7 Biggest DISADVANTAGES of Vertical Farming
7 Biggest DISADVANTAGES of Vertical Farming
In this video you will learn about the biggest DISADVANTAGES of vertical farming.
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Vertical farming is a subcategory of hydroponic farming where plants are not only grown without any soil but more importantly, where plants are grown upwards using vertical growth layers. While vertical farming has shown a lot of promise as the next revolution in sustainable food production, it is still far from being perfect. Thus, in this video you will learn about the 7 biggest disadvantages of vertical farming.
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The 7 biggest disadvantages of vertical farming:
0:00 High startup costs
1:15 Limited number of plants
2:58 Unsuitable for tall field crops
4:23 Highly reliant on technology
6:18 High energy consumption
7:37 Need for a highly educated workforce
8:51 Lack of people with prior experience in the field
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Dude, you mentioned like 2 or 3 minor problems which in my opinion arent even real problems but rather stages of a growing industry. So more than half of the "problems" being addressed in the video are related to economics, some might as well would have just easily summarized it as one "problem" and not repeated themselves over and over again. The other "problem" was about the high consumption and vulnerability of the technology used by those vertical farms. In todays world this of course is a problem, not just in vertical farming, but all around the world and I wouldnt even say autonomic technology always needs to be part of something like this. Agricultural machines for the indoors could be developed, so that in case the automatic system fails you can manually water, ligth and harvest plants. After a few years experienced personel wont be an issue no more, time will solve this. And you also said big crops or else couldnt be grown in such a limited space, but there are multiple approaches to farming vertically and not just growing something on the wall or layered, on top of each other. Maybe the video could’ve been a comparison to usual farming, in order to show how bad or good this is and why vertical farming would be better in this case but wouldnt work well compared to normal farming here, because blabla
Why are you so upset about it ,almost you are gonna cry cos people doing dirty vertical farming , no , no ,no negative ,negative 😅😅😅
so many pain points… is this a hype or is it worth investment?
Not really brain science to have battery back up or a generator to run water pumps.
Skills needed? Ag sciences, engineering, data management… they’re farmers with busibess management skills.
Tall field crops? We’ve selectedly bred corn, Soy, etc. … or take a shortcut with GMOs.
Disadvantages in all caps or just initial complaints that will get better in time. 🤔
Some of these disadvantages are obsolete when considering that they shouldn’t be necessary.. Especially tall crop growing.. A regular greenhouse system should suffice..
This is an annoyingly pessimistic video on the subject. larger crops can easily be grown at scale to compete with surface farming, automation should only be used where appropriate, water retaining root media exists in many forms making equipment reliability less urgent, methods exist that can handle scalable growth, vertical farming is currently hampered more by assumptions regarding methods than by real obstacles, & Vertical farming needs more variety in experimental methods to break these assumptions.
Indoor vertical farming will always be better than traditional farming. AppHarvest is a leader in this!!!
This argument is the most baseline capitalist argument that kills almost any innovation in the west, to expensive upfront so I don’t wanna try
Soybeans are not a crop. They are an industrial product.
Aren’t vertical farms most useful for growing fresh vegetables and berries close to consumers cutting transportation costs and time to market delivering them fresh.
many of these disadvantages seem more like challenges we’ve yet to make trivial, it is always good to know what limits the tech is currently experiencing
Also add maintenance and cleaning to disadvantages. The level of sterility needed is insane and the water usage needed for cleaning can offset the so called water saving in some types. If a pathogen gets into these places it can sometimes mean massive time consuming set backs. These vertical farms are only good in extreme places where you can’t grow and where transportation is an issue. Everywhere else is a waste of time and resources.
Make a video on aerophonic tower
Food is nutritional with SUNLIGHT, EARTH and BUGS !!!
This is like Minecraft
Why not have some bees make hony and pollinate in v farm?
So your argument is cost and total nonsense… How do think plants grow – nutrients are provided. Not sure where to go with all of the misinformation you represent.
I really dont know what you are talking about. Limited Number of plants? Where?
Highliy reliant on technology? Compared to what?
High energy consumption? Are you kidding me?
Highly educated workforce? I dont know what your standards are. But for sure you dont need to be highly educated.
I call that quite a big bullshit.sorry mate.
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Could we put hives in the buildings and let the bees roam free and wear suits?
good thing its getting cheaper and easier and the energy crisis is ebbing slightly as renewables are becoming cheaper and more effecient
I think spacex will be looking at this regardless of whether it’s economically viable on earth. Hopefully they do enough research that it does become viable. But why can’t you have bees and fans in a vertical farm to pollinate it?
Built in some system redundancy, invest in solar power and battery storage system as an initial CAPEX investment … these wont be issues but something needs to be optimised
I am getting the feeling you have never spent a quality amount of time on a traditional farm. "High Startup costs"? Do you know how much it costs to buy a farm, the farmland, the equipment, etc? The limitations are few on varieties. You can grow most cucurbits, brassicas, alliums, berries, leafy greens, nightshades, and so on; and verticle farming doesn’t HAVE to be indoors, it can be, and presently is being, done outdoors. Energy usage is a moot point here, given the amount of energy (electric or fossil fuel) traditional farms use and the education level/manpower needed is certainly no different than that of a traditional farm. It is apparent you have minimal understanding of just how complex and multifaceted traditional farming is and many of your supposed "disadvantages" are no different than what is currently in play. The one enormous disadvantage of this style of farming will be the transition stage from the traditional farms But you do indeed have some points here and I respect that you are taking this no-nonsense "this is not a perfect system" approach.
There are many system integration providing the automation service…but may not be cheap still.
Okay, none of these, so called, "Disadvantages", are really a problem, all of which are easily addressable. And why would any need highly educated skilled labour forces, NO YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO SO 😂😂😂😂, all of these so called issues are being addressed as we speak, and the non issue issues are being approached from a different perspective.
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One thing I can’t do in winter in Canada is grow vegetables, the ground is too hard because it’s frozen solid.
So to maximize space I use vertical Grow Towers, made for $50 for 30 plants, so Two towers = $100 for 60 plants. Yields and speed of leafy greens is as per the claims.
In Summer I grow in Raised Beds and and Vertical Hydroponics, so I know both systems.
You have to convince my wife that growing Vertically in Winter in Canada is not economical, for Home growing you are 100% wrong. I have been hydroponic growing since 1980 and would not continue if it was a waste of time.
We live on Two Acres, with Two greenhouses and are self sufficient. You need to try a little harder.
6:20, just grow them in a hydroponic tower in a green house 😏
Tired old arguments – is this very old video
Still going to invest.
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Im actually working on a design to fix the tall plant problem
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Curious if geothermal greenhouses can improve the energy cost and sustainability aspect of vertical charming.
Sounds like you would be a real ball of laughs at a party. Is this supposed to be news? With any tech advancement obstacles had to be overcome. None of this will ultimately stop VF. In fact, necessity is the mother of invention and innovation is occurring at a rapid pace.
I think the difficulty of growing tall crops is overstated. You may have to have a dedicated space specifically for tall crops but 1000 acres is 1000 acres whether vertical or horizontal.
08:15 high tech required HIGHLY educated Supervisor, but not (field) individual labour / workforces, b’cuz the pumping/automated irrigation & nutrition system virtually worked for you, even while people are absent (only initial plantation of young SPROUTS that’s..) so (sufficient/guaranteed) power backup is really needed, as your statement/warning.
03:15 mentioned the selective SIZEs of plants being grown INDOOR is LIMITED,such as tall legume, soybean or large CABBAGEs, long/big ROOTs’ potatoes or carrots, etc are NOT possible to grow in these narrow (and shallow) lanes of hydroponics’ liquid solutions/mixture.
Why not have a big conveyor style vertical farm outside?
Valuable information. Thanks.
As a carnivore I like the idea of freeing up land to raise more cattle
you also need to cool the vertical farm because of the heat from the led
The largest obstacle to vertical farming is the considerable capital outlay necessitating a price that will deliver a return on investment. I am experimenting with a fodder-production system in a 6m x 3m tunnel using trays placed on an elevated platform using natural light as an alternate to a massively expensive system. After germinating the fodder trays in a dark cabinet they are placed in rows on either side of the tunnel fitting seven or eight trays to a side. Every day a new tray is added to either side while the eighth and most mature tray is removed as fodder. This produces two trays of fodder per day using a single tunnel which is perfect for a hobby-farm where the fodder is a supplemental feed. There is also an automatic sprinkler system keeping the trays moist. The downside is that there is a three to four month period in winter when growth is slowed down due to lower temperatures.
The main disadvantage has not been listed here: the difference between hidroponics and aquaponics. The former having a limited spectrum of nutrients, producing fake food, the later having all necessary minerals and plant nutritive process which produce high nutritive plants. Assuming that the major issue in our current agrotoxic system is the lack of nutrients creating a sick population it should be defined as the main problem in this technology.
re: technology not being mature
The automation technology certainly is capabile of handling it. I’ve been in automation since 1989. There may be some design hurdles, but to me, it’s really not a technology issue.
I would argue creating high value jobs is an advantage. Currently we have to get help of seasonal workers from abroad for food security while lots of skilled SWE and robotics engineers are relegated to hobby projects in agriculture. Having high skill, distributed farms as career option may allow these people to move out of urban centers