Isnt that why were all here in the first place? To increase the bottom line?
Clearly some ppl are here to troll, I get it.
Thats y this is needed now more than ever because we cant fight all the trolls alone.
Farmers barely make ANY profit compared to cannabis numbers. Thats why the co-op model is so integral to farming. The industry wouldnt survive as we know it without the co-op. It would be monsanto everything and brand x this and that
Very sound assessment. In terms of this first test, you’re right. It’s reading comprehension. If I had a company operating in this space, I would spiff my staff to pass this test. Do you know how many Canva-jockies in marketing departments all over this industry couldn’t begin to pass this? LOTS!
I would want my receptionist, bookkeeper, warehouse manager and investor to pass this. “At CatCo, our staff from the warehouse to the board room can pass the test.”
TLDR
Stop writing novellas over my covid vaxx induced sarcasm
Its the first of many such handbooks, and is free to download, read, and redistribute.
The idea was $50 for the 101 test, then progressively cheaper as the material and test increase in difficulty, with each one building on the previous. You’d have to pass the 101 to take the 201, etc.
All of the handbooks and information we put out will always be free and accessible regardless of whether you choose to take the test.
The team is taking notes from the criticisms here
I totally get it!
As soon as I saw the handbook I forwarded the link to our young marketing guy and one of our young welder/fabricators who don’t know the cannabis industry. They have an intense desire to learn and ask me questions every day (which I don’t mind answering) and my first thought was “They would love this and reading it would allow them to speak competently with any potential customer/client”
My original post was spoken from the point of view of the experienced industry professional, but I 100% see the value to entry level folks.
@sidco_cat mentioned you might come out to Marcels tomorrow. Don’t let our disagreements here dissuade you from attending a unique GLG meetup 
When have I ever disagreed with you?
If anything I’m just flirting 
@anon16547145 I hope that didn’t sound snarky. Please come tomorrow. We share too much in common to be separated. I’ve got hugs for you
Yes! That’s it!
I’d love to but I won’t be in the euge till Tuesday
Have fun and wear safety glasses so you don’t go blind
To me this is much like a chicken and egg problem. I think we’re all interested in increasing the bottom line but the part that gets left unsaid is that you demonstrate increased value first, then the money comes as a result of that if and only if you’ve adequately demonstrated increased value.
Now feel free to debate how to “adequately” demonstrate increased value.
Not true lol
Organic growing methods (and certifications) can be used as a marketing point, but to say it’s no different than conventional farming makes you sound ignorant lol
What’s happening tomorrow?
GLG Art Coin pull at Marcels Starship in Eugene. Starts at 7pm. Txt me for details if you wanna go
What’s an art coin pull?
Probably that glg millefiori
The purpose of a 3rd party certification is to provide not only a certification but to provide a degree of audit readiness when/if the FDA ever comes knocking. You’re paying more for people to come extensively audit your manufacturing processes and quality management system and to identify potential audit observations that the FDA would have.
So, as you’ve mentioned the CFR gives a basic outline of what is expected and doesn’t tell you how to implement the processes or the QMS. The idea is you have a GMP compliant operation with manufacturing, quality, etc in place and that the 3rd party cert seeks to validate your processes and quality management.
Also, customers are probably more apt to buy a GMP certified product than one with no certification.
Definitely not useless.
$0.02
I gave a specific example. In my example nothing changed but the marketing. Its the same grass year after year. To say im growing the grass organically is putting a spit shine on a turd. Its still grass and im not changing anything to grow it organically.
If you grow using organic inputs and get the certification thats all fine and good. But organic isnt the way you grow, just like glgc isnt the way you extract. Its a certification on your extracting system or process or whatever it is. If youre not using glgc approved media or filter plates or whatever, prv’s etc you will have to start using them.
Coming out with glgc and a bunch of labs getting certified doesnt mean magically were all doing the same thing, its just another logo to slap on your goods. Everybody is still doing it their own way and thats what makes a certification cool, because its an add on to your existing operation like ISO or GMP, hopefully it works better than these but only time will tell.
It shouldnt be a bar so high that it requires you have to change everything youre doing or it wont make sense on the bottom line and it will be slow to adopt or die out.
So…
I hate to break it to you
But
Organic practices are the conventional practices of farming that have been used for thousands of years
It is Only in the last 150 years or so that the concept of organic has had be enforced because people started fucking with the food.