A sprawling new building that will soon be constructed in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania—at 250,000 square feet, roughly the size of two entire city blocks in Manhattan—will be the largest vertical farm ...

Upward Farms to build ‘world’s largest’ facility of its type to grow greens, fish in Hanover Twp. Microgreens are seen being grown in an Upward Farms facility. Vertical farming is the process of ...

Estimates show that the agriculture industry produces over 6.4 billion tons of greenhouse gases annually. This amounts to approximately 8.5% of the world’s yearly emissions. With the continuously ...

An architect’s rendering of an Upward Farms facility. HANOVER TWP. — An indoor aquaponic vertical farming company recently announced plans to add what will be the world’s largest vertical farm to its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Phil Lempert covers breaking news and trends in food and retail. Irving Fain is an indoor vertical farming pioneer who says, after ...

Factories make things. They use machines to manufacture goods: Everything from cars, computers, and furniture to jeans, paper towels and chocolate bars. There is a new type of factory, however, and it ...

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, ...

A pair of Singaporean firms has agreed a deal for an eight-storey fish farm belonging to Apollo Aquaculture Group (AAG) two years after Apollo was placed under ...

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Food is the very nourishment of life, but it’s also becoming increasingly challenging to grow at scale. A combination of explosive and unsustainable population growth, human-made climate change and ...

Four and a half years ago I visited a vertical farming research facility in the Netherlands to learn the basics about growing food indoors without sun or soil. Since then, new vertical farms have ...