Friday, February 12, 2021

Bowery Farming expands indoor farming

Recommendable! The future of farming is indoors?

"... Combining computer vision, logistics, robotics, and the science of botany, indoor farming has the potential to change human lives. But innovation in this area requires considering dozens of variants and doing more with less. ...
Bowery Farming may be the largest vertical farming company operating in the U.S. today. Founded in 2015, the company has introduced a number of major changes in recent weeks. ...
Last month, Bowery also opened ... in New Jersey ... Farm X, the center will focus on raising not just leafy greens like the kind Bowery sells today, but also cucumbers, root vegetables, strawberries, and tomatoes. This initiative will focus on research and development, functioning as a sandbox for considering the possible blends of seeds and conditions required to grow produce indoors. ...
a statement from the company describes Farm X as “one of the largest and most sophisticated vertical farming R&D facilities in the world.” ...
The first two Bowery farms are located outside Baltimore and New York City. An additional commercial farm is scheduled to open in late 2021 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, about 70 miles from Philadelphia. Bowery claims its facilities are currently 100 times more productive than traditional outdoor farming methods. ..."

Bowery CTO Injong Rhee on the grand challenge of AI for indoor farming | VentureBeat



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