Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork. In the US, lettuce travels about 1,500 miles (2,414 km) to get from farm to fork. That journey ...

A rising global population means that maintaining viable agricultural space is one of the most pressing farming issues of 2023 and beyond. Vertical farming is growing crops indoors in stacked layers, ...

CBS News Sunday Morning recently did a piece on vertical farming that spawned this article. For those who didn’t watch the video, vertical farming is essentially a method of indoor farming using ...

Professor Asseng, vertical farming allows food production to be fully uncoupled from soil and external climate influences. What possibilities and opportunities do you see in such indoor crop growing ...

Vertical farming companies must prioritize long-term planning, efficient unit economics and operational consistency to succeed as the industry faces challenges in capital allocation and a likely wave ...

You’re almost ready. You’ve removed dense and compacted soil layers, balanced fertility and pH through the profile and set up your soil for vertical farming. That’s how you’ll need to farm to reap the ...

Production technician Amanda Martinez, plants basils as she works in vertical farm green house at Eden Green Technology, on Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Cleburne. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer ...

In a reclaimed industrial building on the shore of Lake Michigan, crops of leafy greens are stacked 20 feet high and grown year-round with no soil or sunlight. Artesian Farms opened in New Buffalo in ...

Some consider vertical farming to be the farming of the future. It’s exactly what it sounds like; instead of being grown in fields, plants are grown indoors in vertical stacks. If you’re the type of ...

Plant factories are failing, with multiple companies closing or going bankrupt in recent months. This includes the largest vertical farm on the planet, in Compton, Los Angeles. Despite raising over ...

The growing global demand for food crops and rapid urbanization have put vertical farming stocks into the spotlight. Many InvestorPlace.com readers would know that vertical farming enables organic and ...