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Sentera Brings Elevation Maps to the AgVault Platform

01/09/18, 05:56 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Sentera

New products to help manage time and resources for the 2018 growing season

Orbit Launches the B-hyve Smart Hose Faucet Timer at CES 2018; Brings Smart Watering Technology and Know The Flow™ Capability to All Outdoor Water Users

01/08/18, 05:47 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain

Orbit's B-hyve family is the first to provide a complete suite of smart-watering solutions

Elon Musk's brother is helping millennials quit their desk jobs and become farmers

01/05/18, 06:01 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech Accelerators, Containers

Aditi Roy for CNBC: Kimbal Musk has an accelerator, Square Roots, that teaches millennials how to farm out of a shipping container in Brooklyn. Musk says today's millennial farmers are trying to make a difference in how food is produced.

The Climate Corporation Expands Global Research Footprint with Robust Innovation Pipeline

01/05/18, 05:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Acceleration of R&D Advancements to Bring Analytics-Based Insights to More Farmers

The BioAg Alliance Readies New Seed Coatings to Help Farmers Achieve Better Harvests

01/05/18, 05:57 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Strong R&D Pipeline of Microbial Products Aims to Boost Crop Yields and Fight Pests

NDVI Vs. False-NDVI - What's Better for Analyzing Crop Health?

01/04/18, 08:42 AM | Lighting | NDVI | Botlink

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (or NDVI) has been used for the past 40 years as the go-to method of assessing plant health. As you may know, healthy plants reflect light differently than unhealthy ones.

Zest Labs Joins the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology

01/04/18, 05:44 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain

Company Continues to Invest in Collaboration with Growers to Solve Industry Challenges

Weather Forecasting: How Does It Work, And How Reliable Is It?

01/02/18, 09:02 AM | Lighting | Analysis and Trends | Iteris, Inc.

Hopefully, as confidence grows in our ability to forecast weather and soil conditions, much value will be extracted for more efficient operations, higher yields, and better environmental stewardship.

How do Drones Help Farmers?

12/28/17, 06:17 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | drones, uav | Len Calderone - Contributing Author

2017 - Most Popular Article - How do drones help farmers? They increase yields, save time, increase return on investment, are easy to use, crop health imaging, water efficiency and other environmental benefits. Look to the sky.

Former cannabis activist's agtech ideas are game-changers

12/27/17, 07:19 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech

Brian Blum for Israel21c: Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies has one technology to stabilize plant root temps and another to irrigate farms with dew condensation.

Second Generation Growlink Environment Controllers Introduce New Remote Sensor Module with Additional Light and VPD Readings

12/26/17, 09:23 AM | Lighting | Sensors and Circuits

All three models include the new Wireless ESM1 Environment Sensor Module, a shielded device designed to hang in the canopy that measures temperature, humidity, VPD, light and CO2.

AR Systems Develops New Automation and Control Systems for Indoor Agriculture Industry

12/21/17, 09:17 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain

System provides comprehensive control for automated farms, one of the fastest growing segments in AgTech

Grow Pod Solutions Introduces Automated Farming to the Investor Community

12/21/17, 05:37 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | Containers, Investing

Grow Pod Solutions has developed the world's most advanced growing pods. Their container farms are fully automated, and feature innovations such as greenhouse control software, Bipolar Ionization, automatic dosing, fertigation scheduling and full-time surveillance.

Six questions to ask when developing a weed control program

12/21/17, 05:36 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Consider these crop management tips from Bayer to maximize 2018 corn yield

Vertical Farming & the City

12/19/17, 09:21 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | vertical farming

Vertical farms integrated into urban environments do not only decrease the pressure of cities on rural areas, but they will provide sustainable local solutions to a large variety of issues such as urban wastewater management and valorization of urban solid organic waste.

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