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In September 2016, the AeroFarms Global Headquarters opened in a 70,000 square-foot facility in Newark, which is the largest indoor vertical farm in the world based on annual growing capacity. [5] The farm was built in a 75-year-old former steel mill facility and has the capacity to produce up to two million pounds of leafy greens per year. [6 ...
A 2020 U.S. survey found that typical indoor agriculture crops, per pound of crop yield, consumed between US$0.47 (for leafy greens) and US$1.38 (for microgreens) in inputs (especially seed, growing media, and nutrients) -- though tomatoes were reported at US$0.06 inputs per pound. Labor costs for container farms were reported at US$2.35 per pound.
Plenty has designed a new AI-controlled modular grow system for multiple crops; they are opening a farm in Chesterfield, Virginia that will grow more than 4 million pounds of strawberries each year. The farm uses 97% less land and 97% less water than traditional farming. [48]
Grown by Freight Farms (or "Grown") is an on-site farming service offered by Freight Farms and intended for medium and large institutions like educational campuses, office parks, retail locations, hospitals, and residential buildings. In contrast to an outright container farm purchase, Grown clients subscribe to the service for a period of time.
The current Commissioner is Joseph W. Guthrie, who was appointed on January 15, 2022. He is Virginia's 18th Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Guthrie is a sixth generation Virginia farmer, who owned and operated a beef cattle and hay farm in Pulaski County on farmland that has been in his family since 1795.
Mountaire Farms was the fifth-largest contributor to the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign. [ 15 ] [ 10 ] In 2018 Mountaire contributed $7.7 million towards GOP efforts in that year's midterm elections, which bought Mountaire CEO Ronald Cameron access to the White House on the day of the election to watch the election results.
Virginia, with a GDP of $712.9 billion, ranked as the 13th largest state in terms of GDP among the 50 states of the United States. Virginia's economy is larger than countries such as Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, and Norway. Virginia is also among the wealthiest states in the US, boasting a GDP per capita of $81,794, which ranks 19th as of 2023.
Real GDP regained its pre-crisis (late 2007) peak by 2011, [111] household net worth by Q2 2012, [112] non-farm payroll jobs by May 2014, [108] and the unemployment rate by September 2015. [113] Each of these variables continued into post-recession record territory following those dates, with the U.S. recovery becoming the second longest on ...