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...Construction will commence next year on the Ovra Solara Magriel solar farm, an 80,000 sq m installation on the side of a mountain near Andermatt that will generate 10MW of power....
...Infarm’s latest fundraising, when complete, would allow it to close the gap with Plenty, which also counts Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Google chief Eric Schmidt among its investors....
...The growth of additive manufacturing or “3D printing”, which former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt believes could be as disruptive in manufacturing as the iPhone has been in the consumer market, means...
...Anthony Hood, co-founder of Farm Girl, a chain of Australian-style cafés in London, says that, within a month of adopting Sunday in September, 70 per cent of sales at the company’s Notting Hill venue were...
...However, in some areas of Japan, particularly the sunny southern island of Kyushu, the sudden concentration of new solar farms led to summer generation surpluses and periodic exclusions from the grid....
...Two years later, one of the men who had been in that cornfield, Mohi Long, as well as six other Chinese nationals, were accused by US authorities of digging up seeds from Iowa farms with plans to send them...
...Google’s campus in the Bay Area was one of Plenty’s demonstration projects, and the company’s early investors include Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos....
...“This isn't about farm workers, this is about software programmers.”...
...“We thought that this report would understate the economic damage in the economy,” said Martha Gimbel, a labour economist at Schmidt Futures....
...In California, indoor farm group Plenty has been backed by Japan’s SoftBank, former Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos....
...(“It’s not farm-to-table,” says Rheljari. “We have to source very carefully when the slash and burn by farmers is killing the forests.”)...
...Ocado, the UK online supermarket, recently announced it would put £17m into indoor farms, including a stake in vertical farm Jones Food in UK’s Scunthorpe, while Scottish vertical farm technology start-up...
...In the US, San Francisco-based Plenty raised $200m in 2017, led by the SoftBank Vision Fund and including Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the former Google boss Eric Schmidt....
...vegetables and fruit that have not travelled 5,000km from farm to the shop shelves....
...Meanwhile, here’s what the indictment tells us about Russia’s 2016 election troll farm — and here’s an interview with a man who once worked in that factory....
...Coalition Juliette Majot Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy Jake Schmidt Director, International Program, Natural Resources Defense Council...
...as well as Innovation Endeavors, the venture fund of Google chief executive Eric Schmidt....
...“Caperitif has so much history, it was an opportunity that was just too good to miss,” says Badenhorst, as his farm dogs roll in the red Swartland dust around us....
...When Bayer announced its bid for US rival Monsanto in May, Susanne Schmidt immediately sold her shares in the German company....
...Ends tomorrow, sundance.org Photographs: Sundance Institute/Barbara Schmidt; Michael Latham...
...Christian Schmidt, Germany’s agriculture minister, said at a crisis summit in Berlin that the aid would include loans and tax relief....
...He grew up on a farm in Taranaki on New Zealand’s North Island with four brothers and three sisters....
...Almost immediately, Van Vleck began to transform the property from a working farm and orchard into a landscaped estate....
...Photographs: Alamy; Jochen Schmidt; Michael Howard/Four Corners; Bob Jones; Dreamstime...
...Mr Schmidt produced his prizewinning photo series Lebensmittel (Food Stuff) between 2006 and 2010....
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