![]() ![]() The company, which operates farms in Canada, Mexico and the U.S., also grows peppers, cucumbers and eggplants at other farms. Every plant has its own tube that delivers water and nutrients through a computer software process. Nothing is planted in dirt in the greenhouse, which uses a vertical hydroponic growing process. Red Sun Farms is the fifth-largest grower of tomatoes in the world. The facility is expected to yield 16 million pounds of tomatoes a year, the company said. The first greenhouse has more than 9,000 lights that provide “sunlight” 24/7 that can be seen from miles away at night. It might be a year, it might be two, but we’ll definitely be working sooner than later on building additional greenhouses,” said Jim DiMenna, president of Red Sun Farms. That's gong through a curtain.“The cost of a project like this is really high, so we need to generate some revenue. "It lights up my bedroom enough that it looks like there's a light on. "We were told it would look like the glow from a normal factory or industrial area," he said. RESIDENT CONCERN John Wehner, who lives about a mile and a half north of the farm, said the light permeates through his bedroom window and has woken him in up in the early hours of the morning. ![]() The lights are not in operation 24 hours a day, the company said.ĥ. LIGHTING The company said Golden Fresh uses lights at the facility beginning in the early morning until about 4 p.m., and the lights make it possible to ensure plant growth during cloudy days and winter months. » RELATED: 5 things to know about Ohio’s largest greenhouse farmĤ. Two more greenhouses are planned by 2018 with construction of the second one beginning this year. This first phase of the project will create 82 full-time jobs - 42 year-round and 40 seasonal - with an annual payroll of $2.9 million. ECONOMIC IMPACT The completed facility would create 400 jobs with an annual payroll of $15 million. ![]()
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