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.
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.
The Packer’s editors Tom Karst, Ashley Nickle and Amy Sowder cover key topics of the week, from foul weather and its effects on Texas citrus and Chilean grapes to developments in the greenhouse growing space.
Catch up on some of the big topics in the produce industry this week with our latest episode of Packer Insight with editor-in-chief Tom Karst, Northeast editor Amy Sowder and retail editor Ashley Nickle.
Oishii, the producer of a much-hyped seedless, creamy, premium strawberry grown at a Kearny, N.J.-based commercial-scale indoor vertical farm, has closed in on $50 million in funding.
A $314 million ag-tech center — that will grow indoors, copack, distribute and sometimes process fresh greens, tomatoes, blueberries and other produce — is coming to South Carolina.