{"podcast":{"title":"The Cannabis Accounting Podcast","slug":"the-cannabis-accounting-podcast-1164143","podcast_index_feed_id":1164143,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/97e26c0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://dopecfo.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/1492624/1492624-1695945065477-3e0e301054cf7.jpg","author":"DOPE CFO","episode_count":213,"summary":"The Cannabis Accounting Podcast discusses the ins and outs of cannabis/cbd/hemp accounting. Topics include 280E, chart of accounts, starting & growing your own firm, overcoming software challenges, and more! Looking to get into cannabis accounting? To learn more visit dopecfo.com.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cannabis-accounting-podcast-1164143"},"episode":{"title":"EP 206: The Real Cost of Running a Small Cannabis Farm (Two Operators Get Honest)","slug":"ep-206-the-real-cost-of-running-a-small-cannabis-farm-two-operators-get-honest","published_at":"2026-04-29T13:45:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cannabis-accounting-podcast-1164143/ep-206-the-real-cost-of-running-a-small-cannabis-farm-two-operators-get-honest","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cannabis-accounting-podcast-1164143","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dopecfo/episodes/EP-206-The-Real-Cost-of-Running-a-Small-Cannabis-Farm-Two-Operators-Get-Honest-e3il3lb","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/97e26c0/podcast/play/119229547/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-29%2F423120440-44100-2-8ffb2aed7c93b.m4a","summary":"In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Amanda Metzler, owner-operator of Bigsby Farms in Oregon, and Matt Kennicott, Executive Director of the Cannabis Association of New Mexico. Amanda has one simple belief — if you don't control your costs, the market will control you. Matt knows another truth — bad policy kills more businesses than bad operators. Amanda has been farming since 2016 and built the largest solar installation on any farm in Oregon. Matt runs a micro-cultivation farm and leads the Cannabis Association of New Mexico. They have both seen the industry go from gold rush to grown-up business. And they keep seeing the same mistakes destroy farms over and over again. They talk about: 🚨 The border seizure problem nobody warns you about: Border Patrol has seized over $1M in legal cannabis at New Mexico checkpoints. Operators now vacuum seal and wipe down product like smugglers just to move inventory they're legally allowed to sell. 💸 Why consignment killed Oregon farmers: One farm started giving product to wholesalers on consignment and the whole state copied them. Now farmers front all the money and get paid last — if they get paid at all. ⚡ Amanda's $125K solar investment that changed everything: She powers her entire seed-to-sale operation for under $200 a month with just two people and only grows what's already sold. The days of growing all the weed and asking "will you buy my weed?" are over. 📦 The packaging war and child-attractive labeling fight: New Mexico proposed forcing brands into plain black-and-white packaging with sans-serif font "to protect kids." Matt built a public education campaign over one weekend that got the state health department and poison control center on board instead. 📉…","meta_description":"In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Amanda Metzler, owner-operator of Bigsby Farms in Oregon, and Matt Ke…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2883,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-cannabis-accounting-podcast-1164143/episodes/ep-206-the-real-cost-of-running-a-small-cannabis-farm-two-operators-get-honest/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cannabis-accounting-podcast-1164143/ep-206-the-real-cost-of-running-a-small-cannabis-farm-two-operators-get-honest.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}