Lean times hit the vertical farming business

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Vertical farms are going through a tough period - do the hi-tech indoor farms have a future?

A long list of other vertical farms have run into trouble in recent months.

Besides the major economic challenges that have hampered many industries during the last few years, within vertical farming a debate rages over the extent to which some companies may have set themselves up for a fall. That might sound like too easy a riposte for someone who sells such technology himself but Mr Lloyd does make a good point, says Mark Lefsrud at McGill University in Canada, who consults for the industry.

Mr Lefsrud says he has occasionally been called in by firms fretting over copious trays of crops that have started to die.

 

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