Ed Rosenthal, California horticulturist, author, publisher, and Cannabis grower known for his advocacy for the legalization of marijuana use. He served as a columnist for High Times Magazine during the 1980s and 1990s, discusses his best-practices for commercial cultivation. Ed speaks with the GroAdvisor team about the early days of cannabis cultivation, differences in growing large-scale and small-scale, 5 quick-tips for commercial cultivators, and considerations when choosing commercial...

Bob Craig, CEO of PayQwick discusses cannabis banking and treasury management with the GroAdvisor team, your one-stop-shop for the controlled environment agriculture industry. Treasury management (or treasury operations) includes management of an enterprise's holdings, to manage a firm's liquidity and mitigate its operational, financial and reputational risk. Bob Craig is an executive leader in fintech. Keen ability to envision and launch new products in the heavily regulated fintech space...

GroAdvisor speaks with Justin Jacobs, AST Field Tech Lead at Argus Controls. The company is an automated control systems pioneer with over thirty years of leadership and innovation in control technology. Justin has been in his current position for 2 years. As part of his role, he travels to different sites all over North America. He has been working with Argus and Conviron equipment for the past six years. Justin has more than 20 years of low voltage controls experience. He also has more...

Dr. Allison Justice, hemp and cannabis consultant, and owner of The Hemp Mine, a 40-acre hemp farm which produces a wide array of products and breeds validated hemp genetics to the hemp market. Allison brings a wealth of experience, also as the owner of SC Botanicals, a large-scale hemp extraction facility in South Carolina. She's played an integral part of the California Industrial Hemp Advisory Board and SC Farm Bureau advising policy and regulation and previously serving as VP of...

The GroAdvisor team discusses modular grow room designs, including advantages, comparisons versus conventional construction, anecdotes, success stories, and more.

The team at GroAdvisor speaks with Bruce Granger on the Greenhouse & Indoor Cultivation Podcast, to discuss best practices for grow room design. Granger launched Kind Love, one of the highest-rated dispensaries in Colorado as well as a state-of-the-art grow facility and extraction and infusion division. Since then, he has cemented himself as a pioneer and leader in the cannabis industry. The GroAdvisor team and Granger offer their insight and knowledge to cannabis entrepreneurs and...

One of the best things you can do for your cannabis career is to build your social network. Building your cannabis social network is an investment in yourself, your business, and your future. The key to social networking is to put others' needs above your own. As they say, “the currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” Lucky for you, there are many online cannabis business platforms sprouting up all the time. By building your personal brand online and moving your...

Join vertical farming expert Jim Pantaleo and the GroAdvisor team as they discuss best practices for planning and building a commercial vertical farm in 2020. Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers by incorporating controlled-environment agriculture equipment to optimize plant growth. Tune in to learn about: - Reliable year-round production - How to remain unaffected by weather - Better space utilization - Minimizing water usage - Building an...