Plenty Unlimited has just broken ground on a $300 million campus in Chesterfield County, Virginia, which is expected to become the world’s largest indoor vertical farming facility.
Produce-grower Plenty has opened what it is calling the world’s most technologically advanced indoor vertical farm, designed to grow up to 4.5 million pounds of leafy greens annually in California.
Auburn University College of Agriculture is using shipping containers as self-contained “vertical” farms to grow produce to serve to students fresh produce.
Freight Farms partnered with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to explore the integration of CRISPR tomato seed genetics in a climate-controlled vertical farm setting.
Many colleges are getting access to advanced hydroponic vertical farming technology, thanks to a partnership between Freight Farms and Sodexo.
80 Acres is breaking ground on what is expected to be more than 150,000 square feet of fully-automated indoor farming in Ohio.
Indoor farming is a component of an agricultural system that’s becoming more innovative and more technology-focused every day.
Is traditional “dirt” farming a relic? Hardly, says Ferrum College professor Tim Durham. Vertical farming has been oversold, expert level.