Tag: controlled environment agriculture

5 crucial agtech tools for sustainable and productive farming

September 22, 2023

As artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics continue to evolve, smart farms will become even smarter.

AeroFarms emerges from Ch. 11 with new CEO, focus on VA farm

September 18, 2023

The company has also hired food and ag vet Molly Montgomery as acting CEO as it focuses all efforts on its Danville, Virginia farm.

Brief: Container farming startup Freight Farms to go public for $147m via SPAC

September 8, 2023

The proposed SPAC merger with Agrinam Acquisition Corp. values indoor farming tech company Freight Farms at $147 million.

Data snapshot: Fish, flies and algae outshine crop CEA in the $600m+ of novel farming systems funding so far in 2023

September 6, 2023

The novel farming systems category has raised $826 million so far in 2023, according to preliminary data from AgFunder.

Equilibrium & Bosch Growers submit winning bids to acquire AppHarvest’s KY greenhouse facilities

September 5, 2023

Longtime AppHarvest backer Equilibrium submitted the lone bid for the former’s 60-acre greenhouse facilities.

Indoor ag has hit ‘a bump on the S curve,’ not the trough of disillusionment – EY agrifood leader

August 22, 2023

EY’s Rob Dongoski dives into the macro factors impacting controlled environment agriculture — and what startups should do.

Oishii’s newest executive says she’s ‘never been more confident about the future of vertical farming’

August 15, 2023

The vertical farming company’s newly appointed chief commercial officer Rita Hudetz says one of her goals is to make Oishii a household name.

Why AeroFarms backer Cibus just launched a ‘cost effective and scalable’ greenhouse strategy for Europe

July 31, 2023

Cibus Fund II has acquired greenhouse grower Duijvestijn Tomaten and launched a new platform for growing food indoors with renewable energy.

AppHarvest files Chapter 11 protection, plans to sell its Kentucky-based indoor farming facilities

July 24, 2023

AppHarvest says the filing, which comes on the heels of one from AeroFarms, will aid in a “financial and operational” transition.

Q&A: Local Bounti’s new CEO on greenhouses vs. vertical farms and where CEA’s next priorities lie

June 23, 2023

Former Amazon executive Anna Fabrega discusses her transition to indoor agriculture and what’s next for Local Bounti.

AppHarvest to reopen listeria-impacted CEA farm in “a few weeks” but could run out of cash “as soon as October”

May 18, 2023

AppHarvest says it needs to raise additional funds to continue operating and that it is pursuing “additional financing alternatives.”

Meet the Founder: CEA engineer & advisor Erika Summers on why (vertical) farming isn’t a ‘get-rich-quick’ industry

April 21, 2023

Erika Summers explains mechanical side of vertical farming and why you can’t build a vertical farm just anywhere, despite what the hype says.

Brief: Infarm closes Copenhagen operations amid ongoing ‘strategy shift’ & vertical farming consolidation

April 18, 2023

Copenhagen is one of several markets impacted economic headwinds and Infarm’s decision to focus on markets headed towards profitability.

Agri-genomics startup Singrow opens indoor R&D farm, plots expansion to Malaysia, Thailand

April 11, 2023

Singrow will expand availability of its genomics-based indoor farming system that produces climate-resilient produce to bolster food security.

🎥 Revol Greens CEO: ‘Customers don’t care what technology you have, they care if it’s a better product’

April 10, 2023

‘Jaundiced’ investors that jumped into indoor ag hoping to make a fast buck have got their fingers burned, says Revol Greens CEO Michael Wainscott. “Agriculture is slow, biology is slow, and capital has to reflect that.”

People Moves: Impossible Foods vet joins Nobell, cheers to Diageo’s first female CEO, FDA head to retire

April 7, 2023

Believer Meats has a new Burger, Freight Farms grows its indoor ag team.

Q&A: Fifth Season’s former VP on why it failed and how vertical farming must change

April 6, 2023

The now-defunct startup’s former VP Chris Cerveny says everything from timing to funding to how automation gets deployed can impact a farm’s lifespan.