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Can Vertical Farming Keep This Company Around for Another 165 Years?

Posted on November 15, 2017 by ThinkVertical

How vertical farming will change the face of agriculture as we know it, and why agriculture companies should invest now.

SV Agri – Consolidating India’s Potato Supply Chain

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Diti

Indian agriculture industry is segmented, scattered and primitive. SV Agri is a promising new start-up that is building to streamline the potato supply chain in India. But how should they incorporate climate change in the services that they offer?

From “Visibility” to Prosperity

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Justin Warner

Fixing the broken promise of the digitally-connected farmer in Sub-Saharan Africa.

CAN VERTICAL FARMING REDUCE AGRICULTURE’S IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE?

Posted on November 14, 2017 by ClareSimonis

Can Plenty, Inc. scale the vertical farming model and combat agriculture's impact on climate change?

Is ADM Ready to Feed a Warmer World?

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Oliver Weisser

If ADM wants to retain its position as a leader in agribusiness it will need to face climate change head-on. Climate change will exert unprecedented stress on its highly complex supply chain and the time to act is now.

Gotham Greens: Transforming the Produce Supply Chain

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Ryu

Founded in 2009, Gotham Greens is the largest urban agriculture company in the world. Can Gotham continue to refine and grow its hyper-local, hydroponic farming model and become the new agricultural mainstream in the US?

Ready…Aim…SPRAY!!!: How Blue River Technology is turning Free Spraying Techniques into Agricultural Surgery

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Steve Osipow

In the search for an answer to the question of how we will feed a growing population, Blue River Technology has created a robot that kills plants and weeds so that others may flourish while protecting the planet in the process.

Feeding 10 Billion People: How John Deere is Farming Data to Help Mankind Farm for Food

Posted on November 18, 2016 by PHT

Driving through Iowa on my way to the Harvester Plant at John Deere was my daily ritual for majority of the summer of 2011. For roughly an hour, corn fields would arise left and right. Multiple “Hulks”, the largest Harvester […]

iSow and iReap – the automation and digitization of farming

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Wincent

The times they are a-changin’ In Interstellar, a futuristic movie, Cooper the farmer tends to driverless automated farming machines that sow, fertilize and harvest crop – all guided by GPS, sensors and drones. Take a look at videos of John […]

Prepare for Takeoff: Digital Farming with Drones

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Alan Du

There has been much buzz around innovations in the food industry lately: from lazy people getting their meals delivered weekly by mail to weirdos chugging white goo meant to replace actual meals and eating energy bars made with bugs. While […]

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