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Elevate Farms Inc.: Tech-based Vertical Farming Company Completes Capital Funding to Scale Operations and Secure IP

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PRESS RELEASE – Toronto, CANADA / A tech-based vertical farming company focused on cost-effectively growing leafy green vegetables at mass scale, Elevate Farms Inc. (“Elevate Farms”) is pleased to announce the closing of a $1.8M funding led by Brightspark Ventures.     Elevate Farms unique solution uses hydroponics and a proprietary automation system, paired with photobiology, to […]

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Bad Certification News from Canada

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A negative situation is brewing in Canada that could spread across borders and set back aquaponics’ progress worldwide. CanadaGAP, a government-recognized food safety certification program, stated that it will withdraw CanadaGAP certification for Aquaponic production effective March 31, 2020. Unfortunately, the decision appears to be based on faulty and/or incomplete information: “New information has come […]

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Canadian researchers advance supplemental lighting for the greenhouse industry

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By Brian Poel, originally published in LightHort New technologies in controlled-environment agriculture allow growers to manage crop production in ways like never before. Dr. Xiuming Hao and his team at the Harrow Research and Development Centre (HRDC) are guiding Ontario greenhouse vegetable growers to implement these technologies in their production systems. Their mission is to […]

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NPR Broadcast: How Canada Became a Greenhouse Superpower

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NPR June 16, 20164:33 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By Dan Charles If you’re a home gardener in most of the country, your tomato plants are probably just getting started. It’s not even officially summer. Yet if you go to the grocery store, you’ll probably see tomatoes that come from even farther north: […]

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