The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a nonprofit organization established through bipartisan congressional support in the 2014 Farm Bill, announced a Seeding Solutions grant awarded to AeroFarms, a leading indoor vertical farming company with global headquarters in Newark, New Jersey. Principal Investigator Roger Buelow, Chief Technology Officer at AeroFarms, will collaborate with Rutgers University and Cornell University scientists to take advantage of the precision that is possible in indoor vertical farming systems, where “stressors” from light to humidity to temperature can be controlled consistently and precisely to improve specialty crop characteristics such as taste and nutritional quality.
Commercial Agriculture
For craft beer lovers, hops farming is catching on
Jim Simon – Department of Plant Biology; Megan Muehlbauer – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers Ultra-Niche Crop Series to feature basil.
Jenny Carleo – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Retired Agricultural Agent Win Cowgill and NC-140 Regional Rootstock Research Team Receive 2017 Shepard Award
Retired Hunterdon County agricultural agent Win Cowgill and fellow NC-140 Regional Rootstock Research Project members were the recipients of the American Pomological Society’s (ASP) 2017 P.H. Shepard Award for the best paper published in the Journal of the American Pomological Society, awarded at the APS business meeting held at American Society for Horticulture Science annual […]
AeroFarms Receives $1 Million Research Grant
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
This summer, where are all the local plums?
Hemant Gohil – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Ever wanted to start your own vineyard? Welcome to wine camp
Hemant Gohil – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
How Giving Back Has Revitalized American Farming
Richard Van Vranken – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers Climate Institute Receives NIFA Grants for Multi-State Climate Adaptation Projects
In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced nine grants totaling more than $8 million to study and develop new approaches for the agriculture sector to adapt to and mitigate the effects of changing environmental conditions. The funding is made possible through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research […]
When it comes to agriculture, rely on ‘rules of thumb’
Steve Komar, County Agent II, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Sussex County
