b'Like Pick, Baute also comes from a seed industry family. His dad founded corn seed company Maizex Seeds. After a stint with Monsanto as a trait geneticist, Baute moved to the cannabis space in order to work in a crop whose genetic secrets research-ers are only beginning to unravel.I was working in California when it was legalized there. I ate lunch with plant breeders every day, and so many of us were talking about the research they wanted to do in cannabis. Its decades behind every other crop. Thats what made me think, I should really think about cannabis as my next career.A Second Set of HandsJim Brandle served as chief executive officer for Ontarios Vineland Research and Innovation Centre for over a decade, overseeing research projects on tomato and other horticultural crops. The promise held by cannabis lured him into the next phase of his career. He now serves as vice-president of plant performance with Ontario-based Canopy Growth Corporation.I have 35 years of experience in the agricultural industry. When I first joined Canopy Growth in 2018 there were very few people that had specific experience with cannabis agricultural R&D, including breeding and crop protection. It felt like a massive opportunity to take the skills I had accumulated over the course of my career and apply them to cannabis, he says.Legal cannabis agriculture is still new and theres so much room for growth when it comes to advancing plant performance,According to Jim Brandle, the promise held by cannabis lured him THC yield and better sensory experience. into the next phase of his career. 56/ SEEDWORLD.COMOCTOBER 2021'