“When I toured it one day, it was dreary and snowy outside. No motor vehicles are used in the facility. The company wants to the entire process to be as natural as possible. The company has planted one row of peppers at the Wapakoneta farm that it is testing with a new process.ĭuring the growing process, the company uses 90 bee hives to help with pollination.

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. 'We just finished another project at Bushel Boy Farms in Minnesota for Dutch greenhouse builder VB Group and after this project our crews will head to the West Coast to start building another large greenhouse for KUBO in California.“The cost of a project like this is really high, so we need to generate some revenue. 'We have been very busy over here lately', said Mitchell van der Drift of Mountain High. Over the past few years they were responsible for the construction for leading growers like SunSelect, Houweling's, Windset Farms, EuroFresh and Village Farms. and many companies rely on their services, specialized machinery and skilled people. The company can be considered as the largest subcontractor for greenhouse construction in the U.S. It is just one of the many projects they have realized in the United States over the last couple of years. Mountain High's crew is responsible for the foundation, building, glazing and screening at this project. The Wapakoneta greenhouse is their first expansion into the U.S, and is designed for year round production of tomatoes. Golden Fresh Farms currently operates 100 acres of greenhouse facilities in Kingsville, Ontario. The project, built for Canadian turnkey greenhouse provider Thermo Energy Systems Inc, is the first phase of the 200 acre proposed project. Subcontractor Mountain High recently started with the construction of the 77,000 m2 greenhouse of Golden Fresh Farms in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

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