https://www.cnet.com/news/marijuana-growers-wrestle-with-cannabis-high-tech-industrial-future/

Some growers will continue tending plants by hand and try to preserve natural traditions for a boutique marijuana market. But for the mainstream, the future lies with technologies like genetic testing, robotic harvesting, crop data analysis and even yeast-based manufacturing, experts at the New West Summit marijuana conference in Oakland said.

"Boutique is always going to have a place, but it's not the fast track to get cannabinoids to the mass market. To get to that we have to do more industrialization," said Michael Key, chief executive officer of Impello Biosciences, which sells biological products to help marijuana growers. "A lot of the market now is trying to use boutique practices, trying to scale up, and realizing that's not practical."