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I think you should take this idea into 2nd/3rd order effects of continuous, controlled food growth that isn't hampered by weather or transportation costs.

Immediate second order effect would be the obsolescence of grain futures, you don't need to hedge against a bad harvest. You probably also wouldn't need to go into debt to buy enough seed to plant each season.

Another would be a more elastic supply chain without the need for storage/buffering, which we've seen drastically reduce prices and increase production for all sorts of widgets using just-in-time manufacturing. If you can scale up/down wheat production pretty reliably with only 70-80 days forecasting, you can eliminate a lot of the inefficiencies of the food supply chain.

Sidenote, a literal vertically integrated bakery would be a sight to behold



You’d need to think of them less, but disasters that destroy the building or disrupt operations (fires, earthquakes, floods, etc.) still happen so there’s need to be some redundancy and hedging.




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