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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