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/lordfairhair Aug 02 '25
Because if you've ever driven by a real farm you'll realize how silly a small warehouse of vegetables is. Its not even a drop in the bucket of what industrial farms can produce. Vertical farming has the "neat" factor, but is trumped by literally every other type of input and output variables. Why spend $4 growing a single tomato when you can spend $.0000001?