News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Podcast: Episode 84 - Tobias Peggs / Square Roots - Exploring The Maturity of Indoor Farming And The Challenges of Achieving Carbon Neutrality

Tobias shares the company's innovative approach to creating a more sustainable and resilient business, from their technology platform to their sustainability initiatives

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VIDEO: IoT-Connected Farms – Rick Vanzura, Freight Farms

Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms, joins sustainability and climate contributor Bonnie Schneider to discuss the world’s largest network of IoT-connected farms spanning 49 U.S. states and 33 countries.

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Horizontal Vs. Vertical Stacking In Hydroponic Farms

There’s many types of hydroponic farming systems like nutrient film technique (NFT), deep water culture (DWC) and ebb and flow. All these systems deliver nutrient-rich water to the plants in different ways and fit under the umbrella of hydroponic farming

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AmplifiedAg: Scalable Controlled Environment Agriculture

AmplifiedAg is a company specializing in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), offering a comprehensive technology platform and utilizing indoor farming practices

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Shipping Containers: A Sustainable Solution For Indoor Farming?

“Using shipping containers as the primary structure for indoor farms has numerous benefits compared to traditional implementations such as greenhouses and indoor farms”

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ACTX Announces New Line of 'GrowPod' Controlled Environment Farms

Advanced Container Technologies, Inc, announced a new line of GrowPod Controlled Environment Farms to accommodate a wide range of customers and specialty plant cultivations. ACTX is the exclusive distributor of these systems, which were all designed and built by GP Solutions

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Ai-Aided Shipping Containers May Help Communities Produce Crops Year-Round

Amidst the increasing threat of extreme weather events, some American plant growers have turned to using used shipping containers to make compact and versatile indoor farms to grow crops 365 days a year

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VIDEO: Farming of The Future - From "Green Genetic Engineering" To Vertical Farms

Agriculture, as we know it today, is highly efficient. It feeds more people than at any time in history. But there is a catch: Food may fill our supermarkets, but it is pushing our planet to its limits

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All About Yields

The problem is everyone describes their yields differently. Growing slots. Heads. Pounds per square meter. Units. This makes it difficult to compare equipment suppliers and discern what your reality will be once you start growing

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How Freight Farms Is Innovating Urban Farming

Freight Farming is gaining popularity by the day. The innovative idea has taken hold in numerous countries across the globe, including areas where agriculture seemed impossible

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Why Container Farms?

An analysis of the core business and planetary advantages of container farming as CEA infrastructure--from reduced carbon emissions in construction to capital and deployment efficiencies

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Container Farms: Are They All Created Equal?

Whether you are building a container farm yourself or sourcing a turn-key farm from a supplier, the best option for you will depend on your goals

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UK Vertical Farming Company Gets A New Growing System

Powerplus Group have completed the build of a newly created container farm designed by LettUs Grow, a forward-thinking vertical farm supplier in the UK. LettUs Grow designs Aeroponic vertical farm equipment to use in research and commercial horticulture

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Italy: Growing Nine Saffron Cycles A Year With A Container Farm

"We started with trials a few months ago, but after a thorough analysis of both the agronomy and the market with one of our customers, we are now ready to show the gathered results. These have exceeded our forecasts," Daniel affirms

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Russian Scientists Intend To Grow Vegetables In Antarctica

Researchers at the Vostok Antarctic base intend to grow watermelons and cucumbers this year, as reported by the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies (AARI by its acronym in Russian)

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USA: North Carolina - Small But Mighty: 4 Things To Know About Wilmington-Grown Microgreens

When he started his business in 2016, he was growing microgreens in a townhouse. Now he has a shipping container for microgreens on the property he farms in Castle Hayne

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