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Ask this people. The just opened a Vertical Farm last year: COMPTON, Calif., May 18, 2023 - Plenty today announced the opening of the Plenty Compton Farm - the world’s most technologically advanced indoor vertical farm, designed to grow up to 4.5 million pounds of leafy greens annually in a single city block in Compton, California.

I dont think that´s precise. You just grab a Planee and Come to te Netherlands, To Singapore, to Spain, Japan, Korea etc. and Vertical Farming is at Full throttle

sorry, you forgot to mention the main basic physical problem: you need a lot more area of photovoltaic panels to produce the required amount of electricity for LED-lamps and air conditioning than the area of agricultural shelves. this is why they mostly produce lettuce, that mostly contains water and does not need much photosynthesis to grow. but it also has very low nutrition value per kilogram. for plants with higher dry mass ( like beans, corn, or potatoes) the required energy goes up with the organic dry mass per kg. wheat or corn would need to cost 70 $ per kg then or even more to cover the energy cost.

Micro greens are the way. Also premature produce. Broccolini for example..

Food! Not gold! So, corporations who fail to figure out the differences deserve to fail. For the real gardeners, the theory is still applicable and can satisfy their expectations. Perhaps they can combine solar power with this production to take double benefits? Especially when water becomes scarcer, perhaps farmers having no choice but applying this technology. What's so hard for a farmer to manually wind a chains system for rotating trays of their products? Okay, it's tough, but how about pushing a switch to rotate the trays? So many things a creative person can think of to make their new tech farm to produce money.

I think vertical farms will finally be profitable once we have space colonies and shipping fresh vegetables from Earth would be too expensive/impossible.

All we need is a greenhouse skyscraper that allows crops to thrive with many farmhands taking care of them. It does need all that expensive tech. And it does not need to be built in the city. Just somewhere with affordable property prices. Think of how great this would be for countries that does not have much land like Japan.

It’s simple: spend less money to run an operation that is funded by a product sold at market prices.

Nice video. Pls where is this grown, the location?

Rich kids doing business with others peoples money until they get bored and say its the others fault.

Yeah even if they don't make any of these mistakes they're still relying on the incredibly inefficent photosynthesis of plants, which harnesses only 1% of the light they recieve. In traditional agriculture this isn't a problem since sunlight is free. But vertical farms have to pay for every watt of light the crops are given.

The model would seem to suggest using indoor hydroponic farming as a model with a structure using multiple levels of floor platforms for shelves and lighting, with some automatic tech for monitoring and timing watering, lights, and use human agricultural workers instead of large system robotics. As you point out, verticals work more practically for more expensive items as far as space yield. More farming, less robotics.

considering the state of silicon valley start ups, one can argue that silicon valley style startup strategies don't work in any industry

Imagine actually wanting to eat pesticide-laden toxic food sitting outside in the PFAS-laden rain.

Eine tiefschürfende Analyse. Hut ab.

People should look more into Permaculture principles

Keep it simple

Vertical farms are failing because they are not practical, not cost-effective and the vegetables that they produce taste like s*** because it was grown artificially. End of story ...

Most people refuse to actually learn their business, their customers, and thier niche!

Whenever I think about farming, it brings back memories of how my family managed to survive after losing our farm to Hurricane Florence in September 2018 here in North Carolina, thanks to a monthly influx of $36,000.

Great video, first off though, get rid of that stuff under your nose, it just looks like a dirty mark

The reason they are growing lettuce is that they plan to grow the devil's lettuce.

Always lettuce.

A HUGE capital investment in order to sell a cheap product. What's wrong with this plan?

How much do photons cost?

The sun is essential for health, just because vegetables grow in artificial light doesn't mean you can get healthy eating them. We must get outside for our best health, so do they.

Life is hard when your stupid.

Can you grow potatoes

The sun is free.

2000 euro per m is astonishing that is at least that many crops to break even before power and water wow anyone who thought that would work can't count 😂😂😂

i did a feasibility study on vertical farms about 25 years ago and came to the conclusion that it was not profitable and that it could never beat open field farming for costs. i was given a hard time by colleges. but my cot analysis has stayed the course of time.

I thought energy would have been a huge issue.

As recession pics up power the start-up money is disappearing

Vertical Farms will only work in countries with limited space, cheap electricity and have import restrictions. If you happen to live somewhere like America where there is plenty of land then it is pretty much pointless. I see so many backyards in America filled with useless grass when they could be planting herbs, vegetables or even potatoes.

It fails because God does a better job.

Playing god never work's ✌️👏

They focused on the gadgets and not on the plants. Crisper is the way

These problems are generic, hurdles faced by any business, I was expecting a technical breakdown. Vertical farm infrastructure is expensive, to start and run, period. Fix that and the other issues won't matter.

this could make sense if there were any successful vertical farm operators. Pretty hard to advise on how to succeed when nobody has done so.

The problem with vertical farming is your biggest competitor is the sun, which is free. I feel like little kids could debunk this idea

Recycled clickbait image from the last video with one word changed 🤦‍♂️. Mining the miners🙌

Because you CAN'T FARM INDOORS, unless it's inside greenhouses! It's impossible for most food crops to grow without sunlight.

considering how much farmland is still unused this Vertical Farms are more something scientific than economic.

no need for vertical farming with robots there is a joblessness crisis all over the world

A very expensive way to reinvent the wheel

Cutting edge technology MEANS CUTTING EDGE BUGS AND FAILURES.

These start ups are great as pioneering companies into the industry, as in every industry there is an initial gold rush and 1 in 10 survive the challenges of adaptation to becoming huge players in future monopolies of innovation. I believe they were all to early, and without advanced Ai they do suffer a lot of infrastructure which requires continuous upkeep and updating. The first Ag company to go public on the stock exchange APPHARVEST went under mainly because there wasn't enough trained managers to take care of their systems of operation, and I assume the problems of creating monoculture indoors caught up with them rapidly to where the high cost of labor, and well trained labor out paced any level of productivity they could accomplish. I believe small scale companies of people who use Ai, mushroom mycology, and agriculture will be the future of farming in urban areas. It will be far more adaptable, it will allow for recycling substrate from mycology, and utilize the c02 output of incubation rooms, as well as return air from the plant operation and heat conservancy. This requires a huge generalized array of skills for the operators to keep alive, but that is essentially what humans have to accomplish in order to create artificial ecosystems that they can exploit by populating an area with beneficial fungus, bacteria, and utilizing as much organic inputs as possible, because as soon as synthetic is utilized, plants become vulnerable to anything less than optimum levels of fertility, which is a huge vector for pest attacks. Along with the fact that mycelium can encapsulate salts, which allows for heavier feeding cycles of certain nutrients. I am excited for the future of hydroponics, I grow my own lettuce and pak choy in the backyard, but unfortunately land is so expensive that I have to keep moving around, and get jobs like landscaping of graphic design in order to fit to society's flow, and my experiments and studies are constantly on pause.

Startup should always start in the backyard you know and you should always expand within your means from a humble starting point, and you can plan to add in those things over time (when you can afford it), but to fail to plan ahead is the problem they failed to plan so they planned to fail.

Basically, its FARMING. Investment takes a very long time to bear fruit, so to speak. Its a dynamic, complex, emergent system, and as such, it requires careful and tiny changes over time.

These farms would become more financially feasible when we will finally kill our biosphere.