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Briefing
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- Indoor Farming – 80 Acres Farms in Ohio uses vertical or indoor farming methods to produce tomatoes, leafy vegetables and other agriculture products in its 10,000 square foot warehouse
- Controlled Environment – Automated LED lighting system controls the right environmental variables that will enable high quality crops to be grown
- Lifting Robots – Two robots called Sam and Barney load and unload pallets to shipping containers that can hold 4,000 plants each, with four containers filling capacity of 40,000 plants
- Automated Monitoring – Cameras in containers monitor plants while in-transit, with company looking to develop machine learning to identify pests, color deficiencies, variations in plant sizes and more to further automate quality checks and solve issues immediately
- Fresh Distribution – Builds farms near stores, including one in Alabama and North Carolina, two in Arkansas and two in Ohio, to ensure freshness of supply
- Business Model – Plans to sell technology and provide training and support to other farmers in future
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Accelerator
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Business Model and Practices
Business Model
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Sector
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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, Information Technology
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Function
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Research and Development
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Organization
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80 Acres Farms
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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February 9, 2020
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