AutoStore and OnePointOne Unveil the World's First Robotic Vertical Farm Utilizing Automated Cubic Storage - Now Supplying Select Whole Foods Market Stores

News from Autostore

The system uses up to 95% less water than traditional farming and is built to scale outward, allowing food brands to expand production to fit available space and growing demand.

Advances in carbon dioxide IoT sensors enables the reduction of grain wastage in silo bags

Neill Ricketts, Chair | GSS

To reduce this loss and ensure that harvested grain remains fresh and undamaged, the ongoing monitoring of the storage environment is essential. As such, farms and storage operators are turning to advanced monitoring technologies, with sensors placed in silo towers.

How Grow Lighting Impacts Terpene and Flavor Profiles

Article from | Iluminar Lighting

Proper lighting plays a critical role in shaping terpene production and flavor profiles, two key factors that determine the quality, potency, and overall market value of the final product.

Growing Tomorrow: Reducing Hunger through Controlled Environment Agriculture

Case Study from | Phoenix Contact

Developments in science and technology have enabled farmers to produce more and more, but today's food producers face many challenges: unpredictable weather, irrigation issues, soil degradation, and pollution.

Smarter seeds, slower systems: Why innovation won’t matter without regulatory reform

Charles Miller; Director of Strategic Alliances | Solynta

From drought-tolerant maize to flood-resistant rice, improved seeds are helping farmers maintain yields in increasingly hostile environments. But while the science has advanced, the systems around it have not.

Transforming Crop Insurance: How the SWITCH Model is Revolutionizing Hail Damage Assessment

Article from | Farmers Edge

Launched in 2021, the Severe Weather Induced Trends of Crop Health (SWITCH) model leverages remote sensing and proprietary Farmers Edge data models to create detailed, field-level maps of hail damage.

Not Your Average Ag Pest, Why Mosquitoes Deserve a Spot on the Radar

Grady Moore | Farmsense

With the 2025 mosquito season upon us, we believe it’s important to spotlight the risks these pests pose to human health and overall agricultural productivity. Their expanding habitat range, driven largely in part by climate change, makes it clear: awareness is critical.

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5 Innovative Ways Farmers Are Turning By-Products Into Functional Beverages

Article from Martin Banks, Managing Editor at Modded

Functional beverages — drinks where health benefits are the primary selling point — may be an optimal way to reuse Agricultural by-products. Farmers around the globe are already turning by-products into functional drinks in several ways.

What the Agricultural Industry Should Know About the Farm and Food Cybersecurity Act

Article from Zac Amos, ReHack

The Farm and Food Cybersecurity Act is a bipartisan solution to enhance the protection of agricultural information and promote robust cybersecurity measures. Its goal is to build a resilient food system capable of withstanding evolving farm and food industry cyber threats.

Intelligent Philips LED solution helps Deliflor Hoogveld significantly improve its chrysanthemum cutting production

News from Signify

Otto van Tuijl from Deliflor Hoogveld enthusiastically explains how the transition to full LED with Philips GreenPower toplighting compact and the Philips GrowWise control system has significantly improved their chrysanthemum cutting production process.

Farmers Lab Introduces BKCC, a Practical and Profitable Vertical Farming Innovation, Poised for Global Adoption

05/13/25, 06:10 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Supply Chain

"BKCC was built on years of extensive field experience and practical trials. Our goal is to provide a system that is affordable, efficient, and easy to operate, particularly for new-generation farmers and emerging agri-markets."

Innov8.ag + 2nd Sight: A Smarter Future for Harvest & Inventory Begins

05/13/25, 05:35 AM | Precision Farming | Supply Chain

Integrating 2nd Sight's all-in-one labor, yield tracking and produce traceability capabilities with innov8.ag's already established ecosystem of agronomic and yield management technologies will help specialty crop growers and food companies plan smarter, act faster and optimize their decision-making process with end-to-end data integration.

CropLife America Joins as Strategic Partner in Landmark, Farmer-Centric Ag Drone Study

05/13/25, 05:33 AM | Precision Farming | Supply Chain

Leading voice for crop protection aligns with Stratovation Group initiative to explore practical drone applications on the farm

Big change, made simple: The World's Smallest Carbon Capture System Debuts at GreenTech 2025

05/13/25, 05:32 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Supply Chain

With a compact footprint of just a fraction of a cubic meter and weighing only 30 kg, WP-2 is tailor-made for research facilities, nurseries, container farms, and in-store urban farms where space and budget matter. By capturing CO2 directly from the air, it offers growers a sustainable alternative to costly and inconsistent liquid CO2 supplies.

igus Wins American Society of Mechanical Engineers Award for Groundbreaking e-loop Cable Management System

05/12/25, 12:40 PM | Precision Farming | Supply Chain | igus

The e-loop represents a groundbreaking advancement in cable management technology for dynamic hanging applications in demanding industries such as oil and gas, wind energy, and construction. This innovative product integrates high-performance polymer energy chains with a robust composite rope, significantly enhancing operational safety, reliability, and sustainability.

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Elmo Motion Control Ltd.

(Petach-Tikva, , Israel)

Elmo has been a motion control technology leader for over 35 years, with millions of servo drives working 24/7 worldwide. Elmo offers complete motion control solutions from design to delivery of cutting-edge servo drives, network-based multi-axis motion controllers, and integrated servo motors. All solutions can be customized and configured using Elmo's proprietary advanced and easy-to-use software tools for any machine in any industry, such as semiconductors, lasers, robots, life sciences, industrial automation, AGV, and more. The company employs more than 350 personnel with headquarters in Israel and offices in the United States, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Singapore, and an additional manufacturing facility in Poland. Elmo has a worldwide distribution network. By advancing motion control with state-of-the-art technology, Elmo makes smart machines even smarter. As of 2022, Elmo is a Bosch Rexroth company.