Vertical farming can be profitable ... Sometimes a more aggressive fall program is required to manage continuous corn residue, wheel track issues, manure application or new fields that need ...

Vertical farming could be the Segway of agriculture, falling way short of the hype. Some of the obstacles are obvious – energy use being top of the list. While LED cost and efficiency triggered ...

The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how ...

Plenty, a vertical farm backed by $940 billion in funding from investors that include Driscoll’s (DLD Ventures), Walmart and Softbank, announced that it was reorganizing under Chapter 11 in March 2025 ...

Farmers use different forms of nitrogen (N) to fertilizer corn. The most popular form is 28% N (43.4%), 32% N (40.5%), followed by ammonia sulfate (35.8%), urea (32.7%), anhydrous ammonia (20.5%), and ...

Vertical farming is pivotal to helping feed the world as arable land decreases. Companies like Local Bounti use hybrid farming technologies to grow food more sustainably. Investing in vertical ...

While U.S. tariffs threaten much of the Canadian economy, business is booming for an Ottawa-based startup that builds indoor farming units for made-in-Canada produce – also known as vertical farms.

Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Italy have proposed to combine vertical farming with solar power generation from PV greenhouses in an effort to increase land utilization.