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Exploring Rooted Robotics and the Future of Automation in Agriculture
At Contain, automation is consistently one of the most popular categories on our Equipped pre-owned equipment marketplace. It’s popular…
July 19, 2024

A Wave of New Indoor Farms in June 2024
June brought several new indoor farms, with a whopping 377k ft2 of vertical farming capacity. Elsewhere, funding remained slow but…
July 7, 2024

Exploring the Potential of Hydroponic Hops: Benefits, Challenges, and Economics
The hydroponic hops market is gaining traction, driven by rising demand for craft beer and innovative approaches by companies like…
June 15, 2024

New Specialty Crops Highlighted in May 2024
If there was a theme to indoor ag in May, it was new specialty crops moving indoors. We saw moves…
June 9, 2024

How has food price inflation impacted indoor veggie growers?
Food price inflation reemerged as a topic of conversation in the past few weeks thanks to an unexpectedly high March…
April 21, 2024

Is Plant Biology How CEA Fixes Its Business Model?
The Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) industry finds itself at a crossroads. Recent bankruptcies have spotlighted the sector’s struggle with profitability,…
March 10, 2024

Five Ways to Up Your Vertical Farm Funding Odds in 2024
There’s no hiding that the vertical farm funding environment has been tough over the past year. The bad news is…
January 15, 2024

Five Farm Projects That Give Us Hope for Controlled Environment Agriculture
The controlled environment agriculture industry may be having a rough time right now, but there are plentiful signs of hope…
January 8, 2024

2023 CEA Funding In Review
In many ways, 2023 was an “annus horribilis” for CEA funding. As interest rates rose and venture capitalists retreated from…