Village Farms International
Village Farms International Inc owns and operates intensive agricultural greenhouse facilities in British Columbia and Texas, where it produces, markets and sells tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Pure Sunfarms, is a vertically integrated licensed producer and supplier of cannabis products sold to other licensed providers and provincial governments across Canada and internationally. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Balanced Health, develops and sells, cannabidiol (CBD) based products including ingestible, edible and topical applications. The operating segments of the Company are VF Fresh (Produce), Cannabis Canada, Cannabis U.S., Clean Energy, and Leli . The company makes majority of its revenue from the Produce segment.www.villagefarms.com
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Oct 9, 2026
Todd HarrisonGUEST
... you know, cap- caption my attention, I kind of, uh, I'll circle back to that.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
Um, we still think, you know, Village Farms is uniquely positioned, particularly if we get that EU GMP-
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
Mm-hmm
Todd HarrisonGUEST
... from source mandate, uh, from Germany, which, you know, could come at any time.
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
Yep, really interesting.
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
Uh, cool.
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
I always, I feel like different companies with their backgrounds, obviously, uh, Village Farms having that really strong just growing background, the farmer background is so interesting in terms of how they bring that obviously to their strategy.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
Mike's been doing this 40 years.
Jeremy BerkeHOST
But, you know, there are other Canadian companies that have large, uh, facilities that are, that are either near or at EU GMP certification.
Jeremy BerkeHOST
Uh, you know, um, uh, you know, Village Farms International i-is one that, that could absolutely be a takeover target.
Jeremy BerkeHOST
And if any VFF people are watching, like I'm not saying you're a takeover target, I'm just saying it's logical and rational-
Bryan FieldsGUEST
Watch yourself
Ben LarsonHOST
That's a lot of sixes.
Ben LarsonHOST
Today's guest is Deepak Anand, Vice President of Global Government Affairs at Village Farms International, Inc. We're going to be talking about all things international from the perspective of a world-traveling Canadian.
Ben LarsonHOST
And if you don't know, they're federally legal out there.
Ben LarsonHOST
Hannah Rae, are you ready to go to L.A. this week?
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Anna Rae GrabsteinHOST
He started his career in pharma, became an advocate for patient access, and went on to help build the global cannabis industry.
Anna Rae GrabsteinHOST
He's advised more than 40 cannabis companies plus CPG and tobacco players looking to enter the space and helped build operations in Germany and the UK.
Anna Rae GrabsteinHOST
And three weeks ago, he took his shingle down and went in-house as vice president of government affairs at Village Farms International, a public company that's one of the largest EU GMP certified cannabis cultivators in the world.
Anna Rae GrabsteinHOST
Deepak, welcome to High Spirits.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
Well, you know, it depends on who you talk to.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
Um, right? So like, uh, in some of the, some of the bigger guys that we've spoken to, um, you know, are looking at, um, you know, I mean I'll tell you who, who, who they, who they keep coming back and asking about is Village Farms.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
Uh, and it's, uh, you know, it's always great when, uh, you know, you see a company that I think we, we, we wrote our first research report about them over nine years ago, last Au- this past August.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
Uh, so it's going, gonna be 10 years that we, you know, getting to know this company, to watch them ac- actually, you know, stick to their knitting.
Dan AhrensGUEST
Um, but once again, it is a smaller space.
Dan AhrensGUEST
We, we really like, uh, just a couple names like, uh, Village Farms, High Tide, um-
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
Names
Dan AhrensGUEST
...
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
So thanks for your time, as always.
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
"Wanted to ask Dan's comments on Village Farms in general or where they are today and future potential.
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
Also, anything you'd like to see from them that would make you invest more.
Mackenzie PetersonHOST
Thanks." Um-
Dan AhrensGUEST
Yeah, we think the world of, uh, of Village Farms.
Dan AhrensGUEST
Um, if anybody were to go back to my book that I wrote, Investing in Cannabis, it's, it's an interesting-- I can, uh, pitch that right now because that was written a long time ago, and it takes a pretty long time to write a book.
Dan AhrensGUEST
It's sent through all the editors and major pu- it's a, you know, major publishing house.
Dan AhrensGUEST
They take a little while.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
So forgive me.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
Um, uh, so we saw that surveyor, uh, biggest news in my book, and I've been banging the drum on Village Farms since, you know, it was somehow under...
Todd HarrisonGUEST
When they printed this at $2, everyone was grousing 'cause it was like, I think, 13 cents on the whole.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
I, I said, you know, I said, "This is Christmas in July."
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Todd HarrisonGUEST
... he- the hemp ban I think is, is gonna be meaningful news.
Todd HarrisonGUEST
We can talk about what ha- what we're hearing there is, if you'd like as well.
Noah HammanHOST
I would, but before we jump to that, you know, Fabio had asked here about, um, you know, mentioning you were talking about Village Farms a second ago and, you know, he's wondering if they're not a, a good target like Aurora seems to be with Curaleaf.
Noah HammanHOST
Um, you know, what are your thoughts on either VFF being a, an acquirer or acquiree, um, in the space?
Dan AhrensGUEST
Yep.
MackenzieHOST
Uh, what are your thoughts on Village Farms in the coming quarters?
Dan AhrensGUEST
Love them.
MackenzieHOST
I think they're looking more from a US perspective, so if you're...
McKenzieHOST
... money, attention coming in.
McKenzieHOST
Village Farms obviously was the one that I think people were very focused in [laughs] on, but I think that's meaningful.
McKenzieHOST
You know, what do you make of the Citadel ownership? I feel like that's gotta be Is that positive?
Dan AhrensGUEST
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
McKenzieHOST
Mm-hmm
Dan AhrensGUEST
... and they have multiple silos of different private funds, and they also, um, you know, take their own positions in stocks.
Dan AhrensGUEST
So, um, what we're alluding to here is as of June 30th, institutional ownership in Village Farms, we also heard back in May and June that a, uh, major, there was a major buys in Village Farms, but we didn't know exactly who it was yet.
Dan AhrensGUEST
So now the data's out, when you look at institutional ownership of Village Farms you'll see Citadel number one, you'll see AdvisorShares number two.
Dan AhrensGUEST
Everybody read your stuff.
Dan AhrensGUEST
Um, what are gonna be the requirements in the future for, um, EU GMP, and how does that affect certain companies like Class House and, um, Village Farms, a very good one.
Dan AhrensGUEST
And, um, what is going on between Curaleaf and Aurora, for instance.
Dan AhrensGUEST
So read up on your GMP, people.
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