RA FARMS OVERVIEW
Ra Farms is a revolutionary paradigm to crop production. Rather than growing through traditional methods, Ra Farms incorporates layers of new families of technologies that allow crops to grow under extremely ideal conditions. These conditions mimic natural circumstances, however, introduce nutrient and growing methods that are not normally realized by traditional farming. With this infusion of extremely beneficial circumstances coupled with ideal natural, yet protective and sustainable Eco-System environment, Ra Farms provide the worlds needs for mass and quality production of crops worldwide. Ra Farms products are far above organic (lacking bad things) but are actually more nutrient rich and healthier than even rich soil traditional earth-bound, or greenhouse crops. Below is a short explanation of the different segments within the Ra Farms business scope.
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RA FARMS MEMBERSHIP
Ra Farms provides memberships to leverage the equipment, technology, know how, employees via Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Licenses (memberships) to grow most of the world crops for several different channels. These channels are:
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* Meat production will come from livestock farms that are fed our organic products grown in Ra Farms facilities.
TYPE OF MEMBERS
Ra Farms will be establishing both independent and managed memberships under farming co-operatives. Independent memberships will allow members to utilize a wide variety of products and services, whereas, the managed memberships will utilize the entire suite of our super-farming technologies. These managed members will contract with our Exclusive Licensee (known as Stewards) under a variety of farming contracts, partnerships and joint venture opportunities in order to expand the Ra Farms typology and philosophy.
Independent Members are intended to layer Ra Farming technologies into the operations of an independent entity. These Members will be limited in the farm suite offering. Independent Members may include:
Types of Independent Members:
- Community Farm : City, Home Owners Association
- Commercial Farm : Traditional Farmer, County or State/Province
- Corporate Farm: Company needing specific crops for end products
- Ra Mini Farms : Residential Home Grow Units
Managed Members are intended to provide Ra Farming technologies to an end user directly, usually our own Food Co-Operative. These members work with Exclusive Licensees (Stewards) operating under the Ra Farm, usually as a separate co-operative. Managed Members will assist us with meeting farming contract obligations. Managed Memberships may include:
Types of Managed Members:
- Ra Farmers Markets: Retail Space for Ra Farms
- Ra Foods: Food Crops
- Ra Poultry Farms: Chicken and Turkey Crops & Eggs
- Ra Fish Farms: Trout, Catfish, Tilapia
- Ra Floral Farms: Flower Crops
- Ra Fuel Farms: Bio-mass and Bio-fuel Crops
- Ra Agriculture Farms: Agricultural Crops
- Ra Meat Farms: Pork and Beef Crops
- Ra Microbial Farms: Algae and pro-biotic and pre-biotic products
- Ra Family Farms: Residential Home Grow Units, within our Eco-System
TECHNOLOGIES
Lighting: Our ‘RaLight’ family specially developed for growth and photosynthesis anchors our family of lighting technologies. Our artificial lighting simulates natural sunlight more closely than any other artificial light source available. In addition to its amazing attributes of mimicking the full spectrum of visible sunlight (and crucial invisible), it more than competes with other indoor grow lights systems, using 10% of the heat and energy! In addition to the quality of our lighting, we also have engineered our lighting to simulate the natural sunrise and sunset episodes to effectively trick the plants to have multiple grow cycles (up to 15) per human 24-hour period. This accounts for a 2-15X growth over conventional farming and agriculture practices. The lights are specific to vegetative, fruit/flower production, nighttime, and pre-growth. Our lights are the longest lasting lights available, and some will outlast even LED by 5X! We even have a RaLight skylight that allows any building to be a greenhouse, and with a shutting “Iris” just like the eye, it can close off the free light when indoor plants need to be tricked to grow faster.
Nutrients: Our ‘Fossil Fertilizer’ families of nutrients are not really fertilizers at all, but a cocktail of highly dense nutrients that are connected by our proprietary delivery methods. Our nutrient chains are the most complex molecules in the known universe. These delivery vehicles, are not only extremely effective, they are organic and natural. These chelated cocktails are a combination of macronutrients, micronutrients, enzymes and natural balanced minerals essential for perfect plant growth and unrivaled superior nutrition. Our regular crops have been nicknamed ‘super-food’ by Naturopaths and Nutritionists. The nutrients are the exact proportion and ratio needed for plant animal and human metabolism, all being sourced through our proprietary microbial and plant sources!
Grow Medium: Our ‘Fossil Grow Medium’ is an extension of our nutrient family. First we combine the raw fossil fertilizer granular product in a specialized, engineered sponge-like absorbent dirt medium. Then, after the seed is germinated in a fraction of the normal time, we then move the seedling into the grow structure for a smorgasbord of other experiences, explained hereafter. The grow medium at this time experiences our unique combination of teraponics (dirt) aeroponically (fog) infused hydroponics’ (that is to say that the plant grows in all 3 know grow mediums; air, dirt and water, all at the same time). These techniques have proven to yield several-fold over typical aeroponics, hydroponics or earthbound crops.
Air and Atmosphere: Critical to the super growth of the plants is a very precise weather pattern that fosters and supplies ample growth. The carefully controlled atmosphere is free of pollutants and other plaques that can destroy our beyond organic growing experience. Purified air streams (from our proprietary technology that can even be taken from waste streams from industry or even extreme coal-fired power plants), are combined with CO2 very environmentally, than energy efficiently induced into weather patterns that mimic day and night temperatures, breezes, vapor pressure and humidity levels. The byproduct is pure oxygen released from the healthy plants! Our air systems are pristine devoid of any pollutant and pest.
Water: Our special water is manufactured to maximize the best delivery of our nutrients, oxygen and nitrogen to the plants roots, unparalleled by any known system. Our unique nutrients are bonded molecularly (in our blending technology) to oxygen and nitrogen. After this bonding, we then charge the ‘SuperNute’ (our nickname to the super nutritious cluster) to have immediate use and intake in the plant. This process has no rival in speed, absorption percentage, or overall plant health. This combination of technologies accounts for nearly a 70% increase in plant yield, superior taste and fruit quality. Our water systems use <1% of the amount of water that traditional agriculture uses to produce the same amount of annual production. This customized process of water can be sourced by dehumidifying water from outside air, as long as humidity is above 14%, in locations where culinary water or wells are not available. Some of our farm systems harvest all the needed water from the air, even though the climate outside the farm is the desert.
Electrical Fields: We have developed generators that produce unique electric and magnetic fields, which have a profound effect on the growth rate and vitality of the plants. These fields and frequencies are conducted through the water, and into the soil mediums, and directly into the plant stem. In addition we induce (not directly touching) a field and frequency pattern to the foliage and leaves as well. We have seen as much as 3-10X the growth rate and vitality when under the influence of our electrical fields and frequencies.
Grow Structure: All of these technologies reside in a single grow structure that can best be simplified as its own world. This grow structure allows for maximum plant density and vertical growing. Depending on the type of crop being grown it will be in a vertical rack system (in the case of potatoes or carrots, that need a sufficient and accessible root harvest), or in our Gyro Farms (in the case of produce that the fruit is the plant itself and roots are not a part of the actual harvest, like lettuce). This process exposes the plant to a constant workout to stay erect. This constant exercise produces 5X more growth due to the constant need of supporting nutrients during the workout. In addition, the number of plants is dramatically increased in a multiple layer of plants and density. A typical 10 x 17 x 14 Sq/Ft room in a vertical arrangement will produce the equivalent of 5-15 acres / annually Δ of traditionally grown agriculture. A 7 x 7 x 7 Gyro Garden will produce the equivalent of 1/3-5 acres / annually Δ of traditionally grown agriculture.
Δ The yield equivalent is dependent upon plant crop size and spacing of the plants and the size upon which the crop was harvested.
Sustainability: Our farming technology was build around sustainability and energy efficiencies first. This means that there is no farming operation that competes with our low energy draw or the efficient use of BTU’s. Farms can operate with renewable energy sources, unlike other techniques that consume vast amounts of energy and displace much unneeded heat. Our prototype farm demo in Salt Lake City, Utah incorporates solar weather to generate needed cooling from our proprietary IceBlock technology to cool the air while our radiant heat exchangers cool the water to the ideal grow temperature. Solar energy powers the fans, pumps and lights. Water is recycled, and with dehumidifying the outside air, can replace what leaves the farm in the form of harvested product.
Seeds & Genetics: Only seeds will need to be consumed over and over. We only use non-genetically modified (GMO) or heirloom seeds. These seeds can come from our seed farms, outside sources or from the crops themselves at harvest. Many plants can be cloned and the need for continual seeding is averted. Seeding methods to mass propagate are being implemented in current industry standards. Our current seeding and germination techniques simulate multi-seasonal exposure and we usually have seedlings ready for the grow structure in just hours-days. Custom hybrids have been developed and we are working on new varieties.
Nutrients: Our ‘Fossil Fertilizer’ families of nutrients are not really fertilizers at all, but a cocktail of highly dense nutrients that are connected by our proprietary delivery methods. Our nutrient chains are the most complex molecules in the known universe. These delivery vehicles, are not only extremely effective, they are organic and natural. These chelated cocktails are a combination of macronutrients, micronutrients, enzymes and natural balanced minerals essential for perfect plant growth and unrivaled superior nutrition. Our regular crops have been nicknamed ‘super-food’ by Naturopaths and Nutritionists. The nutrients are the exact proportion and ratio needed for plant animal and human metabolism, all being sourced through our proprietary microbial and plant sources!
Grow Medium: Our ‘Fossil Grow Medium’ is an extension of our nutrient family. First we combine the raw fossil fertilizer granular product in a specialized, engineered sponge-like absorbent dirt medium. Then, after the seed is germinated in a fraction of the normal time, we then move the seedling into the grow structure for a smorgasbord of other experiences, explained hereafter. The grow medium at this time experiences our unique combination of teraponics (dirt) aeroponically (fog) infused hydroponics’ (that is to say that the plant grows in all 3 know grow mediums; air, dirt and water, all at the same time). These techniques have proven to yield several-fold over typical aeroponics, hydroponics or earthbound crops.
Air and Atmosphere: Critical to the super growth of the plants is a very precise weather pattern that fosters and supplies ample growth. The carefully controlled atmosphere is free of pollutants and other plaques that can destroy our beyond organic growing experience. Purified air streams (from our proprietary technology that can even be taken from waste streams from industry or even extreme coal-fired power plants), are combined with CO2 very environmentally, than energy efficiently induced into weather patterns that mimic day and night temperatures, breezes, vapor pressure and humidity levels. The byproduct is pure oxygen released from the healthy plants! Our air systems are pristine devoid of any pollutant and pest.
Water: Our special water is manufactured to maximize the best delivery of our nutrients, oxygen and nitrogen to the plants roots, unparalleled by any known system. Our unique nutrients are bonded molecularly (in our blending technology) to oxygen and nitrogen. After this bonding, we then charge the ‘SuperNute’ (our nickname to the super nutritious cluster) to have immediate use and intake in the plant. This process has no rival in speed, absorption percentage, or overall plant health. This combination of technologies accounts for nearly a 70% increase in plant yield, superior taste and fruit quality. Our water systems use <1% of the amount of water that traditional agriculture uses to produce the same amount of annual production. This customized process of water can be sourced by dehumidifying water from outside air, as long as humidity is above 14%, in locations where culinary water or wells are not available. Some of our farm systems harvest all the needed water from the air, even though the climate outside the farm is the desert.
Electrical Fields: We have developed generators that produce unique electric and magnetic fields, which have a profound effect on the growth rate and vitality of the plants. These fields and frequencies are conducted through the water, and into the soil mediums, and directly into the plant stem. In addition we induce (not directly touching) a field and frequency pattern to the foliage and leaves as well. We have seen as much as 3-10X the growth rate and vitality when under the influence of our electrical fields and frequencies.
Grow Structure: All of these technologies reside in a single grow structure that can best be simplified as its own world. This grow structure allows for maximum plant density and vertical growing. Depending on the type of crop being grown it will be in a vertical rack system (in the case of potatoes or carrots, that need a sufficient and accessible root harvest), or in our Gyro Farms (in the case of produce that the fruit is the plant itself and roots are not a part of the actual harvest, like lettuce). This process exposes the plant to a constant workout to stay erect. This constant exercise produces 5X more growth due to the constant need of supporting nutrients during the workout. In addition, the number of plants is dramatically increased in a multiple layer of plants and density. A typical 10 x 17 x 14 Sq/Ft room in a vertical arrangement will produce the equivalent of 5-15 acres / annually Δ of traditionally grown agriculture. A 7 x 7 x 7 Gyro Garden will produce the equivalent of 1/3-5 acres / annually Δ of traditionally grown agriculture.
Δ The yield equivalent is dependent upon plant crop size and spacing of the plants and the size upon which the crop was harvested.
Sustainability: Our farming technology was build around sustainability and energy efficiencies first. This means that there is no farming operation that competes with our low energy draw or the efficient use of BTU’s. Farms can operate with renewable energy sources, unlike other techniques that consume vast amounts of energy and displace much unneeded heat. Our prototype farm demo in Salt Lake City, Utah incorporates solar weather to generate needed cooling from our proprietary IceBlock technology to cool the air while our radiant heat exchangers cool the water to the ideal grow temperature. Solar energy powers the fans, pumps and lights. Water is recycled, and with dehumidifying the outside air, can replace what leaves the farm in the form of harvested product.
Seeds & Genetics: Only seeds will need to be consumed over and over. We only use non-genetically modified (GMO) or heirloom seeds. These seeds can come from our seed farms, outside sources or from the crops themselves at harvest. Many plants can be cloned and the need for continual seeding is averted. Seeding methods to mass propagate are being implemented in current industry standards. Our current seeding and germination techniques simulate multi-seasonal exposure and we usually have seedlings ready for the grow structure in just hours-days. Custom hybrids have been developed and we are working on new varieties.
Marketing / Advertising / Cross-Promotion
Ra Farms is currently accepting applications for both Non-Exclusive and Exclusive Licenses. Territories contracts and positions are limited.
Financing for our technology is also available and may be backed by a guarantee from the United States Federal Government.
Are you a buyer, distributor or a supplier of organic foods? Ra Farms is currently establishing contracts for specific crops for local, regional, multi-regional and global buyers. If you are interested contact us for more information of how our high-end, beyond organic products can be solution for you.
We also have CSA/RSA models and Co-op options for Community Farms as well.
For more information, contact a Ra Farms affiliate or contact Ra Farms:
Paul Isom
President
801-502-9958
Ra Farms Corporate Offices
3583 S Via Terra Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115
Financing for our technology is also available and may be backed by a guarantee from the United States Federal Government.
Are you a buyer, distributor or a supplier of organic foods? Ra Farms is currently establishing contracts for specific crops for local, regional, multi-regional and global buyers. If you are interested contact us for more information of how our high-end, beyond organic products can be solution for you.
We also have CSA/RSA models and Co-op options for Community Farms as well.
For more information, contact a Ra Farms affiliate or contact Ra Farms:
Paul Isom
President
801-502-9958
Ra Farms Corporate Offices
3583 S Via Terra Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115