I think most would agree today food security and food distribution are two emerging issues with serious consequences particularly for ‘have not’ nations.
Certainly many African nations come to mind immediately given the droughts and crop failures they have been experiencing over the last three years.
In Canada we face a similar challenge.
Canada’s North needs fresh food at reasonable costs.
Muskeg is warming, methane is escaping and quite a challenge build the intermodal transportation infrastructure necessary now that muskeg is no longer frozen to transport the goods required for our northern communities.
So the question becomes… what to do?
Here is one solution.
We have discussed vertical farming (link Top 25 vertical farming companies (roboticsandautomationnews.com)) in my strategy courses over the past decade. Increasingly what was an intriguing thought now it appears to have ‘legs’.
Note. I have not spent any time researching this particular organization. But I’m intrigued by the opportunity the concept may present for Canada’s North — to have budget priced fresh food locally supplied as result of harnessing this technology.
There are number of initiatives in inner American cities occupying abandon factories as venues for vertical farms.
Imagine the ability to provide fresh tomatoes or bok choy from the garden fresh vines delivered to local grocery distributions centers at very competitive prices.
Great dollar savings, farmed by robotics, exploiting alternative energy (solar and wind where possible on the factory site), sensors, grow lights and AI make it vertical farming possible because of this new industrial age’s innovations.
Once the capital costs have been expended the major cost major consideration is for the ongoing maintenance. This cost is greatly reduced when evaluated against additional farm labour, unions and machinery. This factory operates 24 hours a day seven days a week with little staff. The price for these fresh local products becomes extremely competitive.
Why would communities not adopt vertical farming rather than drive truckloads of tomatoes for example from Mexico or California.
So if you have the time interest..
“The Vertical Farming Revolution Could Send This Canadian Stock Up 1,000%
Author: Tom Bellante
We’ve never been this many people on earth and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to feed everyone.
Farmland is becoming increasingly scarce as people like Bill Gates continue buying as much of it as possible.
This is why Vertical Farming is the solution. It is a new way of growing crops vertically, in any space with enough room for “pods”, without the use of soil or harmful pesticides.
Elon Musk’s brother sees this as the future too, which is why he launched “Square Roots” venture. They are now one of the most successful vertical farm builders.
The problem with Square Roots is that we can’t invest in it. It’s Mr. Musk’s private company and he’s keeping it all to himself because he knows it will make him a fortune.
This is why I focused my research efforts on finding a competitor which is on the stock market…
The vertical farming stock which is poised to go up 1,000% is: Sprout AI, trading under the ticker SPRT
SPRT builds turnkey vertical farming solutions powered by its proprietary Artificial Intelligence technologies.
The AI they developed basically uses data from the local environment to cleverly adapt the farming method to it.
For example, if it’s very humid in that specific location, it will send the plants less water. If there is a lot of natural sun light, then it will decrease the amount of light it sends the plants. ….. “
What do you think… an idea whose time is come?
