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 ...

Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork.In the US, lettuce ...

It’s peak strawberry season in Massachusetts. But after mid-July, you won’t be able to find any fresh, locally-grown ones in the Bay State. Unless you’re buying berries that were vertically farmed.

Vertical farms produce more food with fewer resources and less waste by delivering dense crop yields from stacked growing layers in controlled indoor environments. When most of us think about farming, ...

The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how ...

The collaboration aims to put a humanoid robot to work on the farm. The star of this new program is UBTECH’s industrial ...

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 ...

Steve Adubato and One-on-One Correspondent Mary Gamba talk with Brendan Somerville, Co-Founder & COO of Oishii, about his journey as an agriculture entrepreneur and his passion for vertical farming.

Nearly half of the world's land (44%) is used for agriculture, according to data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, with one-third of that going to croplands and two-thirds to grazing land ...

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 ...