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by click-grow 10y ago
With our grow module https://goo.gl/0sClyv https://goo.gl/0sClyv some crops are already cheaper today. It is difficult to compete with 500 acres but there are some aspects we should consider - food mileage, food waste and indirect damages of intensive farming are growing and mostly because of that the food prices are trending up, same time the cost of local/organic/urban farming is going down, at some point those trends will meet. I don't think we'll get rid of intensive farming but some important crops will be grown in urban farms soon because of the cost.
- trome 10y agoEh, if you stick to specialty crops you might have a chance, I assume the long term plan is to pivot to Marijuana as it gets legalized in more states? At least in Wisconsin & Iowa, I know from family & friends that the smallest plot your gonna make a run at farming with is 500 acres, anything less than that and you should lease your land out to someone who has the scale to make the economics work. Re: food waste, most isn't occurring at the farm or distribution hubs (Savon, Unified Grocers, etc), its actually the stores where things are going bad & getting yard wasted. Locally sourcing produce doesn't seem to reduce this either, mainly due to the unpredictability of produce sales. Unless you can cut the time to market lag to a few days for the demand response, food waste is not going to be reduced significantly in the US.