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Ol Janx Spirit

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15. It's hard to imagine it will. They burned through almost a billion dollars already and...

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #10)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:33 PM

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...appear to have only secured a tiny fraction of that to move forward out of Chapter 11.

Strawberries may have some pricing and profit advantage over lettuce, but you would imagine they would need a similar amount of investment--maybe more--to really get off the ground with it.

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THANK YOU!!! niyad Saturday #1

Strawberries can be very high in pesticides. This helps. multigraincracker Saturday #2

Incredible! PatSeg Saturday #3

DURec leftstreet Saturday #4

Very encouraging! summer_in_TX Saturday #5

It looks like harvesting these berries will be easier and more efficient than the old-fashioned way FakeNoose Saturday #6

Unfortunately they declared bankruptcy, and this technology seems to be really in question. Ol Janx Spirit Saturday #7

Oh, darn! True Dough Saturday #9

It looks like a hard business to be in--not just for them: Ol Janx Spirit Saturday #12

We need more of this for lettuce. twodogsbarking Saturday #8

That company went bankrupt trying it with lettuce. See reply 10. highplainsdem Saturday #11

That company went bankrupt in California trying to grow lettuce that way. Too early to tell if it highplainsdem Saturday #10

It's hard to imagine it will. They burned through almost a billion dollars already and... Ol Janx Spirit Saturday #15

I thought that Vance was an investor. It turns out that... S/V Loner Saturday #13

Wow! Just wow. Cynical me is worried that "regulations" pushed by big corporate ag lobbies may kill this incredible artemisia1 Saturday #14

I wonder what they taste like. Most likely more straw than berry. GoneOffShore Saturday #16