Commercial horticultural supplier Hort Americas announced today a new division within the company to bring quality, technically advanced and cost-effective products to commercial greenhouse growers in Canada. Just like its U.S. counterpart, Hort Americas Canada will have a strong focus on providing the best-in-class products, educating growers and continuing to research advancements in controlled environment […]
30 innovative agritech and foodtech start-ups from around the world, working to address food security challenges, were named for the final stages of the Global FoodTech Challenge that has a pooled prize of USD 2 million. The 30 shortlisted start-ups have been selected from 667 submissions across 79 countries, representing a 52% increase in entries […]
AppHarvest, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPH, APPHW) announced it has completed the calibration of its “touchless growing system” for salad greens at its 15-acre Berea, Ky., indoor farm by having successfully grown more than 20 varieties of lettuce and is approximately 80% complete with planting of its 30-acre AppHarvest Somerset Farm, which has the capacity to grow about […]
The indoor farming and fresh food brand launches plant-based dip, dairy-free versions of fan-favorite flavors Green Goddess, Spinach Artichoke, Tzatziki and Green Harissa. A week after raising USD 310 million in a Series E, Gotham Greens launched a new plant-based dips in four plant-packed flavors: Green Goddess, Spinach Artichoke, Tzatziki and Green Harissa. Each dip […]
Bowery announces the launch of salad kits, expanding product offerings into the ready-to-eat category. With the introduction of three salad kit flavours featuring fork-able greens, bold flavour, and crunchy toppings from pepitas to parm crisps, Bowery is elevating the grab-and-go salad experience. Bowery continues to demonstrate product category leadership in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) with […]
As FarmTech Society prepares A first major POLICY event in Brussels together with Zenith Global (Vertical Farming World Congress), FTS needs ALL STAKEHOLDERS IN Controlled Environment Agriculture to collect feedback for a common voice in order to develop the smartest possible policy narrative (anticipating confirmed high-level regulators and policymakers from the US and the EU), […]
$300 million, 120-acre Virginia campus will feature what the company claims to be the world’s first farm to grow indoor, vertically farmed berries at scale, in partnership with Driscoll’s. In a span of a week Virginia has seen the grand openning of AeroFarms’ new facility in Pittsylvania County, the opening of an old data center […]
Why 2022 is strengthening the case for AgTech Far from being an isolated event, the pandemic has simply served as a taster to what has since prevailed, triggering a chain of events which has caused more damage on an already weakened global economy and further threatened a fragile food system. Can AgTech provide an all-encompassing […]
Square Roots announced today that it now sells its fresh, long-lasting produce in Meijer’s branded stores in four Midwestern states, meeting the increasing consumer demand for local food that is delicious, nutritious, and responsibly farmed. Delicious, high-quality greens will be sold at Meijer-branded stores in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The produce is grown and […]
Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary announced that the Bidden-Harris administration through the USA will invest up to USD 2.8 Billion in 70 selected projects under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity, with projects from the second funding pool to be announced later this year. These initial projects will expand markets […]
