonomous farm in orbit. The high-tech veggie garden will be installed on the world’s first commercial space station.

Vertical farming may be the next big thing as the nascent industry continues to gain traction in the Garden State with the latest roots being planted in Passaic. The city of Passaic is not what ...

Vertical farming is doing the impossible by filling tables with fresh fruits and vegetables that were grown mere miles away from consumers in places like Massachusetts, even when they’re out of ...

We’re driving away from all those things,” Henry Sztul, chief science officer at Bowery Farming, told NJ Advance Media. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, supporters of vertical farms have also ...