Vertical farming promises a future in which our food is grown in pockets of spaces in our cities and beneath our feet. But how far can it really go?

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume ...

“A vertical farm generates millions of data points every minute, every hour every day,” he said. “You can use this information to optimize the systems to make the financials work even better.

Vertical farming — growing plants in controlled indoor environments with higher yields, fewer inputs and less waste — has big promise, but is struggling to reach profitability.

1. We're still early. Vertical farming has been proving itself by "learning by doing" for the past decade. Kicked off by Nasa space scientists seeking to grow food in hostile environments with ...

The modern concept of vertical farming was established by Professor Dickson Despommier of Columbia University, in 1999. Since then, it has proven to be deeply polarising, with advocates celebrating ...

Vertical farming can do more than lettuce. A research team has investigated the cultivation of six food groups in vertical farming: Crops, algae, mushrooms, insects, fish and cultivated meat. In ...

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Plenty Richmond Farm is growing strawberries on 30-foot vertical towers using 97 percent less land and 90 percent less water than conventional farms.

Vertical farming costs are expected to fall due to economies of scale and standardisation of processes, so a wider range of crops could be grown. But there is an ethical issue to consider: ...

The high cost of vertical farming is shown in the price point of the product. One 4.2-ounce, 20-count package of Oishii mini strawberries costs $9.99, for example — about double the cost of a 16 ...