For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

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 ...

Imagine walking through your local grocery store where fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs grow right before your eyes in towering glass structures. This isn’t science fiction – it’s vertical farming, ...

To make sure everyone eats well in our crowded world, we need to innovate. Vertical farming systems, which grow plants intensively in an indoor setting, could be part of the answer—but to use them on ...

Estimates show that the agriculture industry produces over 6.4 billion tons of greenhouse gases annually. This amounts to approximately 8.5% of the world’s yearly emissions. With the continuously ...

What if the future of farming didn’t involve sprawling fields or endless rows of crops under the open sky? What if the solution to feeding a growing global population lay not in expanding farmland but ...

Vertical farming has come under fire in the past, with opponents blasting its high energy usage and cost. So, will new findings to mitigate these drawbacks, silence the critics? The modern concept of ...

The biggest challenge faced by the vertical farming industry is, without doubt, running costs. And it’s this that has led many, including Agricool and Glowfarms, to shutter. “One of the most commonly ...