A container, such as a pot, strip or tray, comprising at least one accommodation for at least one specimen from a group, comprising: plants; seeds; seedlings; cuttings and the like, where the accommodation is configured to be filled with a substrate and the container exhibits at least a side wall, a bottom and a top surface to accommodate the substrate and the specimen in the substrate, of which at least a portion of the top surface is open to enable growth of the specimen there through in a longitudinal direction. The side wall includes a completely open passage which is dimensioned for inserting or extracting a block of substrate with essentially a full size of an interior of the accommodation into or from the interior through the passage in a sideways direction relative to the longitudinal direction, where at least the side wall includes a cutting edge alongside the passage.

An artificially intelligent harvest and reuse system for planting vegetables has a first mechanic arm moving a plurality of planting plates around a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a first shelf and a second shelf. The planting plates are sent to a connecting conveyor for the grown vegetables thereon to be picked up by a second mechanic arm and further sent to a root cutting apparatus then to a packaging apparatus, while the empty planting plates are further sent to an exit end of the first conveyor and a third mechanic arm places nursery foams with sprouts from a storage area onto the empty planting plates. Then the refilled planting plates are sent back to the corresponding shelf via the second conveyor and placed back into the corresponding layers neatly by the first mechanic arm on a first distributing apparatus.

A fodder machine. The fodder machine includes one or more beds. The one or more beds are vertical relative to one another and each of one or more beds is offset to every other bed in both horizontal directions. Each of one or more beds is tilted approximately two degrees from horizontal. The fodder machine also includes one or more belts, where the one or more belts are configured to be a surface for the growth of fodder

One variation of a method for automatically redistributing plants throughout an agricultural facility includes, at a mobile robotic system: delivering a first moduledefining a first array of plant slots at a first density and loaded with a first set of plants in approximately a second growth stagefrom a grow area within a facility to a transfer station within the facility; delivering a second modulelocated within the facility and defining a second array of plant slots at a second density less than the first densityto the transfer station; and following transfer of a first subset of plants from the first array of plant slots in the first module into the second array of plant slots in the second module at the transfer station, delivering the second module to the grow area in the facility.

A vertical frame secured on a free-standing mobile base that has horizontal sections to which are attached removable plant bins, approximately up to 30, on the front and also the rear of the frame's horizontal sections. Each plant bin may hold one or more living plants, and the excess water level may be visible at the front of the plant bin.

A full-automatic system and operation method of integrated sorting-transplanting-replanting for plug seedlings includes a frame, feeding units for a target tray and source tray, a discarding seedling tray bin, a single-claw for replanting unit, a multi-claw for sorting and transplanting unit, seedling picking claws and a monitoring module. During transportation, the seedling picking claws pass through a seedling picking zone, seedling monitoring zone, seedling discarding zone and seedling releasing zone in turn. The monitoring module and the single-claw for replanting unit are located behind and in the front of the vertical movement plane of the multi-claw, respectively. Along a tray feeding direction, a first row of the source tray is set as a source area for replanting, and other rows of the source tray are all set as the source area for transplanting. The monitoring and sorting is finished during the transportation without stopping.

A transplanting device separates a seedling bed piece with a seedling from a seedling bed along slits and transplants the separated seedling bed piece to a permanent planting panel. The transplanting device includes a separating mechanism and a transplanting mechanism. The separating mechanism includes a holding member and is capable of separating the seedling bed piece from the seedling bed. The transplanting mechanism is capable of transplanting the separated seedling bed piece to the permanent planting panel. The separating mechanism includes an engagement bar capable of hampering movement of an adjacent seedling bed piece adjacent to a holding-target seedling bed piece held by the holding member by becoming engaged with the adjacent seedling bed piece from a side that is different from a first side, on which the stalk of the seedling grows.

The present invention discloses a structure (200) for growing and moving agricultural products, particularly for vertical farms, comprising a rigid frame (202) able to house a plurality of growing trays (100) for growing agricultural products and movement means (201) adapted to move the rigid frame (202).

One variation of a method for automatically redistributing plants throughout an agricultural facility includes, at a mobile robotic system: delivering a first moduledefining a first array of plant slots at a first density and loaded with a first set of plants in approximately a second growth stagefrom a grow area within a facility to a transfer station within the facility; delivering a second modulelocated within the facility and defining a second array of plant slots at a second density less than the first densityto the transfer station; and following transfer of a first subset of plants from the first array of plant slots in the first module into the second array of plant slots in the second module at the transfer station, delivering the second module to the grow area in the facility.

A method is proposed for remotely growing plants in a planting zone that is divided into multiple planting areas. Via an electronic device that communicates with a remote automated planting sub-system in the planting zone, a user may select desired planting area(s) and desired type(s) of plant precursors on the electronic device, and remotely cause the remote automated planting sub-system to plant the selected type(s) of plant precursors into the selected planting area(s).