Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge 2022: to grow lettuce using only AI
This year, five top-ranked international teams compete to grow lettuces entirely without human intervention in Wageningen University’s high-tech experimental greenhouse.
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Is the future of farming indoors?
This short film depicts the work of protected cropping experts at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment supporting India’s efforts to develop sustainable future food production solutions.
Securing a profitable future via high-value CEA crops
Growers investing in high-value crops such as saffron and vanilla, and in varieties bred for sustainability, are fuelling diversity in indoor cropping, found a panel of experts at the recent Indoor AgTech NYC Innovation Summit.
Wageningen University launches third, 100 per cent Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge – with lettuce
In Wageningen’s third Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge, international teams swill compete to grow the most profitable indoor lettuce crop from seed, entirely without human intervention.
Fewer food miles for fresh-vegetable supplies to China’s cities
China is boosting its resilience to supply-chain shocks by building high-tech vegetable-growing facilities close to cities across the nation.
Can science find a solution to climate-change-induced shrinking strawberries?
As warmer night temperatures shrink strawberry size, farmers are losing out – but scientists are working on potential solutions.
Urban farms thrive under COVID-19
From community vegie gardens to vast vertical farms, city-based cropping ventures are proliferating as the coronavirus pandemic up-ends food supply chains and heightens food-security fears.
Protected cropping and food-supply-chain resilience
Australia-based crop scientist Oula Ghannoum discusses how tech-enabled protected cropping can boost food-supply-chain resilience – right now, and in a post-pandemic world.
AI teams outperform traditional growers in WUR’s second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge
Wageningen University & Research’s successful second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge yielded powerful insights and ‘globally applicable’ algorithms, with AI teams outperforming human growers.
Australian vegetable grower to diversify into glasshouse cucumbers
Glasshouse producer-marketer Flavorite is emulating the European horticulture sector, growing cucumbers in high-tech glasshouses in a bid to bring year-round consistency to Australia’s cucumber supply chain.