S1 EP5 - Controlled Environment Agriculture with Iron OX
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The agriculture industry has come a long way from manned equipment fertilizing and harvesting fields of crops to robots analyzing the needs and delivering precise amounts of nutrients in a controlled environment. On today’s episode, we sit down with Andrew Blume, Strategic Sales Manager at Iron Ox, to discuss controlled environment agriculture and the innovative technologies Iron Ox implements to reduce waste and grow produce more sustainably, using “vastly less energy and less water on smaller amounts of land”. Want to see more from the Generation STEM team? Check us out on social media @genstempodcast, or visit us at our website at www.genstempodcast.com (https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.genstempodcast.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7CFlakerK%40bv.com%7Cd07ba19be81f4d608e8608d9b51a8d2a%7C7a53b4fce87d4c4699720570ac271b27%7C0%7C0%7C637739947913460563%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=eq7jNyAgQDB9%2Fn%2FT9NEGfju32X5ZQKJ%2FXiaDIJNCLqE%3D&reserved=0) This podcast is powered by Black & Veatch - www.bv.com (http://www.bv.com/)
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