NASA data and expertise helps controlled environment agriculture reach new heights

NASA data and expertise helps controlled environment agriculture reach new heights

Originally published 01/29/2024 IntraVision Group is using NASA plant-growth research to take vertical farming to new heights. Twenty- and 30-foot towers of hydroponic trays include customized LED lighting, nutrients, water filtration, air flow, and C02 levels to meet crop needs.  It’ll be years before astronauts living beyond the reach of

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Q&A with our new member Agronomic IQ!

“It takes a village to raise a child is a good metaphor for this industry, as many critical elements are required to design, build, and operate a thriving vertical farm or greenhouse. We seek long-term partnerships with other like-minded businesses focusing on over-serving the customer to ensure their success. The better

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Welcome Crop Convergence!

“We are working with growers and digital tool providers to enhance yield, sustainability, and profitability in the indoor farming space. If you are collecting environment and management data on your farm and want to enhance your decision-making, we want to partner with you.” – Kendra Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO at

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AVF Partners with GRAIN International: A Strategic Alliance in Agri-Tech

PRESS RELEASE By Association for Vertical Farming e.V., Munich, Germany The Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) is pleased to announce a significant Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GRAIN International Private Limited, a renowned Ag-Biotech company headquartered in Singapore. This partnership symbolizes a major step forward in our ongoing efforts to

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Introducing drop-N-gro – a complete turnkey indoor farm – Built by MCH, Powered by Canobi.ONE

We are excited to announce one of the most advanced modular indoor farming platforms. We have teamed up with MCH (Modulaire MCH Int.), a Montreal-based modular building company, to produce the perfect scalable solution for CEA farming. Built by MCH and powered by Canobi.ONE, drop-N-gro is a complete turnkey indoor

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DLG announces new committee for New Feed & Food

Six founding members – Chairman Prof. Dr. Tilo Hühn – Constituent meeting within the Inhouse Farming – Feed & Food Show in Hannover (DLG) framework. The location of the constituent meeting of the new committee New Feed & Food of the DLG (German Agricultural Society) could not have been better

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ams OSRAM Dominates Horticulture Lighting with Cutting-Edge Hyper Red Innovation and Expanded OSLON® Optimal LED Series

ams OSRAM Expands Horticultural LED Series with Enhanced 640 nm Red Addition ams OSRAM has introduced a new 640 nm Red LED, named OSLON Optimal Red, as an addition to its OSLON Optimal family of horticultural lighting LEDs. This innovation aims to improve the growth of common plant types cultivated

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Cities best practices and challenges in urban agriculture implementation

📣 In a recent panel discussion moderated by Balance Phala from ICLEI, experts Jia Ni from FAO, Eva Keretic from the future food campus Hamburg, Millán Berzosa from ISIFARMER and Peter Wogenstein from food council niedersachsen shed light on the critical role of sustainable food systems and urban agriculture. Here’s

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Welcome to the AVF, Elevated Signals!

Elevated Signals is a global manufacturing execution system software created by a team and culture that accelerates sustainability, scalability, and customer success in the vertical farming industry. It is the next generation of manufacturing software for complex, sustainable, vertical farming facilities. Our platform digitally transforms factory inventory tracking, captures rich

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