Fungnificent

I'm an extraction tech with over 7 yrs in the industry. The head of the R&D department at my company has a doctorate in chemistry, and has never touched the plant.

They're currently burning up kilo upon kilo of flower we cultivate at our facility to answer a very dumb question (that was answered back in the 70s).

They ignore all the advice I give, and when they Do listen, they take credit for it at corporate.

What should I do?

What should the industry in general do about the rampant ineptitude at the c-class level in this industry?

What? The avg cogs for flower is $2.5, growers and processors, in general, are doing just fine financially.

I don't know if I can stick with it. I've already nuked my professional microbiology career by taking these cannabis jobs (no decent lab will hire someone with manufacture of federally illegal drugs on their cv, I've been trying).

I'm with you, but the question he's trying to answer is "can we put terpenes back into a broken trichome".

It's a tad embaressing for anyone that grasps basic physics. Worse so after I sent him more than a few example papers from the 70s on the subject.

Honestly I'll be leaving the industry till things sort themselves out, even if I can't find a home back in a microbiology lab.

Good luck! 👍

It's practically an insta-boot if you talk about leaving product in the plant at the MSO I worked with.

The culture itself needs to change before actual work can be done in the field, imo, but either way, sincerely, good luck, and thank you for entertaining me!

How do you define productivity?

For example- with CO2, you can get a rather complete extraction far more efficiently (processing time) than ifnyou were to shoot for a cleaner sub critical run. The caveat is that you add up to a week of post-processing labor for a super critical run due to all the excess undesirables that now need to be filtered out. (Assuming you're shooting for a 97%+ supercrit pull)