When vertical farming works best, knowing the key drivers

Added on 18 March 2025

Vertical farming helps offer greater revenue and profitability when you have all the right pieces in place – but what are they, and how do they best fit into your business?

Gina Mercier is IGS’ Senior Account Manager. Gina loves getting to know growers and business heads worldwide, working closely with customers, appreciating their unique challenges and seeing how our vertical farming technology can help solve them.

Vertical farming addresses many pressing issues in today’s agricultural landscape. We’re faced with growing enough food to feed an ever-growing population, while also contending with a changing climate and the various ways this can challenge traditional ways of growing. Dry summers make harvesting crops at the pace we’ve grown accustomed to near impossible, while unpredictable storms and flash floods have the power to halt yields in their tracks.