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Grōv Technologies says its Olympus Tower system is capable of producing thousands of pounds of animal feed per day using a fraction of the water and space of a conventional field.
Farmers are facing a problem of feeding an ever-growing human population with shrinking supplies of land and water.
At least, that s the argument Utah-based Grōv Technologies is making. The company developed the Olympus Tower Farm, which it describes as the “world’s largest, most advanced indoor vertical farming system for year-round fresh animal feed.”
A tower consists of floor-to-ceiling trays on conveyor belts, and one can produce 5,000 to 6,000 pounds of animal feed per day. That’s the equivalent production of 35 to 50 acres of conventional fields with only 5% of the water, according to the company’s president Steve Lindsley.