The global duckweed market was valued at approximately USD 89.4 million in 2025 and is poised for robust expansion. According ...

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Stacked Farm has developed a system to operate vertical indoor farms that use robots to plant, harvest and bag herbs and microgreens with no human intervention. Stacked Farm chief operating ...

Sometimes, yes. Large-scale vertical farms tend to be profitable as long as they can offset the often high cost of lighting.

Inside brightly lit, climate-controlled farms, tomatoes ripen untouched by pesticides, and lettuce flourishes in vertical towers; no soil, no sunlight, no tractors. This isn’t traditional ...

Duckweed — an emerald-green hydroponic plant — has covered almost all 3.86 acres of ponds at the wetlands this summer. The plant, which grows on the water surface without soil, makes irregular ...

Wallace Farm, the Huntersville institution that has been worked by seven generations of a single family since 1863 in the midst of the Civil War, was sold this month to an out-of-state company.

Planet Farms is not your typical vertical-farming business growing microgreens, salad leaves and herbs in a controlled indoor environment. The Italy-based company, set up in 2018 by Daniele ...

As general-purpose software shows limitations in addressing specialized needs, vertical solutions—tools designed for a specific industry or business function—are emerging as powerful drivers ...

In 2023, DOL changed its longstanding Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) methodology to set distinct hourly wages for any job description with duties the department believes go beyond the six farm ...

The village of Hongqiao, in Hubei province, China, with the vertical pig farm in the background, May 2025. JORDAN POUILLE/LE MONDE A gray dust hung over the village of Hongqiao ("Rainbow Bridge ...