Maybe we get a great run in growing weather and average to poor growers continue to pull off good harvests of decent quality herb. Last time I saw a bad weather year only the better growers held up OK and a lot suffered. Get on your game because it will always pay dividends good year or not.
If the weather stays the way it has the past few years in Cali only gonna make it more difficult for those indoors. I have some indoor grower friends and really hurting right now. The game has really changed.
If outdoor can go big by the acre in Cali what you'll see are rows of plants with fertigation, machine processing, etc. Some practices I see many use now won't be cost effective on a large scale. No more smartpots, teas, etc. They'll just work with native soil and build it from there. There's agronomists out there chomping at the bit to see this change happen. Quality won't suffer if done right and probably better than a lot of what people are currently doing as they bring their experience and science into play. We'll see.
I've moved on to getting involved with people selling the picks and shovels and gotten away from gold mining.
Hello all,
I would like to mention that industrial scale agriculture has left me wanting...what first comes to mind are tomatoes (es cannabis is not tomatoes), We get vegies and fruit in the summer from local growers that are large scale. While the produce is good, it does not compare to the tomatoes I grow or from the weekly small scale farmers market at the park.
I believe it is because of organic practices and personal attention that can not be duplicated large scale. IMO.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4060
If this is a truism then how can big ag do better than what it is doing now? Now to mention GMO which you know is going to occur at some point...its only smart business?
Still, I worry not.
Picks and shovels....Mr. Clemens was indeed a wish man. While I may have a palpable indifference to big ag, I have no such disinterest in money. Ancillary operations have great potential as well. I am thinking about lab analysis operations as a possible avenue for investment. particularly in the onset on legalization.
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