Biogen Photosynthesis

Chad Schofield, the founder of BioGen ag systems described about a system he has designed to grow fodder for livestock which is cheaper, more nutritious and faster than anything conventional farming produces. It's basically a greenhouse in a standard ISO shipping container. “We have the growth units inside. The farmer will go in and he'll plant a tray of seeds. He'll consume about 25 pounds of seed a day per shelf of whatever he's planting and he will harvest close to 300 pounds a day per shelf from those ISO containers. It's just a matter of how many shelves you plan on consuming to increase your volume. And since it's internal you have some sort of lighting system?

No these things will grow in the dark. We can add lights but the lights don't add any nutrition to a sprout. The seed carries everything it needs to, in the short term, to grow. When you plant a seed in the ground there’s no sunlight underground. So it will grow for days before it actually breaks the surface and can get access to the sun and even then it doesn't need the sun. It only needs sunlight when it creates a stem. That's when photosynthesis will begin.”