News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Freight Farms Named 2022 “IoT Monitoring Solution of The Year” By AgTech Breakthrough

Data helps us to understand the relationships between the physiology of plants and their response to environmental variables at a level that has not been possible before - Jon Friedman, Co-founder and COO, Freight Farms

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USA: FLORIDA - Brick Street Farms Celebrates A Homecoming With Its New Market

Brick Street Farm owners have been slowly preparing for something of a homecoming. What started with a few converted shipping containers in a lot grew to a fleet of vertical farms in an expanded space in the Warehouse Arts District

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UNITED KINGDOM: Sustainable Bristol Student Start-Up Branches Into Prison Partnership To Aid Rehabilitation

They recently delivered an aeroponic container farm, called DROP & GROW, to HM Prison Hewell in Worcestershire where Prisoners will be introduced to indoor farming practices to gain experience in a fast growing industry and train in horticulture, with the aim of helping them secure full-time employment upon release

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CHINA: Pinduoduo Launches Vertical Farming Challenge For 3rd Smart Agriculture Competition

Now in its third edition, participants in the annual precision farming competition will be putting their skills in computing algorithms and agronomy to work cultivating lettuce inside shipping containers in a vertical farming challenge

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EGYPT: How Tulima Is Growing Urban Farms In Upcycled Shipping Containers

Hoping to use their green thumbs to revolutionize vegetable farming in Egypt, Tulima Farms uses state-of-the-art technology and ancient Egyptian farming techniques to help modernize climate-positive farming

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MEXICO: Your Future Shrimp Meal Could Come From Atarraya’s Farming Technology

A Shrimpbox farm system enables farmers to become vertical aquaculture farming operations. This includes cargo containers that can be located even in landlocked areas and moved accordingly to suit production needs

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VIDEO: It’s Not Too Late: The Future of Farming?

ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports on what could be an important part of the future of farming and how possible solutions for food scarcity may lie inside shipping containers

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New Vertical VIDEO: Aquaculture Technology Offers Sustainable, Profitable, Globally Scalable Protein Source

Housed in cargo containers, Atarraya’s ‘plug-and-play,’ AI-powered Shrimpbox delivers up to 10x the ROI of traditional poultry or swine farming, creating new opportunities for farmers — even in landlocked, highly populated areas

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Freight Farms Open House In Raleigh

Tour the Vertical Farms in Downtown Raleigh. During the open house, you’ll get to experience the future of farming and taste incredible locally-grown produce!

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VIDEO: Is Indoor Farming On a Path To Profitability?

Often criticized for their 'unsustainable finances', indoor farming companies are today, making efforts to cut their operational expenses, increase their revenues and thus, increase their profitability. But are they on the right track?

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VIDEO: Square Roots Indoor Farm Celebrates Largest Growing Operation In Kenosha With Ribbon Cutting, Tastings And Tours

The 10,000-square foot indoor farm, which is located on the Gordon Foods Service campus at 10915 38th St., has the capability of producing more than 2.4 million packages of herbs and salad greens annually, according to company officials

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Biosphere 2 Delivers First Lettuce Crop To Campus Pantry, Food Bank

The first crop of lettuce grown in a container farm at Biosphere 2 was delivered Monday to the University of Arizona Campus Pantry and the Impact of Southern Arizona community food bank. The crop included about 800 heads of red and green butter lettuce

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