A continuously growing global population requires more space. Unfortunately, we only have so much to work with here on Earth. Space is a premium for everybody and everything. Indeed. Perhaps that’s why vertical farming is trending. Recently, Robotics & Automation News compiled a list of its “Top 25 Vertical Farming Companies.”
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AeroFarms
AeroFarms says it employs aeroponic systems to enable the production of plants using 95% less water.
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Agricool
France-based startup Agricool uses aeroponic systems to grow fruit and vegetables, mostly strawberries.
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Altius Farms
Altius Farms features "tower gardens” among its products.
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Badia Farms
Badia Farms claims to be building the Middle East’s Gulf states’ first indoor vertical farming facility, according to reports.
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Bowery Farming
Bowery Farming's leafy greens are available to buy in Whole Foods Market and Foragers. It also supplies a number of restaurants and sells online.
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BrightFarms
BrightFarms produces leafy greens and other produce in its facilities in four states.
FarmOne grows more than 500 different varieties of rare produce for the top chefs in New York City out of its Manhattan-based vertical farms using hydroponics and Razr LED lighting.
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Freight Farms
Freight Farms provides shipping containers to clients modified as hydroponic indoor farms.
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Gotham Greens
Gotham Greens has grown from a single urban farm operation in Brooklyn, NY, into a multistate greenhouse company dedicated to bringing premium-quality produce to communities across the country.
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InFarm
InFarm is based in Berlin and has reported to have raised nearly $35 million in investment.
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Plenty
Plenty retails its produce, which includes a crop portfolio of kale and other assorted greens, as well as herbs.
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Urban Crop Solutions
Belgian-based startup Urban Crop Solutions specializes in leafy greens and claims to be able to grows crops in just 21 days.
The tech industry news outlet highlighted two main reasons for highlighting the subject as follows:
1. There is a number of startup companies emerging in the sector and attracting tens of millions of dollars in investment; and
2. More people live in cities than do in rural areas, a global trend which seems irreversible, and this means that the demand for fresh produce will increase in urban areas and bringing the production closer to the consumer would make sense.
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Scan the photo slideshow above to see just some of the companies mentioned in alphabetical order. Some of the firms you might be familiar with, others maybe not.
Visit RoboticsandAutomationNews.com for the complete listing, which includes more farming operations as well as equipment suppliers.
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Paul Rusnak is the Senior Online Editor for the U.S. Horticulture Group at Meister Media Worldwide, which includes Growing Produce, American Vegetable Grower, American Fruit Grower, and Greenhouse Grower brand titles. He is based in Northeast Florida. See all author stories here.
July 21, 2019 
