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2024 Annual Meeting & Hempies Awards

Date: Saturday December 7thTime: 4 pm until 8 pmLocation: Nuthouse Sports Grill 420 East Michigan Ave, Lansing Come and enjoy fellowship and hear about iHemp Michigan’s accomplishments for 2024 and what is planned for 2025 as we move Industrial Hemp forward in...

Phytoremediation of soil with Dr. Lesley Putman of Northern Michigan University.

Professor Lesley Putman of Northern Michigan University, Department of Chemistry. Her research focuses on phytoremediation, utilizing plants to clean up the environment. When it became legal for her at the university to conduct research with hemp, she decided to...

Hunter Buffington on iHemp Hour

Join us Thursday, May 25th at 5 PM for the iHemp Hour. We catch up with Hunter Buffington. We last spoke with Hunter in her role as director of the Hemp Feed Coalition. Hunter now serves as the director of Agriculture Policy Solutions. Navigating policy and working...

European Hemp Fiber and Grain Seeds

Hana Gabrielová and Robin Destiche of KonopiUS will join us this week. Hana Gabrielová is a 20-year veteran within the hemp industry. In 2010 she founded Hempoint in Europe. Hempoint is involved in many parts of the supply chain – planting seed distribution, farming,...
Homeland Hempcrete

Homeland Hempcrete

Founded the same year the US Farm Bill legalized the production of industrial hemp, Homeland Hempcrete entered the...

US Hemp Building Association

US Hemp Building Association

Jacob Waddell is the Interim Executive Director of the US Hemp Building Association. He has been working with the...

Hemp Moving To MRA

Hemp Moving To MRA

Because of recent regulation changes in Michigan with the MRA becoming the Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA), and parts...

History of Lakeland Hemp

History of Lakeland Hemp

Dennis Dean, a fifth-generation farmer, is joined by his wife, Barb, and son, Eric, to raise cherries and hemp on their 120 acres. The original portion of the farm was homesteaded by Dennis’s great, great, great grandfather and has been passed down through each new...

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Talking Hemp Products at Cannabis Law Conference

Talking Hemp Products at Cannabis Law Conference

Dave Crabill will share updates on hemp products at the 6th Annual Cannabis Law Conference at Soaring Eagle Casino. Dave's role is to share information about the many hemp products being produced currently and the industries that will be impacted by hemp....

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Ways to Brand your Product and Market in the Hemp Industry

Ways to Brand your Product and Market in the Hemp Industry

Jeff Cole is the founder of the U.S. Hemp Brokerage LLC based in the Boulder area of Colorado. U.S. Hemp Brokerage LLC (USHB) has been established to provide hemp farmers, processors and manufacturers of industrial hemp materials and products with high-quality...

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Delta 8 Compounds and H.B. 4517

Delta 8 Compounds and H.B. 4517

iHemp Michigan recently became aware of a state legislative effort to curb the unregulated availability of hemp-derived products containing Delta 8 compounds. This bill package, led by House Bill 4517, has now received its first hearing May 18 in the House Committee...

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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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Earth Day 2021

Earth Day 2021

The last time we gathered physically on Earth Day we paid for our Industrial Hemp Growers Licenses for the first time! Less paperwork this year! It was great to see the members who made it out to Mid Michigan Hemp Supply in Midland. Members came from all points in...

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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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