Gordon Tam, cofounder and CEO of vertical farming company Farm66, wants to show that agriculture—combined with technology—has a promising future in cities, deserts and even in outer space. In early ...

Factories make things. They use machines to manufacture goods: Everything from cars, computers, and furniture to jeans, paper towels and chocolate bars. There is a new type of factory, however, and it ...

Food is the very nourishment of life, but it’s also becoming increasingly challenging to grow at scale. A combination of explosive and unsustainable population growth, human-made climate change and ...

Vertical farms look high-tech and sophisticated, but the premise is simple—plants are grown without soil, with their roots in a solution containing nutrients. This innovative approach to agriculture ...

According to new research out of Scandinavia, vertical farming has a ‘mixed sustainability performance’, often requiring more energy than field agriculture. Given the dramatic rise in energy costs, ...

Susan MacIsaac, donning a lab coat and gloves, takes a moment to smell the Thai basil growing a few steps away. Trays upon trays of greens fill the vast Kearny research facility as workers mill about ...

Plant factories are failing, with multiple companies closing or going bankrupt in recent months. This includes the largest vertical farm on the planet, in Compton, Los Angeles. Owned by San ...

Many agricultural stocks are looking upward to vertical farming to expand their market share and income opportunities. Vertical farming describes a range of techniques that, rather than letting ...

Interest in “molecular farming”—using plants to make therapeutic proteins—is growing, all puns intended. The surge is thanks, in part, to new technologies that offer the chance to scale production ...

A 100-square-meter automated vertical plant factory in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, is capable of producing 50 metric tons of lettuce per year. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Smart ...