Planting the seeds for better vertical farm crops

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Planting the seeds for better vertical farm crops

The US Precision Indoor Plants consortium is stepping up efforts to optimise production across the fast-expanding vertical farming sector

Humans have been farming outside for around 12,000 years. Over those thousands of years, farmers have stumbled upon or bred specific varieties of plants and seeds that do well in outdoor field farming...

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