The industry was a darling of the venture capital world 10 years ago. With many farms out of business, the remaining companies have scaled back.

Leafy greens budding inside a high-tech container farm could soon impact South Carolina’s agriculture industry, and it’s all ...

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

The word “farm” might conjure up images of vast swaths of land covered by endless rows of crops. A vertical farm might conjure up images of scientists inside laboratories wearing starch-white lab ...

The biggest challenge faced by the vertical farming industry is, without doubt, running costs. And it’s this that has led many, including Agricool and Glowfarms, to shutter. “One of the most commonly ...

A brief history of vertical farming – whereby crops are grown in stacked layers using artificial light, hydroponics or aeroponics – tells a classic tale of boom and bust. Before the hype, very little ...

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, ...