Lighting Articles, Stories & News

What is a Farm in a Box?

11/07/17, 08:37 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Indoor Farming | Len Calderone - Contributing Author

Farming in a box is a system that uses shipping containers for the purpose of growing year-round agriculture in any environment. Farming in a box allows local food production through design and technology, facilitating anyone to grow food anyplace.

Yara acquires leading crop nutrition recommendation platform to strengthen Digital Farming offering

11/07/17, 05:44 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Yara International ASA completed the acquisition of Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC), which operates Adapt-N, a leading nitrogen recommendation platform in the US that improves farmer profitability and agricultural sustainability.

SensorInsight Unveils its Agricultural Kits for Industrial and Urban Farming

11/07/17, 05:41 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Providing Data Driven Crop Management Solutions for the Modern Farmer

Energy-efficient vertical farm to fight food poverty

11/06/17, 05:35 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | Technology Discussions, vertical farming

David Szondy for New Atlas: "Obviously the footprint needs to be small, so you have to go vertical. And you'll need to use artificial lighting. These are the problems we decided to solve for."

University of Minnesota AgCultures Team Heads to South America on Adventure Learning Expedition Investigating the World's Food Challenges

11/06/17, 05:30 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain

How are we feeding the more than 7 billion people on Earth? It's important to know where our food comes from, the diversity and global reach of the agriculture industry and the enormous impacts climate and environment shifts are having on agriculture.

Meet the "connected cow"

11/03/17, 05:43 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Sensors, Smart Farm

Nic Fildes for Financial Times: Farmers are placing sensors on various parts of cows bodies - including the tail, neck, hooves and stomach - to help increase the productivity of their herds.

Fly Me to the Field: How Remote Sensing Helped a Grower Spot 26% Lower Crop Rates and Recoup Planting Costs

11/02/17, 09:05 AM | Lighting | uav | AllEarth Renewables, Inc

Drone-based stand establishment for clear-cut crop counting and assessing planting efficiency.

EveryPig App Now Incorporates Machine Learning

11/02/17, 05:42 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain

Pig Health App Continues to Bring Innovation to Pork Production

The Toro Company Selects Iteris ClearAg for Environmental Analytics

11/02/17, 05:39 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

The Toro Company will utilize ClearAg global weather content for better data-driven water management support

IKEA & Top Chef David Chang Round Out AeroFarms Financing For $40M Series D Round

11/01/17, 05:45 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | Investing, vertical farming

AeroFarms: Having raised in total over $100 million in corporate and project financing, AeroFarms will used the latest round of funds for continued investment in leading R&D and technology and additional farm expansion around the world.

MCI Acquires FLOWTRONEX And WET (Water Equipment Technologies)

11/01/17, 05:42 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

The Flowtronex and WET brands have been serving golf, landscape, agriculture, and water treatment packages worldwide for over 40 years.

Farmers Edge Expands Decision Agriculture Platform into Thirteen Key US States, Advancing the Next Frontier of Field-Centric Data

11/01/17, 05:37 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Leveraging the power of field-centric data, daily satellite imagery, and predictive modeling, Farmers Edge empowers farmers to increase profits through data-driven decisions.

Seven Innovative Rain Bird® Products to Share the Spotlight at 2017 Irrigation Show

11/01/17, 05:33 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming

Seven new, water-efficient Rain Bird products will be featured in the annual New Product Contest and at Booth #709 at the 2017 Irrigation Show and Education Conference to be held November 6-10 in Orlando, FL.

The 3 Main Categories of Drones and Their Advantages & Disadvantages

10/31/17, 08:36 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | drones, uav

Sales of drones are expected to rise from 2.5 million in 2016 to 7 million in 2020, a staggering 180% increase. This means newer and more varied versions of them are constantly hitting the market, making it difficult to keep up with the different types of models.

Best-in-Class Corn Stand Counts with Drone Technology

10/31/17, 08:34 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | uav

Want to know how to perform in-depth and accurate stand counts to pinpoint areas of potential yield loss and take corrective measures at key times during the growing season?

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