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Humans have farmed for thousands of years, but do we have any idea what we\u2019re doing?<\/div>\n
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Maybe not, said David Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of AeroFarms, the U.S.-based vertical farming start-up, speaking at the Fortune Global Sustainability Forum in Yunnan, China on Thursday morning. \u201cI\u2019ve learned how ignorant we are about how to make plants grow. Agriculture has been underinvested in for centuries.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Rosenberg has come to that conclusion based on experience\u2014and farming in a particularly unconventional way. His company, which now grows 750 different crops, cultivates them using no sun, soil, or pesticides in a plant and sensor-dense warehouses (the crops are stacked in layers). Those controlled conditions allow AeroFarms to experiment with a range of factors\u2014micronutrients, temperature, airflow, applied light\u2014that farmers have little to no control over in their fields.<\/p>\n

Rosenberg said that farmers usually apply fertilizer once, water the crop and hope it grows. AeroFarms, meanwhile, applies fertilizers many times, adjusting along the way to optimize plant growth. \u201cWe adjust the fertilizers, we\u2019ll track magnesium, iron, zinc and all the minerals and elements,\u201d Rosenberg explained. By the end of the year, he added, AeroFoods will be making fertilizer adjustments every 15 minutes.<\/div>\n
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AeroFoods tinker with many other conditions too. \u201cA plant doesn\u2019t necessarily need 10 hours of darkness,\u201d said Rosenberg. \u201cMaybe it needs 10 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you can really play with those environmental factors and all these tools in a big data way in a farm the size of [a] building, it really becomes illuminating of how plants react in different ways.\u201d<\/div>\n
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That could be game changing for food as we know it, Rosenberg explained. \u201cThere are ways you can influence taste, nutritional density, shelf life, color, all these factors. Typically farmers are just hoping for yield, but there\u2019s a lot more to celebrate\u2014not just diversity, but quality.\u201d<\/div>\n
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AeroFarms\u2019 experimentation, which draws up data from thousands of sensors, has also produced a lot of data. Too much data, said Rosenberg. \u201cThere are good aspects of data in that it makes us better farmers, but we\u2019ve realized tracking data for data sake is just too expensive. We\u2019ve started changing the dialogue from \u2018big data\u2019 to \u2018smart data\u2019 to understand what\u2019s really meaningful.\u201d<\/div>\n
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