Packers will be able to pick the produce one day and have it on the grocer’s shelf the next. The growing season will last from August through May. Workers, called packers, will use scissor lifts to pick tomatoes from plant stalks that can grow up to 40 feet long. When you get inside all of the glass with natural light, it’s like you’re out in the farm field with the smell of plants and bees buzzing around you,” Myers said. “When I toured it one day, it was dreary and snowy outside. No motor vehicles are used in the facility. The company wants to the entire process to be as natural as possible. The company has planted one row of peppers at the Wapakoneta farm that it is testing with a new process.ĭuring the growing process, the company uses 90 bee hives to help with pollination. The company, which operates farms in Canada, Mexico and the U.S., also grows peppers, cucumbers and eggplants at other farms. Every plant has its own tube that delivers water and nutrients through a computer software process.
Nothing is planted in dirt in the greenhouse, which uses a vertical hydroponic growing process. Red Sun Farms is the fifth-largest grower of tomatoes in the world. The facility is expected to yield 16 million pounds of tomatoes a year, the company said. The first greenhouse has more than 9,000 lights that provide “sunlight” 24/7 that can be seen from miles away at night. It might be a year, it might be two, but we’ll definitely be working sooner than later on building additional greenhouses,” said Jim DiMenna, president of Red Sun Farms. “The cost of a project like this is really high, so we need to generate some revenue.
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