Farming technique

Greenhouse (46)
Hydroponics (6)
Precision agriculture (14)
Vertical farming (16)

Synopsis: Agricultural technology: Farming technique:

By contrast, the antibodies produced by PHARMA-PLANTA were derived from tobacco plants grown in greenhouses in Germany,

Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,

presented a simple elegant design for the emerging aquaponics and hydroponics industries. These small-scale agricultural operations require high humidity environments,

#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age The U s. has seen record-setting drought in recent years.

The key is precision farming: the convergence of digital technology that allows farmers to apply just the right amount of fertilizer and water on their fields.

In Idaho, the nonprofit is collaborating with Millercoors to support farmers who upgrade their irrigation systems to new precision agriculture systems.

Yet the promise of precision agriculture is to find the right mix of profit and environmental protection. e are also seeing a changing of the guard,

This includes a greater emphasis on urban agriculture such as vertical farming which, properly designed and planned, could provide the sustainable means to improve food supply we need.

They can use greenhouses in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.

Vertical farming is promising because it requires no soil, and can save space and energy and improve crop yield.

It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:

hydroponics or aeroponics, and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.

Singapore has taken local urban farming to a high level Skygreens has built the world s first commercial vertical farm in large three-story greenhouses, providing a sustainable source of fresh vegetables.

The cost of growing Vertical farming s biggest limitation is energy consumption. Considerable energy is required to power a closed, indoor greenhouse facility s artificial lighting, heating and cooling

and hydroponic or aeroponic growing systems. The amount of energy required per unit of product is an important factor for ensuring

not only that the farm is sustainable, but that it is economically viable. Recently, more and more studies have focused on pairing solar panels

and wind turbines with greenhouses to provide self-generated renewable electricity on-site. But the single technology that will be key to making vertical farms possible is lighting.

New LED light technology is the key that makes it possible to build vertically integrated farms.

There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat

But this isn just a greenhouse: Toshiba plant factory will be a high-tech facility. Itl include optimized lights set to a wavelength to grow perfect plants

Precision agriculture: Farming management based on observing (and responding to) intra-field variations. With satellite imagery and advanced sensors, farmers can optimize returns on inputs while preserving resources at ever larger scales.

Vertical farming: A natural extension of urban agriculture, vertical farms would cultivate plant or animal life within dedicated

or mixed-use skyscrapers in urban settings. Using techniques similar to glass houses, vertical farms could augment natural light using energy-efficient lighting.

The advantages are numerous, including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs.

#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.

A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

Fueling better farming is a practice known as precision agriculture which uses extensive data from a farmer's field

Precision agriculture can help farmers from Brunei to Brazil pinpoint the best time for harvesting to mitigate crop damage and loss;

Precision agriculture helps address that problem by improving weather forecasting and modeling and localizing it even within a particular farm.

At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.

Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources.

Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources...

We would have to launch water CO2 soil chemical fertilizers the materials to construct the greenhouses

As workers in Japan agricultural industry age it is becoming more difficult to obtain safe and delicious vegetables through traditional farming techniques.

Even though hydrogen-fuelled airliners would not emit greenhouse-increasing gases such as carbon dioxide, sulphur oxides or soot like today subsonic airplanes,

which consisted on leaves of"Outredgeous"red romaine lettuce grown in NASA's"Veggie"zero-gravity greenhouse,

"The Veg-01 experiment sees plants grown in zero gravity in a plastic greenhouse that consists of a collapsible plastic tent with a controllable atmosphere that is lit by red, blue,

In recent years, vertical farming has attracted a great deal of interest from environmentalists, architects, and urban planners. Such farms would use a similar artificial lighting

In addition to the greenhouse the experiment also included two sets of growing pillows with romaine lettuce seeds and one with zinnias.

our calculations of the durations of payback times took account of the entire production chain for fossil fuels and biofuels with the accompanying greenhouse emissions.

#Behind the Walls of the Largest Indoor farm in North america Farmedhere is the largest indoor vertical farm in the United states,

Farmedhere, located in Chicago, raises its plants with a technique called aquaponics. Plants grow without soil,

Vertical farming takes its name from growing plants on top of each other, often on tall racks indoors. These rooms are controlled climate to conditions that maximize the growth and yield of crop.

A major advantage of vertical farming is the sips of water it needs. Farmedhere for example, uses just 3 percent of water traditional farming methods might use.

PSFK has reported previously on vertical farming on the opposite side of the world. Most of which are developed in countries where abandoned tech megafactories are finding a new purpose in vertical farming.

Another startup in Japan is planning to build a fully automated vertical farm l

#Amazon Wants to Bring Augmented Reality to the Streaming Services Game With its recently-published patent for AR smart glasses,

the Internet giant introduces a new, disruptive element to watching video There no doubt as to the potential for augmented reality to change how we interact with our future world.

but alone they won't be enough to curb greenhouse emissions given the projected rise in demand for cars globally

Sensor-based irrigation systems show potential to increase greenhouse profitability Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators.

Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of plant physiology have made it possible for greenhouse growers to use water content sensors to accurately determine irrigation timing and application rates in soilless substrates.

The authors of a report published in Horttechnology said that the use of sensor-based irrigation technology can also accelerate container and greenhouse plant production time.

#Argentine greenhouse robot brings automation to the masses BUENOS AIRES--The new Trakür agricultural robot does not have the brains, firepower or complexity of one of the Transformers,

for its Spanish initials) to promote automation in Argentine greenhouse agrobusiness. Designed to apply pesticides in greenhouses,

the Trakür is meant to increase production of vegetables and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals."

"When one applies these chemicals in a confined environment like a greenhouse, one likelihood of intoxication increases notably,

Greenhouse robots are generally small wheeled vehicles that carry a tank of pesticide, a sprayer to distribute the liquid,

and the amount of remaining chemical to a computer outside the greenhouse, where an operator directs the Trakür virtually.

which is selling technology that its founder first put to the test in Turkish greenhouses,

-or solar-powered sensors that are distributed in a greenhouse or field. These sensors connect to backend servers that process the data collected,

since about 2005 in hundred of installations in Turkey focused on growing greenhouse tomatoes. Those systems were sold by Climateminder's predecessor corporation,

Precision agriculture will allow us to optimize resources so that it should be possible to deliver 70 percent more food on the land we have today.

#How LEDS Are Set to Revolutionize Hi-tech Greenhouse Farming It won't come as a surprise to discover that consumers all over the developed world are increasingly demanding seasonal vegetables all year round even

Which is why greenhouse farming has become a major factor in the food supply of the developed world.

Consequently the number of commercial greenhouses and the area they occupy is rocketing. In The netherlands for example greenhouses occupy around 0. 25 percent of the land area of the entire country.

And The netherlands isn t even the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in Europe. That position is held by Spain.

And the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in the world is now China. This kind of farming has a significant impact on the environment.

Commercial greenhouses have to be lit and heated in a way that optimizes growth. And up to 35 percent of the cost of greenhouse tomatoes comes from this heating and lighting.

So an important question is how to minimize the energy it takes to grow these crops.

One obvious answer is to convert greenhouses from the traditional incandescent lighting usually high pressure sodium lamps to more energy-efficient LEDS.

That might seem like an economic no-brainer but the industry has been slow to make this change because of the high initial cost of LEDS.

These guys have compared the life-cycle costs of traditional high pressure sodium lamps against those of LEDS for greenhouse lighting.

For the moment the strategy for greenhouse farmers seems clear: convert to LED lighting as quickly as possible.

Greenhouses allow for a wider variety of fruit and vegetable for a given climate. LEDS give farmers greater flexibility at a lower cost and a smaller environmental footprint.

Saturas'precision agriculture sensing system comprises of miniature implanted sensors wireless transponders and delivery of information to the farmer's Internet device:

He said three of his four 5-acre greenhouses in Panaewa sustained roof damage which will ultimately have an effect on his crops.

Freight Farms transforms shipping containers into self-contained farms that grow fresh produce using LEDS and hydroponics,

including underground, inside a skyscraper, in a tiny greenhouse and even in the cloud, to try and deal with the issue.

along with cameras and sensors that monitor the plants bunches of basil (used to make Liguria's iconic pesto sauce) growing either in hydroponics or in soil.

in agriculture, more effective harvesting of solar energy and its conversion into heat via greenhouses could enable year-round production as well as access to crops not currently available in certain climates.

precision agriculture is a welcome tool: We stand for sustainable agriculture, so we try to make the most of technology in each case,

uses hydroponics systems and LED lighting to produce a range of vegetables and herbs including celery, rocket, parsley, radish,

The operators claim the hydroponics and looped irrigation system they use requires 70 percent less water than open-field farming

Already this year wee seen advancements like Japan largest indoor farm, which claims to be up to 100 times more productive than outdoor fields.

And a new development set to open in New jersey later this year is transforming an old steel factory into the world largest vertical farm.

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