Max Armstrong reports on vertical farming and recent reports that the effort to boost high-tech urban markets are seeing tough times. He shares insight from Fast Company reporting there’s a “reckoning” ahead for the investment on vertical farms. Investors were drawn by the opportunity to disrupt a 10,000-year-old industry with new tech, the Fast Company report shows that financing is dying up for these facilities.

Max Armstrong's Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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