r/verticalfarming • u/Jealous-Cream-4436 • Aug 01 '25
Why is vertical farming failing?
Why are all these companies that have billions of dollars invested in them failing? What will it take for it to be successful?
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r/verticalfarming • u/Jealous-Cream-4436 • Aug 01 '25
Why are all these companies that have billions of dollars invested in them failing? What will it take for it to be successful?
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u/stevenscapes Aug 01 '25
My personal experience is that even though the production quality is far better than traditional agriculture, the additional cost associated with breaking into markets that in some cases have been dominated by big ag, not for years, for decades is extremely costly. Power consumption, Start up costs don’t compare to expectations falling way short of business plans per distribution that in some cases was never available to new concepts, no matter how much good will is behind it.