Jody has worked for membership nonprofits for more than 20 years, helping organizations to transform in order to...
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Scott Colville Crop Insurance
Scott Colville Crop Insurance’s mission is the same today as when Jim Colville started back in 1967: To help farmers...
Creating a Reliable Supply Chain of Carbon-Negative Hemp Materials
Heartland Industries is a biotech company that engineers hemp fibers as additives to plastics. Heartland’s hemp...
Tom Dermody of PanXchange on the iHemp Hour
Tom is a hemp industry veteran with a specialty in non- and for-profit program development. These experiences have made him keenly aware and a recognized thought leader of the hemp market's inter-workings. Tom leads industrial (grain and fiber) coverage on behalf of...
Gina Alessandri & Nathan Kark with an Update on Regulation on the iHemp Hour
As we move into the USDA rules starting December 1st, we have new expenses and risks associated to cultivating industrial hemp. Get an update on how Michigan revised their rules to conform with the USDA rules.
Craig VanBuren from Michigan’s Geagley Lab on the iHemp Hour
Laboratory Division Director, Craig VanBuren, shares his insight on the industrial hemp harvest for 2020. What went hot and did not! Also, we get a look into the lab and their testing process. We begin the show with updates and hemp news. Craig VanBuren interview...
Hunter Buffington of the Hemp Feed Coalition on the iHemp Hour
Hunter Buffington of the Hemp Feed Coalition talks about the research into hemp grain as a nutritional food source. Hemp grain is high in Omega 3, 6 and 9 as well as protein. The hemp cake created by pressing hemp seed oil, as well as the shells from hemp heart...
Gary Schuler of GTF Solutions and Blain Becktold Talk Grain and Fiber Markets on the iHemp Hour
Gary Schuler of GTF Solutions shares an update on market developments for hemp seed cake research by food industry and potential markets. Our own Blain Becktold shares his experiences as he builds out a hemp seed oil product line and begins production of animal...
New Age Laboratories on iHemp Hour
As we continue our education on how to cultivate the best industrial hemp crops we get a bit geeky with the science at times. Scott Wall of NEWAGE Labs educates us sap analysis testing to determine nutrient uptake, soil health and optimized yeild.
James DeDecker of MSU on iHemp Hour
As we work through the second year of growing hemp it is important to collect data to continue building on our knowledge base and optimize yield.  "You can't manage what you can't measure," Peter Drucker We will talk about current progress on his many varieties in...
Michigan’s Industrial Hemp Program Director on the iHemp Hour
Gina Alessandri has lead the Industrial Hemp Program in Michigan since the passing of the 2018 US Farm Bill. Her commitment to the needs of farmers has been evident and consistent. On today's show we discuss the Senate Bill 850 which is designed to conform with the...
US Hemp Certification & Transparency in Supply Chain
US Hemp Authority and Signakey on the iHemp Hour.