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80 Acres Farms is building a fully-automated indoor farm in Hamilton, Ohio. The 150,000-square-foot facility, which will support controlled environmental agriculture, will feature robotics, artificial intelligence, data analytic, and around-the-clock monitoring sensors and control systems to optimize every aspect of growing produce indoors. <o:p></o:p>
The indoor farm will be developed in four phases. The first is slated for completion later this year and will feature grow centers for specialty greens including microgreens, culinary herbs, leafy greens, and kale. 80 Acres says the facility will allow it to provide more just-picked, year-round produce to new and existing customers, including Whole Foods Markets, Dorothy Lane Markets, Jungle Jims, and U.S. Foods.<o:p></o:p>
"This project will deliver our proof of concept that indoor farming can be fully-automated, commercially scalable, higher-yielding, and profitable. It will serve as a prototype for our ambitious plans to co-locate similar facilities with commercial customers in other parts of the country," says Mike Zelkind, co-founder and CEO of 80 Acres.
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