Posted on 07/05/2018 3:29:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
No. It increases the cost pretty good and can be considered bad on the environment as it requires more chemicals and electricity. It is very efficient on water use though.
“[Vertical farming] is not a fad,” Wanna bet? Why are people willing to pay three times more for the same product? “It’s not three time healthier.”
The greenhouses around here can produce two crops every year....which is what they were built to do.
Our closest hydroponic "greenhouse" produces the year round.
Either you want reasonably priced USA vegetables or you want Mexican seconds.
Fantastic article. The numbers analysis alone is worth the time reading for those interested in new agritech.
vertical farming when it matures —will enable the earth to sustain earth populations 100 times greater than those today.
Hopefully by that time a fair percentage of people will be buzzing around the solar system.
Same here in the Pacific Northwest. ‘Hot Houses’ produce reliable year-round produce.
Vertical farming seems to capitalize on space. Energy for special grow lamps could be a hindrance though.
I eat hydro every day. Our local tomato season is very short.
It is very efficient on water use though.
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I think total water use in America has been about the same for the past 50 years. Saving water shouldn’t be a huge priority considering that.
“My first thought was, ‘we could build a lot of greenhouses for $200 million,’” recalls Neil Mattson, a professor of plant science at Cornell and one of the country’s leading academic voices on indoor agriculture, who’s found that high-tech greenhouses that harness sunlight are more cost- and carbon-friendly than vertical farms that use artificial light.
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That sounds more promising on Earth. The vertical farming sounds better for spaceships.
Vertical farming: Plenty receives $200 million investment from tech giants - TomoNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dicaL7MLooQ
Aquaponics System - $75 - How We Easily Build Aquaponics Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeJ5RwqPFQ
Backyard aquaponics: DIY system to farm fish with vegetables
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBspR2p0YYM
This growing things inside? Fad.
And a expensive one.
Yes, here too. Also with the AI tech development shown here below, one day perhaps soon we won’t need any migrant labor:
AI-equipped Tomato Harvesting Robots to Farms May Help to Create Jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRwAE7UrLDA
“Vertical farming” is optimal for crops that generate a lot of income and need a lot of security... like marijuana hybrids. That is the cash crop that most if not all “vertical farms” are really going to be growing. Articles like this one like to pretend that they are for growing lots of healthy vegetables. So lets get real here. What are they really growing or planning to grow in a big “vertical farm” just outside of Seattle when greenhouses work great here?
I am sure that there are places in the country and the world where “vertical farming” works as well or better than green houses or traditional farming. The problem is that economically “vertical farms” in these locations have a difficult time competing with farms in more optimal conditions when it comes to traditional vegetables. Without the marijuana cash crop these facilities cannot compete.
“carrying a price tag of between $9 and $12 per pound.”
not in any grocery store I go to ... Costco & Sam’s have really nice organic baby spinach for $4.48/lb ...
Exactly, you get it.
Conservatives should be pushing and cheering this technology.
The left loves scarcity and this is the opposite of scarcity...
Can’t greenhouse farming be vertical?
Lower carbon? Seriously? That's a pretty good trick!
Hydroponic tomatoes beat the shipped in white golf balls every time. We even have them grown in the northern tundra. Love Bushel Boy! https://www.bushelboy.com/
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