Grōv Technologies Receives Prestigious Fast Company 2021 World Changing Ideas Award The Grōv Olympus Tower Farm, which grows animal feed indoors, gives animal ag producers the science and technology to address droughts, changing climates and increasing food demands
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VINEYARD, Utah, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Today, Grōv Technologies Olympus Tower Farm was named Honorable Mention of Fast Company s 2021 World Changing Ideas Award. The awards honor the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.
VINEYARD, Utah, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Today, Grōv Technologies Olympus Tower Farm was named Honorable Mention of Fast Company s 2021 World Changing Ideas Award. The awards honor the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.
Named as an Honorable Mention in the Food Category, Grōv Technologies Olympus Tower enters the market at a time when farmers are being asked to do more with less, amid droughts, changing climates and requirements to be more sustainable.
The helix-shaped Olympus Tower is designed with sustainability and economic viability in mind. Utilizing micro-sensors, big data and science-based growing protocols Olympus produces unmatched high-density nutrient (HDN) feed that has shown to benefit the animals and improve feed-to-yield efficiency. Taking up only 857 square feet of space, just one O
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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.