Vertical farming is highly adaptable to our future increased use of robotics, AI, data sensing, and data processing. Much of this work is repetitive and backbreaking, so it makes sense to use machines ...

The precision-bred plants have miniaturised leaves and stems that fit in vertical farming systems, yet can produce four-times the fruit of conventional plants New variety can produce up to 400% more ...

Rolling bankruptcies in global vertical farming over the past five years have slowed the industry’s momentum but not its ...

The Eating the Earth column got its name because agriculture has devoured nearly two-fifths of our planet’s land. It also uses nearly three-fourths of our fresh water, generates one-fourth of our ...

A rising global population means that maintaining viable agricultural space is one of the most pressing farming issues of 2023 and beyond. Vertical farming is growing crops indoors in stacked layers, ...

Plant factories are failing, with multiple companies closing or going bankrupt in recent months. This includes the largest vertical farm on the planet, in Compton, Los Angeles. Despite raising over ...

Located amid the often chilly Canadian prairie, Downtown Calgary isn’t typically seen as a center of agriculture. Travel, though, to the Calgary Tower Centre, a landmark building in Alberta’s largest ...

Wander through the labyrinthine tunnels twenty feet beneath downtown Houston, and the past practically oozes from the walls. Office workers walk over pink-and-green speckled tiles. Steve Winwood’s ...