Indoor Ag

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) uses indoor technologies like hydroponics, vertical farming and greenhouses to optimize growing conditions such as temperature, light and nutrients. This approach allows the produce industry to provide a consistent, year-round supply of high-quality crops while significantly reducing water usage and land requirements.

At the former site of the Bethlehem Steel mill in Baltimore, long after that business shut down, a new business is sprouting.
This is chocolate you won’t feel guilty for eating.
Wholesome has promoted Tina Federico to business development representative.
Be ready to meet royalty at Pure Hothouse Food’s Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit booth.
Rockingham, Va.-based Shenandoah Growers Inc. has begun harvest at new BioFarm facilities in Rockingham and Elkwood, Va.
NatureFresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, has distributed six million products with compostable pulp molded trays in the past year.
Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario, is adding to its arsenal at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.
Red Sun Farms, Kingsville, Ontario, has a new way for consumers to find where the company’s greenhouse vegetables are available.
Medford, Minn.-based greenhouse grower Revol Greens has plans to add California production, with a 16-acre facility near Los Angeles that more than doubles the company’s acreage.
Agt3 Holdings, a Laguna Niguel, Calif., indoor vertical growing technology company, has appointed former California Secretary of Agriculture A.G. Kawamura to its board.
The Center for Food Safety and growers of organic food are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to stop the National Organic Program from allowing hydroponically grown produce from being certified organic.
For the eighth year in a row, greenhouse grower Red Sun Farms, Kingsville, Ontario, has earned recognition as one of Canada’s Best Managed companies.
Mastronardi Produce has been named as one of Canada’s Best Managed companies for the 11th year in a row.
The greenhouse category is expanding every year as growers look for more items that can be produced indoors, and as they ramp up the volume of the ones they already have.
Fresh Local Produce of Ohio, Hudson, is shipping salad greens to area retailers under the Free! Leafy Greens.
Cornucopia Farms Inc. (CFI), a Marietta, Ga.-based early-stage company, is pleased to announce that construction has commenced on the expansion of its greenhouse hydroponic farm.
New York City-based vertical grower Bowery Farming has placed its products in 275 Safeway and Acme stores in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Join us on our virtual tour of indoor grower Little Leaf Farms, Devens, Mass.
Millis, Mass.-based Crop One, an indoor vertical grower, hired Chris Rowland as chief financial officer.
Irvington, N.Y.-based indoor leafy greens grower BrightFarms opened its latest indoor farm in Hendersonville, N.C.
NEW YORK — Vertical indoor grower Bowery Farming has secured $300 million in a round led by Fidelity Management & Research Co., totaling more than $472 million of funding to date.
Silt, Colo.-based Spring Born, an indoor hydroponic farm, launched its website launch this week, highlighting the farm’s sustainable practices, state-of-the-art technology, and product offerings.
Lafayette, N.J.-based Element Farms completed construction and onboarding at its first facility and has revealed expansion plans: a 2.5-acre greenhouse designed specifically for growing baby spinach year-round.
Greenhouse Competitions in Leamington, Ontario, made a return this year hosting its annual Greenhouse Vegetable Awards this past weekend.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking members for a new advisory committee for urban agriculture.
Call him a disruptor in the food industry.
Nature Fresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, has hired Robert Van Der Geest as general manager of its Mexican operations.
It happened after Morehead, Ky-based AppHarvest and Novus Capital Corp. completed its business combination and related charter amendments.
The Packer is seeking input for its Ontario Greenhouse Marketing Section, which will publish Feb. 22.
Revol Greens, Owatonna, Minn., has hired Michael Wainscott as chief financial officer, a new role at the company.
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