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Resource Innovation Institute is seeking the participation of eligible producers for its USDA Conservation Innovation grant-funded project: Data-Driven Market Transformation for Efficient, Sustainable Controlled Environment Agriculture.  The producers will be representing a wide range of facility types, geographic locations, cultivation methods and crops.  The next round of producers will join leaders such as AppHarvest (KY),…

In January 2021, RII launched the Emissions Working Group (EWG) of the Technical Advisory Council to standardize the methodology for quantifying emissions associated with indoor agriculture, determine data the market needs to understand the emissions impacts and benefits of controlled environment agriculture, and motivate the industry to utilize low-carbon approaches across a range of cultivation…

Response to Cannabis Administration & Opportunity Act Background The regulated cannabis industry produces its core product - cultivated flower - in a variety of manners and therefore has a set of environmental impacts, including energy, emissions, water and waste. The extent of that impact, however, is largely unstudied and is often misrepresented by limited studies…

Resource Innovation Institute continues building the Technical Advisory Council Working Groups for its USDA Conservation Innovation Grant-funded project: Data-Driven Market Transformation for Efficient, Sustainable Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). This comes as part of RII’s efforts to build processes and the capacity to serve producers at scale.  Taking part in these working groups will allow participants…