Why Vertical Farming Could Be On The Verge Of A Revolution -- And What's Keeping It Down

Why Vertical Farming Could Be On The Verge Of A Revolution -- And What's Keeping It Down

What’s holding many farms back is the struggle to simultaneously increase their yield-per-square-foot and decrease the cost of production -- particularly the cost of powering round-the-clock lights, which is high.
Another factor, Harper argues, is that many operations are working in a “black box mode,” trying to address too many production concerns completely in-house rather than attempting to collaborate and share information with other farms. He likens the current state of vertical farming to the automobile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution...