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Bowery Farming Opens New Smart Farm in Bethlehem, Pa.

 By Jeniece Drake on May 26, 2022

The facility will bring produce to about 50 million people within 200 miles, the vertical farming company said.

Retailers

Oishii Brings Its Vertically-Farmed Strawberries to Whole Foods

 By Jeniece Drake on May 20, 2022

To keep up with demand, Oishii has opened a new indoor farm at a former Anheuser-Busch factory in Jersey City, N.J. 

Topics

California Water Shortages Force Tough Choices for Farmers

By Jeniece Drake on May 17, 2022

"Every acre that is left unplanted because of a lack of irrigation water is the equivalent of 50,000 salads that will not be available to consumers," California Farm Water Coalition president says.

Nonfood

Reusability Comes to the Produce Department

By Christine LaFave Grace on Apr. 11, 2022

"A lot of plastics legislation and a lot of retailers have ignored the produce section," says Lotus Sustainables CEO Farzan Dehmoubed.

Fresh Food

Price Over Appearance: What Shoppers Now Want Most in Produce

By Christine LaFave Grace on Mar. 07, 2022

As fresh fruit prices soar, FMI's 2022 Power of Produce report finds a plurality of consumers now saying price is their No. 1 factor when making produce purchasing decisions.

Fresh Food

Bowery Farming Wants to Transform Fruit Picking

By Christine LaFave Grace on Feb. 16, 2022

Strawberry fields forever: A New York-based vertical farming company has acquired computer-vision and robotics specialist Traptic as it seeks to apply smart technology to commercial fruit production.

Fresh Food

Seeing Green: Why Vertical Farm Kalera Sought a SPAC Deal for Growth

By Christine LaFave Grace on Feb. 15, 2022

"We have a very aggressive rollout strategy," COO Austin Martin says, "and we believe that being first is important in having access to the deep equity markets here."

Retailers

Walmart Invests in Vertical Farm Plenty

By Christine LaFave Grace on Jan. 25, 2022

The long-term agreement will let the retailer source leafy greens for all of its California stores from Plenty's Compton farm starting later this year.

Fresh Food

Vertical Farm Fifth Season Grows in Ohio

By Christine LaFave Grace on Jan. 20, 2022

The Pittsburgh-based grower, which supplies to Kroger and Giant Eagle, among other retailers, will build its second farm in Columbus, Ohio.

Fresh Food

Meat Sweats? Meat Volumes Feel the Heat of Inflation

By Christine LaFave Grace on Jan. 12, 2022

Volume sales of fresh meat at retail slid 7% for all of 2021 as the average price per pound across the meat department was 14% higher in December than it was at the end of 2020.

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