An indoor vertical farming company in Alberta is branching out into a new agriculture initiative: feeding hungry cattle. For the past few years, NuLeaf Farms has been growing leafy greens and herbs in its southeast Calgary warehouse. Now, the company is working with ranchers to set up the technology to grow feed.
The system uses way less water than traditional methods, which is important as Alberta continues to experience severe drought.
"Everything's become more expensive for farmers these days. Land, equipment and drought really exacerbated this," said Carlos Santos, the vice-president of business development and sustainability initiatives at NuLeaf Farms.
"So we did a bunch of research on fast-growing grains and developed a system that could produce quite a significant amount of feed out of small space at a price that's lower than the price of feed these days."
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