Tag: vertical farming

Plenty Unlimited Inc., an indoor, vertical farming technology company that can grow clean produce year-round, anywhere in the world, today announced it has secured $400 million in a Series E financing round, the largest investment to date for an indoor farming company.

Walmart and Plenty Unlimited Inc., today announced Walmart signed an agreement to invest in Plenty, an indoor vertical farming company, as part of their $400M Series E funding round subject to a regulatory approval.

Indoor aquaponic vertical farming company Upward Farms today announced plans to add what will be the world’s largest vertical farm to its network.

Bowery Farming, the largest vertical farming company in the United States, today announced it has secured a $150 million credit facility led by private credit accounts managed by KKR, a leading global investment firm.

Vertical Roots operates the largest vertical container farm enterprise in the country, with its headquarters and R&D center in Charleston, SC and farm sites in Atlanta, GA, Columbia, SC, and Charleston, SC.

Like most of the American produce supply, the produce in my house is a medley from the Western Hemisphere. This will come as no surprise at all to this audience. It will also come as no surprise that there is increased concern about the costs, environmental and otherwise, of this international panoply.

Infarm, a rapidly growing urban farming company with a global presence, announced today that it has raised $200 million in a Series D funding round.

The challenges posed by urbanization and the gradual dwindling of arable land is driving more farming indoors.

Consumers will be able to purchase UP super greens from a range of retailers through its partnership with Oppy in 2022.

As vertical farming and other forms of modern indoor agriculture continue to evolve and transform the food supply, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA’s chief scientific in-house research agency, has launched an intensive study of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to establish data and science-based metrics and crop production standards for CEA growers, similar to those established with traditional agriculture.