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The industry was a darling of the venture capital world 10 years ago. With many farms out of business, the remaining ...

Located amid the often chilly Canadian prairie, Downtown Calgary isn’t typically seen as a center of agriculture. Travel, though, to the Calgary Tower Centre, a landmark building in Alberta’s largest ...

A decade after attracting billions in venture funding, vertical farming is struggling to live up to its promise of ...

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 ...

That sobering statistic means that, while climate change may be humanity’s biggest challenge, another daunting crisis looms alongside it: even if we manage to control the planet’s environmental ...

For years many have wondered if vertical farming is the answer to food shortage in the world. Industrialisation and urbanisation is reducing arable land that would be utilised for food production.

Your next package of lettuce could be coming straight outta Compton. Last week, I toured a 100,000-square-foot indoor vertical farm operating in a gritty part of Compton, California. The urban farm ...

SOIL. LANEY, TELL US ABOUT IT. WELL, I TELL YOU WHAT, IT’S HARD ENOUGH FOR RIGHT TO START A GARDEN OR TO GROW ANYTHING. AT LEAST IT IS FOR ME. THEY’RE DIFFICULT, BUT RECENTLY I SPENT AN AFTERNOON WITH ...