US-based indoor farming startup 80 Acres Farms will cease operations, AgFunderNews has learned. “After an exhaustive effort to find a way forward, 80 Acres Farms is winding down operations,” he said. One of ‘world’s largest and most advanced’ vertical farming networksFounded in 2015, Ohio-based 80 Acres Farms was operating five fully automated indoor vertical farms at its peak. Notably, these farms were powered with renewable energy, which addressed one of the major cost hurdles associated with vertical farming. 80 Acres has declined to comment any further at this time.