What is Vertical Farming?
In Singapore, a country with a population of more than 5.5 million on the main island that is just 26 miles wide and 14 miles long, there is a four-story rotating greenhouse, it produces 1 ton of greens every day. Normally, Singapore imports 93% of its produce.
How Field-Centric Weather Data Improves Crop Staging Accuracy
Today, companies like Farmers Edge are installing weather stations in their customers fields to acquire accurate, site-specific data. And having a dense network of weather stations enables detailed analyses of regional trends.
Telit and Husqvarna Collaborate on Robots for Urban Park Sustainability Program
Telit's end-to-end IoT solutions are enabling real-time sensor data from robotic lawnmowers that offers valuable insight into green-space environmental conditions and park maintenance
2017 Commercial UAV Expo Keynotes Focus on Drone Data Integration & Workflow
Speakers to Offer Collective Roadmap for Asset Owners/Large Enterprises
World's First Solar Powered Indoor Vertical Farm Comes To Philadelphia
Steve Hanley for CleanTechnica: It plans to grow the equivalent of 660 outdoor acres worth of crops in less than 100,000 sq feet. "The panels are already installed and turned on, now were building out the farm.
Mouser Electronics Publishes E-books on Revolutionary Technology as Part of Popular Shaping Smarter Cities Series
Mouser Electronics has published a series of compelling e-books that provide in-depth views of leading-edge technology featured in the Shaping Smarter Cities series, part of Mousers award-winning Empowering Innovation Together program.
Free, On-site Image Stitching for AgVault Users
Private beta will showcase cost-effective in-field mosaic insights
This Drone Business Is a Flying Success. Find out Why.
Drones can be used in many different ways, but not all of them lead to a high ROI. Heres the story of Caribe Drones, a company which discovered the full potential of drones by using Agremo to help farmers gain more insights into their plants and crops.
Plastomics is growing the next generation of crops with agtech
Christine McGuigan for Silicon Prairie News: Plastomics chloroplast engineering is a platform that can efficiently introduce multiple traits into the chloroplast and enable simple, more predictable breeding of traits.
Is Ag Tech Adoption an Issue?
Lets not forget that farmers themselves are very innovative and willing to try new things - still, they proceed with caution. So, technology adoption will most likely continue to be a pain point in agriculture, but having awareness of these principles may help developers smooth the path moving forward.
The Seam launches peanut platform with real-time, actionable insights for farmers
Instant grading and inspection information is now available to peanut farmers through automated text messaging and includes foreign materials, grade, moisture levels and other attributes.
Vertical Farming Looks to Go Mainstream
Richard Jones for Greenhouse Grower: The summit was a mix of education, advocacy, and policy discussion about urban agriculture - vertical farming in particular - targeted at finding ways to broaden its adoption in cities around the country and around the world.
Proposals welcome for SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing
Abstracts sought for presentations in sensors, infrared technology, laser systems, spectral imaging, radar, LiDAR, and photonics research
Indigo Harvests $156M to Boost Agtech R&D, Harness Crop Microbes
Frank Vinluan for Xconomy: Indigos work focuses on beneficial microbes-the bacteria, viruses, and fungi that naturally coexist with plants. Some of these microbes work with plants, helping them overcome stresses that they face over a growing season.
Go Green with Custom Water Management Applications
All the Things You Never Knew You Needed for Effective Agricultural Water Management
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Lighting - Featured Product
XLamp® Horizon LEDs feature two horticulture beam shapes
Improve lighting uniformity in horticulture applications with Horizon70 and Horizon90 beam shapes. Allows for 40% lower luminaire mounting height to increase plant density in vertical farms. Available on 5 LED colors: White, Photophyll™ Select, Royal Blue, Photo Red and Far Red.
