11-4 IAN Korean Producer

 Borrowing a play out of quirky Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis' playbook, one South Korean scientist is urging farmers "to go vertical".  But he's not suggesting you trade your slow running back for a speedy wide out, he's talking about large scale  urban agriculture to feed the world’s burgeoning population.  Hi, I'm David Sparks, and in a minute I'll show you why this isn't some pie in the sky story, although most of the ingredients may soon be growing a good bit closer to it than you think. Standardized agriculture.  “That typically is not what fascinates people. It’s this flash, vertical, indoor, lights.”Those words from Crop King President Paul Brentlinger don’t match up with a food producer in South Korea. An article in Science Daily reports that one day, Choi Kyu Hong might find himself in a vegetable garden on the 65th floor of a skyscraper. But, so far, his dream of picking fresh vegetables some 655 feet up has only been realized in hundreds of architectural designs. Choi Kyu Hong is an agricultural scientist who works in a nondescript three-story building in the South Korean city of Suwon. The only thing that makes the squat structure stand out is the solar panels on its roof, which provide power for the prototype of a farm Choi is working on. If he and his colleagues succeed, their efforts may change the future of urban farming -- and how the world gets its food.

Inside his building, heads of lettuce covering 4,800 square feet are being painstakingly cultivated. Light and

temperature levels are precisely regulated.