iHemp Hour Articles

Financing the Industrial Hemp industry

On this weeks episode of the iHemp Hour we speak with Bob Moore of www.bobmoorefinancing.com in Oklahoma. Bob is an avid fan of the hemp industry and is actively working with companies in the US and Canada. Learn about the unique challenges and what to avoid when...

Homeland Hempcrete

Founded the same year the US Farm Bill legalized the production of industrial hemp, Homeland Hempcrete entered the market utilizing the traditional cast-in-place build method. After years of trial and error, Homeland Hempcrete decided there must be a more effective...

US Hemp Building Association

Jacob Waddell is the Interim Executive Director of the US Hemp Building Association. He has been working with the USHBA for two years. Before this challenge, he has worked for a testing lab, as a musician, as an engineer and program manager in marine and automotive...

Hemp Moving To MRA

Because of recent regulation changes in Michigan with the MRA becoming the Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA), and parts of the industrial hemp regulation being moved from MDARD to the CRA, we have Andrew Brisbo, the Executive Director of the MRA on this week’s iHemp...
Hemp Pioneer, Joe Hickey, Co-Founder & Chairman of Halcyon

Hemp Pioneer, Joe Hickey, Co-Founder & Chairman of Halcyon

Joe brings 28 years of Hemp Industry experience and relationships to Halcyon’s portfolio and acts as spokesperson and corporate relations. In 1992 he reignited the grassroots hemp effort after discovering the 1942 Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association and...

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Susan Barnhardt of SHEMP™ on the iHemp Hour

Susan Barnhardt of SHEMP™ on the iHemp Hour

SHEMP™ is an innovative mix of nature's cleverest renewables – WOOL and FIBER HEMP resulting in a USA-produced worsted textile yarn with unique performance, appearance, and environmental properties. The story behind the development of The SHEMP™ Yarn Company Inc....

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Ackley Hemp Farms on the iHemp Hour

Ackley Hemp Farms on the iHemp Hour

JD Ackley has developed what has become a full-service hemp field services company. Ackley Hemp Farms has 4 farms in co-op with services including laying white mulch, transplant services, flower harvesting with the HHH 700 (one of only 8 in the US for the 2021...

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Greg Dean from The Hemp Plastic Company on the iHemp Hour

Greg Dean from The Hemp Plastic Company on the iHemp Hour

Greg Dean is Chief Commercial and Operations Officer of The Hemp Plastic Company. Greg has spent a lifetime in materials, with the past 25 years in the plastic vertical where he has globally managed Sales and Business Development, Supply Chain, and Operations. He is...

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