6-17 FB Farm vs. Hydro

Does the whole  hydroponics concept work with the traditional American farmer.  This is David Sparks and that’s a question I will ask an expert next.

 I have talked with a number of people who are in the hydroponics end of growing produce. Warehouses with LED’s lighting their crops in the middle of the city or people who grow all kinds of edible crops in greenhouses that let the sun shine through to hydroponic growing techniques. But I asked hydroponic operator Paul Brentlinger who is president of Crop King if conventional farmers resent this kind of growing strategy: “That’s one of the main people that turn into our customers. Our tagline is reinventing the family farm. Our goal is to make family farmers more profitable and more sustainable off the land that they currently own. We are working with a great couple out in Pennsylvania who have a family farm. Their son got married and wanted to be involved in the family farm but they live in Pennsylvania which is very close to Washington DC which makes farmland very expensive and they can’t just go out and easily buy more farmable acres so they were trying to figure out how can we expand our family farm for more of our family. They have settled on hydroponics because they can do much more with their family farming with hydroponics and a greenhouse then they could have by just tilling the land. We do not get any snickers, especially if they do their research and look into it in such a way as to make the family farm survive.