Marijuana Business Magazine - January 2017

average trim ratios, which tell growers exactly how much yield is generated by a specific strain or phenotype. TCD shares that information with growers so they can reallocate resources for higher-yield strains for future grows. The receipts also allow floor managers to keep real-time tabs on trimmers’ progress and individual bin ratios, which all help to standardize trimming. If one trimmer yields a high ratio of a particular strain, trim leads can audit other trimmers’ techniques to yield similar ratios. Trim trainers also monitor operations to be sure trimmers are using the most efficient practices – rotating by the stem while trimming, for example. Dialing in the Drying Honing the strategy for its drying operations for multiple clients was “a whole new beast,” Pelzner said. It was a challenge figuring out how to get the marijuana from farms to the warehouse without over-handling the product. As a solution, the team retrofitted cargo vans and 20-foot trailers with a specialty racking system. Staffers take the racks to the farms, rack the product there and then load it into the trailers. They drive it back to the ware- house and move the racks directly into drying crates. The process minimizes virtually all touching of the plant once it’s racked – which reduces degrada- tion and breakage of trichomes. MULTIPOND America Inc. | 2301 Hutson Road | Green Bay, WI 54303 | 920-490-8249 sales@multipondamerica.com | www.multipond.com Proven solutions to accurately weigh 1 gram target weights or m more. Backed with over 70 years of weighing experience, MULTIPOND provides a reputable solution within the packaging industry offering the most reliable and accurate radial combination scales. Edible Gummies ? Sticky or sugar sanded we can weigh those too. 1 GRAM FILLS AUTOMATED WEIGHING ALL MADE POSSIBLE WITH MULTIPOND Advanced Weighing Technologies German Engineered & Manufactured The Cannabis Distribution Company’s 40,000 square-foot storage facility in Portland, Oregon, was nearly at capacity as of last fall. Photo courtesy of TCD Co. 86 • Marijuana Business Magazine • January 2018