Indoor & Vertical Farming - Articles, Stories & Interviews
Indoor Ag-Con & Inside Grower Announce Finalists for the 2nd Annual CEAs - Cultivating Excellence Awards
Celebrating outstanding achievement across three categories—Operational Excellence, Product Innovation, and the newly added Trailblazer Award—The CEAs spotlight growers, innovators, and individuals who are shaping the future of indoor agriculture.
Harvest Faster, Smarter: How Precise Lighting Cycles Cut Down Time to Market
One of the most effective (yet underutilized) strategies for accelerating production is optimizing your lighting cycles. With precision-controlled lighting, growers can shorten vegetative phases, stimulate earlier flowering, and ultimately harvest sooner—without compromisi
Multi-Zone Greenhouse Lighting: A Practical Guide to Advanced Dynamic LEDs
Learn how an advanced dynamic LED solution improves yield, quality, and energy efficiency in each bay of a multi-zoned greenhouse.
Lighting Innovation at Tomatoworld
Tomatoworld’s decision to switch from HPS lights to LED lights was mainly driven by the aim to reduce energy consumption. The new lighting was designed to improve crop visibility for visitors while also supporting research activities involving cameras, sensors, and robots.
Competitive Advantages of LED Greenhouse Lighting
Not all LED greenhouse lights are created equal. Learn how dynamic lighting with real-time spectrum control delivers superior yield, quality, and energy savings.
The Cost of Downtime: How Reliable Lighting Impacts Commercial Profits
In commercial cultivation, uptime is everything. Any disruption—from a single light failure to a complete zone outage—can derail production schedules, reduce yield quality, and cut into profits.
Multi-Channel LED lighting for Greenhouses
Optimizing light levels is crucial for enhancing productivity and maintaining plant health. LED lighting provides an opportunity to achieve just that, with specific benefits for growers transitioning from traditional HPS to high-intensity LED solutions.
Indoor & Vertical Farming - Featured Stories
AgTech That Can Improve Subterranean Agriculture Projects
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Underground farming requires unique practices, using the right AgTech tools makes it easier to track and control lighting, airflow, moisture and nutrients. Maintain steady conditions and keep subterranean systems productive even when surface-level farming gets unpredictable.
Crispy lettuce: achieving yield, quality, and longer shelf-life in vertical farms
Our trials with modern cultivars such as Crismina, Finstar, and Hydrolique showed that today’s crispy lettuce can handle higher light levels and warmer temperatures without tip burn, doubling yields compared to low-light, cool conditions, and extending the shelf-life.
How Thermoformed Agricultural Plastics Support Farm Efficiency & Hygiene Practices
In this article, Ansini, specialists in agriculture thermoforming, look at why thermoformed plastics are emerging as an ideal material choice for farms, balancing hygiene, cost and sustainability.
Indoor & Vertical Farming - News Headlines
Digital Farming Market Innovation Driving Sustainable Agriculture
Discover how the Digital Farming Market is reshaping agriculture through smart technologies like IoT, AI, and precision tools. This blog explores growth drivers, trends, key regional insights, and future outlook shaping the global Digital Farming Market.
Future Growth of Hydroponics Technologies Market
The Hydroponics Technologies Market is rapidly expanding due to sustainable agriculture trends, urban farming adoption, and technological innovations like automation and IoT. Growing demand for efficient food systems is driving robust global growth.
Vertical Farming Market Set for Rapid Expansion Through 2032 as Urban Agriculture Transforms Food Production
The Vertical Farming Market is projected to grow from USD 4.25 billion in 2022 to USD 42.30 billion by 2032, driven by urbanization, technology, and sustainability needs.
Indoor & Vertical Farming - Featured Product
Advanced Mid-Power and High-Power LEDs for Horticulture Lighting
Advanced Mid-Power and High-Power LEDs for Horticulture Lighting
Cree LED's J Series® family offers a comprehensive portfolio of mid-power and high-power LEDs engineered specifically for horticulture lighting. The lineup includes high-efficacy 2835, 3030 and 5050 platforms designed to maximize photon output, energy efficiency, and long-term reliability in demanding grow environments. Photophyllâ„¢ Select options in the JB3030C and 2835 platforms deliver industry-leading efficiency with excellent sulfur resistance and footprint compatibility with 301B/H devices - making design-in seamless for horticulture luminaires. The 2835 N-Class color portfolio adds even greater flexibility with 15 high-efficacy spectral options that support precise spectrum tuning. For high-power applications, the JR5050C provides the industry's highest efficacy in its class and can reduce system costs by up to 40%. The JR5050B complements this with best-in-class efficacy in both 6V and 30V configurations. The J Series portfolio also features top-performing white LEDs. The JB3030C delivers up to 3.33 PPF/W (typical), while the JB2835B offers the highest efficacy available in a 2835 white platform. Together, these solutions give horticulture lighting manufacturers exceptional efficiency, broad spectral versatility and unmatched design flexibility.
Indoor & Vertical Farming - Featured Company
Sollum Technologies
Sollum Technologies offers a 100% dynamic LED lighting solution that modulates the full spectrum of the Sun's natural light. With our cloud-based platform SUN as a Service® and our smart fixtures, enjoy the flexibility of unlimited light recipes & multi-zone light management, and automatic dimming that provides the right amount of light in real time at any given time to save energy.
