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Vertical Farming to Prevent Food Loss in a Disaster

Oct.16 — Indoor vertical farming startup Plenty Inc. is working to deliver year-round produce from its controlled, resilient farms to avoid food loss during disastrous flooding, droughts or fires. Matt Barnard, co-founder and chief executive officer of Plenty, Inc. discusses the company’s series D funding round on “Bloomberg Technology.”

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Oct.16 — Indoor vertical farming startup Plenty Inc. is working to deliver year-round produce from its controlled, resilient farms to avoid food loss during disastrous flooding, droughts or fires. Matt Barnard, co-founder and chief executive officer of Plenty, Inc. discusses the company’s series D funding round on “Bloomberg Technology.”

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  1. wrecked bote

    October 16, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    This just made me think about how regulated marijuana is influencing farm innovation. Like a farm. So it has a utility for that

    • wrecked bote

      October 17, 2020 at 1:49 am

      I think this is hilarious but for all the liberals we should create phage therapy because it’s like whole foodsy. Instead of antibiotics because all the liberal anti antibiotic people I guess they’d be probiotic! all the people that make the fast food places say they cause cancer and reproductive harm, from my knowledge you don’t get trisomy 21 from acrylamides. I don’t know why that’s there It scares people

    • wrecked bote

      October 17, 2020 at 1:49 am

      I kind of question if it’s the Michelle Obama administration’s harsh dieting policies. If I go to McDonald’s I can give that to a pregnant woman. There’s no reason I couldn’t do that.

    • wrecked bote

      October 17, 2020 at 1:54 am

      I mean it doesn’t even make any sense because all cooked food has acrylamides so am I supposed to be on a raw food diet if I’m a pregnant woman? I understand pregnant women should eat healthy but why doesn’t it state that, That’s my question?

  2. zbLoodlust087

    October 17, 2020 at 12:51 am

    I’ve been talking about this forever now!

  3. Ankit Singh

    October 17, 2020 at 2:09 am

    This is very expensive every farmer can’t afford it

    • Rick Ramos

      October 17, 2020 at 12:41 pm

      Every farm can’t, this is an alternative to traditional farms and will only be cost effective for specific produce. You aren’t gonna see corn or soy being grown this way for decades.

    • Ankit Singh

      October 17, 2020 at 3:22 pm

      @Rick Ramos yes that’s the problem u can grow only some vegetables and fruits how will then grow grains..as the land is loosing its fertility…future there will be food disaster surely

  4. Eric bee

    October 17, 2020 at 2:36 am

    just need to find away to lower power costs and this might be a good idea

    • Spencer Williams

      October 18, 2020 at 5:15 pm

      renewable energy into the grid.

  5. Abhishek Sharma

    October 17, 2020 at 6:19 am

    Do you think packed veggies keeps getting recalled ??? Even though I eat packed veggies as they are cost effective, but I prefer fresh veggies

  6. Yellowowl Nighteagle

    October 17, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    They still don’t get it right though. Although I see some potential to vertical growth, I still see these vegetables being alone and isolated. The American Indian traditionalist would teach you that vegetables grow better in groups. But it takes a lot of knowledge that only they can provide. For example, if you grow grapes with a certain type of tree, not only will they offer more nutrition, the grapes will be twice the size you see them in grocery stores. Not like tomatoes “alone”, but with carrots, or cabbage, or whatever it is they told me. They are the ones with this knowledge and they are dying off because noone will ask them to share this knowledge they have had for thousands upon thousands of years. Everyone continues to listen to new-age farmers that do not grow foods for their local communities, but for a global market so that they can be millionaires. And they plant their foods in the same manner that they plant their dead in cemetaries; in plots and in rows. Don’t take my word on it, ask someone from Red-Hat A.I.M.

    • Yellowowl Nighteagle

      October 17, 2020 at 2:01 pm

      Also, innovation does not provide “sustainable life”. The plants are alive, not the plastics holding it. Flora are “seed-bearing”, not the technology. All the inovation provides is a multi-tiered growing platform, which IS smart, but it is still the fruits and vegetables that are sustainable because they are “renewable”. They are part of the “circle” of life.

    • Jspath3

      October 17, 2020 at 8:14 pm

      Not every farmer is a botonist unfortunately.

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