In Locust Grove, Georgia, a 200,000-square-foot vertical farm packed with brand-new automation, lighting and climate systems is being sold off piece by piece. The former Bowery Farming site, once pitched as a showpiece of “farms of the future”, is now the subject of an industrial auction: more than $70 million of assets, including over $32 million in equipment that was installed, tested—and never used.
Forklifts and rigging crews will soon do the work that robots and conveyors were meant to do. Where software was supposed to orchestrate growth cycles by the millisecond, bidders now scroll through lot numbers on an auction platform.
