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 […]
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 […]
$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 […]
Aerofarms is set to open its Virginia facility. On the 28th of July, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced in a press release that AeroFarms, a Certified B Corporation and world leader in indoor vertical farming, will create sixty-six additional new jobs and increase production of freshly-grown leafy greens as part of a major operational expansion of […]
For the past couple of months, the Jamaican government has sought to make the country more food secure by creating opportunities for self-sufficiency. The Campaign “Grow Smart, East Smart” is an illustration of the country’s willingness to expand the implementation of agricultural practices in urban areas, including backyard gardening and vertical farming. “We recently launched […]
