Articles Tagged with ''sustainable farming''

Nearly two-thirds of the world’s 50 largest food companies now participate in programs with a food loss and waste reduction target, according to the new Champions 12.3 progress report.

Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN, Arden Hills, Minn., announced plans to roll out the Truterra Insights Engine, an interactive on-farm digital platform to help farmers advance their stewardship goals, return on investment in real time, acre-by-acre, and measure sustainability progress.

80 Acres Farms, Cincinnati, announced plans to build what is dubbed to be the nation’s first fully-automated indoor farm in Hamilton, Ohio.

Big Y, Springfield, Mass., formed a partnership with The Wellspring Harvest Greenhouse Cooperative, Springfield, Mass., to receive freshly harvested lettuce year-round.

Crop One Holdings, Inc., San Mateo, Calif., through its FreshBox Farms brand, formed a joint venture with Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC), Dubai, to build what is said to be the world’s largest vertical farming facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Eden Green Technology, Dallas, Texas, unveiled Crisply, a locally grown, freshly picked, non-GMO and pesticide-, herbicide- and chemical-free produce line.

Danone North America, Broomfield, Colo.; Nestlé USA, Arlington, Va.; Unilever, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; and Mars, Inc., McLean, Va., launched the Sustainable Food Policy Alliance, a new organization focused on driving progress in public policies that shape what people eat and how it impacts their health, communities and the planet.

eHarvestHub, a Discovery Bay, Calif.-based startup backed by VenturesLab Fund, China, is harnessing blockchain technology to revolutionize the farm-to-consumer food supply chain.

Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., and California Bioenergy, LLC (CalBio), Visalia, Calif., launched what is said to be a first-of-its-kind collaboration to support the financing, installation and management of on-farm methane digesters to generate renewable compressed natural gas (R-CNG) fuel in California, thus creating a farmer-led model for "barn to biogas."

BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y., secured $55 million in a Series D equity financing led by Cox Enterprises, Atlanta.