Babylon Micro-Farms lands $8m Series A: ‘Bigger does not necessarily mean better in vertical farming’
The company’s freshly raised Series A funding will go towards expanding the reach of its remotely managed network of modular veritcal farms.
The company’s freshly raised Series A funding will go towards expanding the reach of its remotely managed network of modular veritcal farms.
New agritech innovations in vertical farming and indoor ag need to be integrated into existing agricultural operations, establishing a hybrid system.
Speakers at this year’s Indoor Ag-Con offered the indoor farming industry insights, predictions and some major reality checks about the future.
Indoor Ag-Con panelists discuss vertical farming failures and assemble a checklist of best practices to help the industry moving forward.
The partnership’s initial transaction will be for a multi-farm facility in Virginia where Plenty and Driscoll’s will grow strawberries.
Other recent distress signals suggest the big priority for vertical farming company Kalera in 2023 is about surviving rather than scaling.
As many in the vertical farming industry struggle, tech companies, growers and academics weigh in on what must happen next in order to progress.
The top 10 climate tech deals in agrifood in 2022 were almost exclusively upstream startups in vertical farming, alternative proteins and ag biotech.
The company will shift all production to its Compton, California facility, thought it will continue to have a retail presence in the Bay Area.
Stalling progress and slumping valuations might feel disappointing to many. Heck, these are challenging times. But this could be the best year yet to invest in agrifoodtech.
As demand for greater food security and traceability increases, so too will the size of the rounds for Novel Farming Systems in APAC.
Vertical farm failure, a SPAC from the father of agtech, GM controversy, indoor farmed wheat, and funding for one of regenerative agriculture’s leaders were the top 5 articles reported on by AFN’s team of reporters in 2022.
AFN’s most-read guest articles of the year debated the future of CEA, analyzed (a complete lack of) plant-based meat branding and more.
Pink Farms aims to provide some or possibly all of its vertical farming technology to the grain and fiber production in the next 10 years.
No farmers. No food. No future. That is the saying that reminds us to value not just where our food comes from, but the farmers that grow it for us, writes Henry Gordon-Smith as an introduction to deep research his team has done into labor shortage in the Middle East.
From space bakeries to bioreactors, here’s what excites Urban Crop Solutions’ founder Maarten Vandecruys about controlled environment agriculture.
Vertical farms in Calgary and Montreal will enable GoodLeaf Farms to serve Canadian customers coast to coast starting in 2023.
Berlin, Germany-based Infarm cites skyrocketing energy prices and the wider downturn as reasons for these latest cuts for indoor farming.
War and supply chain issues make indoor wheat an attractive concept. Can the vertical farming industry manage to grow that crop at scale?
The trough of disillusionment for vertical farming startups is upon us; now comes the time for depression and correction.
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