As agtech venture dollars dry up, a new study suggests tech companies focus on tools that are affordable and easy for farmers to use.

“Not Every Shiny Robot Is a Solution.”

Long scorned by ag-tech investors, the once-simple structure is taking over indoor growing.

Greenhouses Are Having a Moment

“Electro-agriculture” is a nascent concept that explores plant growth without photosynthesis. It could revolutionize vertical farming.

Farming in the Dark

Cryptocurrency companies are attempting to use waste heat for greenhouse growing. 

Mining Bitcoin, Growing Tomatoes

Investors went wild for the utopian promise of tech-driven vertical farming. Now the industry is on the brink of collapse — can it survive by following in traditional agriculture’s footsteps?

Indoor Agriculture Faces a Reckoning

Indoor agriculture doesn’t get more local than small vertical farms right where people live and work. But the future of these farms is more closely tied to conventional urban farming than the wider vertical farming industry.

Planting Tiny Indoor Farms In Strip Malls and Office Parks

Tech-driven, soilless farm systems can serve as a useful tool to save water and shore up the supply chain. But the process comes with not-insignificant challenges.

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