Why can’t we grow all our crops using vertical farming already?

Question

The transition to vertical farming, would IMHO, allow regular farmland to transition to forest — which would help offset carbon — and reduce the cost for regular farmers bc the crops would grown in a more-controlled environment. So, what’s the holdup?

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Answer 1

I believe farmland is much much bigger than you think. It’s harder and more expensive to have hundreds or thousands of acres of farmland stacked on top of each other and mass-managed