> Pests go nuts in indoor farming operations like this. You have to spray to stay on top of them.
Weird, I heard the opposite on an informal tour I took of a local hydroponic farm. They guy could have been full of shit, but he said that one of the biggest benefits of growing indoors was that you didn't have to use pesticides.
Well in sterilized vertical farming concepts that is true. Pests are eliminated. Don't even need to supply oxygen the more automated the system is.
But this concept (as I understand it) has the plants growing where there are humans present so it is going to be a dirty environment and pests will undoubtedly be a problem that needs to be addressed in some fashion.
Weird, I heard the opposite on an informal tour I took of a local hydroponic farm. They guy could have been full of shit, but he said that one of the biggest benefits of growing indoors was that you didn't have to use pesticides.