Every successful Seed to Sale Vertical Farming venture requires an understanding of business, technology, engineering, sustainability, computer systems, climate, environment, growing techniques and more.
CEA Advisors LLC
Vertical farming is not just plant the seed and take the money to the bank. It’s a complicated process which requires attention to every detail.
We’ve spent quality time with Dr Kozai and Dr Despommier. Two of the pioneers.
We’ve designed, built and operated successful vertical farming projects and consulted and advised on projects all over the world ! Call on CEA for systems integration and the facilitation of your successful Vertical Farming project.
The CEA Advisors team has spent years visiting trade shows worldwide, touring hundreds of nurseries and greenhouses, visiting numerous vertical farms, attending seminars and speaking on panels. We know what we’re doing !
Over the years we’ve developed a number of strategic alliances within the industry. We’re in constant contact with Vertical Farming innovators all over the world including the leading LED suppliers, experts in climate and environment, seed breeders, automation, control systems, artificial intelligence, sensors and monitoring, indoor growers and much more.
If we don’t know, we know who to ask.
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CEA Advisors: Who We Are
Glenn Behrman, Founder & President
CEA Advisors provides Advisory and Consulting services for the development of innovative indoor farming projects for a wide variety of local and international clients including Supermarket chains, Government Agencies, Investors, Universities, Commercial Growers, Researchers, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Food Processors. In Horticulture since 1971 and laser focused on CEA for the past ten ten years, we provide a holistic approach in all facets of Controlled Environment Agriculture.
Glenn Behrman, CEA’s founder and President is a native of New York City and has been involved in the horticulture industry for almost 50 years. From a small retail plant store in New Haven over the next 20 + years Glenn built his foliage business into an industry disruptive regional success, a high-volume chain of retail stores, garden centers and wholesale foliage distribution centers from New York City to Philadelphia, including a national lawn and garden import division. He has designed and built greenhouses, foliage nurseries in Florida, orchid nurseries in Thailand and tree farms and nurseries in Vietnam.
In 1994 he sold his U.S. based business interests to devote more time to his Asian ventures and relocated to Bangkok, Thailand where he established a landscape project management firm specializing in 5 star resorts and hotels and acted as a grower, broker and exporter of young plants and orchids and introduced new ornamental plant varieties from Asia to growers worldwide. After being introduced to indoor farming in Holland in 2010 Glenn returned to the United States to devote his full time and energy to Vertical Farming as co-founder and President of GreenTech Agro LLC and CEA Advisors LLC. His understanding of the industry, and his holistic approach and insight has been developed through many years of senior level day to day horticulture business management and operations. Based in Dallas, Texas Glenn manages the day to day operations of CEA Advisors LLC. He is laser focused and works full time on the design, development and operations of investment grade Indoor farms and manufactures custom Growtainers® and Growracks® for commercial clients.
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More about Vertical Farming
Vertical Farms to supply Greenhouses
With agriculture being challenged to produce locally and with more respect for the environment, now is the time to become agnostic on how we grow and consider the integration of technologies to grow more sustainably and economically.
Integrating greenhouses with vertical farms will play a vital role in the way we grow plants for food, ornamentals and biological products for other industries.
Choose the system that’s right for you
There are some very capable designers and developers of Vertical Farming systems throughout the world today. Some systems require buildings with very high ceilings 30’+ to achieve the maximum economic benefit, some offer individual climate cells, others provide Rack based systems with automation, some are modular. All make sense, but only one is right for you. CEA Advisors can assist you in making the right decision.