AeroFarms dedicates New Jersey Farm to research on VF

Added on 18 April 2023

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AeroFarms dedicates New Jersey Farm to research on VF

AeroFarms, a leader in indoor vertical farming, has announced that its commercial farm in Newark, NJ, will be dedicated exclusively to R&D operations to leverage its proprietary growing technology and help solve a wider array of agriculture challenges. Combined with another R&D and engineering prototyping facility in Newark, AeroFarms will now have more than 100,000 square feet of dedicated R&D space to advance projects on next-generation crops and indoor vertical farming solutions.

With this development, AeroFarms will transfer its New Jersey commercial production over the coming months to its state-of-the art commercial farm in Danville, VA, which is expanding rapidly to meet increased consumer demand at retail for microgreens.

“AeroFarms is known for its plant science and R&D expertise, and we are fielding so many opportunities to work on future crops to expand our offerings for customers,” says AeroFarms Co-Founder & CEO David Rosenberg. “The dedicated focus to R&D for our farms in our global headquarters campus in Newark builds on the great momentum of our recent grand opening of our cutting-edge R&D indoor vertical farm AgX in Abu Dhabi, UAE, which garnered more than a half billion media impressions and increased demand from interested partners.”

David Rosenberg adds further: “Our Newark commercial farm team has been instrumental in helping establish our leading brand and product offering, and we are deeply appreciative of their contributions. We are very mindful about finding potential new roles within AeroFarms as well as future career placement services for our impacted workforce as we make this transition.”