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Three vertical farms just turned a profit

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read
All three of them, not just the flagship. That is the part that has never happened before.͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ 
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Vol. 7  ·  No. 34  ·  Week of August 14 – 20, 2026  ·  microgreensworld.com
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Industry
A vertical farming company just said all three of its farms are profitable
Single-site profitability has happened before in this industry, and it has never once meant the model survived being copied.
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Market Rules
A producers-only market is being asked to prove the rule still means something
Also in this week's full issue: the nutrient multiple you should stop repeating, a Cebu startup wiring growers straight into buyers, Hyderabad's home-growing boom five years on, a market event a state had to publicly disown, an Iowa market retiring its $5 token, and a fifth grader feeding 480 classmates.
Plus six action items pulled straight from this week's research.
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Hi! I'm D. Andrew Neves

 Editor-in-Chief, Microgreens World, “The Best Information: Tray Tested, Science Backed" Co-Founder of JPure Farms, an earlystartup indoor microgreens operation in Atlanta, Georgia Author of more than 10 books, including "Children of the Soil: How To Grow Nutritious Microgreens At Home in Nine Days" Founder and Managing Editor of MBS Publishing, "Science Writing for the Rest of Us"  Certified Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and over 35 years of writing and researching health and nutrition. Visit my website, Microgreens World, www.microgreensworld.com

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