Plenty, Indoor Farming Startup, Raises $200M
See previous recent discussion of indoor/vertical farming (1).<p>As discussed on that thread, vertical/indoor farming is great for leafy greens, but much harder for other plants.<p>See this video [2] - "Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet: Bruce Bugbee, Utah State University Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, has studied plant growth in controlled environments for most of his career. Here he presents the results of his analysis of the environmental effects of Vertical Farming/Indoor Agriculture (September 2015)".<p>A copy of the slides can be downloaded here (the link shown on the youtube page is dead - correct link[3]).<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347288" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347288</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw</a><p>[3] <a href="https://cpl.usu.edu/htm/research/publication=15787" rel="nofollow">https://cpl.usu.edu/htm/research/publication=15787</a>