IGS Scalability in Vertical Farming

Scalability in Vertical Farming

Traditional farming only works at scale.

And in the UK, that involves lots of capital costs at the beginning, and operating costs for labour and machines.

Watch how scalability in vertical farming automation and IGS’ growth towers can complement traditional farming and your business by helping you scale operations and create high-quality produce without adding to your workforce.

There are many other so-called vertical Farms that are essentially converted shipping containers that are quite labor intensive are actually quite difficult to control the environment within something the size of a shipping container and quite frankly do not scale.

Traditional farming only works at scale and in the UK that involves lots of capital course at the beginning opening course for labor and machines the level of automation that we bring not only enables industrial scale growing but it also means that the farmer can grow at industrial scale without having to have an industrial scale workforce.

We can complement the traditional farming model in many ways we can grow starter crops that can field earlier we can Harden crops to make sure that you have something that's much more robust and we can help you in many ways create a much more repeatable and reliable product at the end of the day.

One of the benefits of controlled environment agriculture is that you can create whatever environment it is that you want and that allows you to diversify the portfolio of the crops you're growing because you can say I want that Tower to be like a Amazon rainforest and you set the conditions and it will mimic that.

If we are going to begin to make an impact in terms of the volume of healthy nutritious product that is delivered into the food chain then we need industrial scale which means farmers are going to need tens hundreds or even thousands of these towers to make an impact on the food supply chain for a nation the size of the UK.

By coming together in a hybrid way with existing Farmers whether they're in broadacre fields or whether they are in greenhouses polytunnels or under glass we will be able to work in that hybrid way and bring new technologies to bear on existing businesses.

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