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

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 ...

A Malaysian agricultural technology firm, Agroz, has partnered with China’s UBTECH Robotics to debut ...

Building that will house the Crop One vertical farm in the Humboldt Industrial Park in Hazle Township. HAZLE TWP. — Gov. Tom Wolf Thursday, in conjunction with CAN DO, announced that Crop One, an ...

Latest figures from the National Centre for Statistics and Information show that Oman achieved 65.8% self-sufficiency in food ...

Vertical farms promise to produce climate-resilient crops devoid of pesticides and fertilizers while reducing reliance on natural resources in contrast to traditional agriculture. Yet with the more ...

Aidan Connolly is the President of AgriTech Capital, a food/farm futurologist, and has a new book out soon, The Future of Agriculture. Continued droughts and climate change have elevated consumer and ...

While so-called urban agriculture has deep historical roots, as I described in a blog on this topic in October 2017, efforts to raise crops without full access to sunlight in a controlled environment, ...

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 ...

A big bowl of leafy greens is not what pops to mind when you think about farming in Kuwait. In a region facing extreme water scarcity, Kuwait produces only 1% of its crops using traditional ...

A LOT OF THINGS have been made in South Kearny, New Jersey, over the past 125 years. At the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, along the Hacken­sack River, workers cranked out 440-foot Liberty ...

Food is the very nourishment of life, but it’s also becoming increasingly challenging to grow at scale. A combination of explosive and unsustainable population growth, human-made climate change and ...