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North Dakota’s First Hemp Testing Laboratories
Leveraging her deep industry knowledge of Federal regulations, testing operations, and software innovation, Kia Mikesh helped establish Adams Independent Testing as one of the first hemp testing laboratories in the state of North Dakota. Under her guidance, AIT has...
The ABCs of CBD
Shira Adler — called the “voice of our time” is a highly-vetted speaker, educator, and renowned author of “The ABCs of CBD: The Essential Guide” (hailed as the “industry bible” and which has sold more than 15,000 copies). Shira is a media wellness personality and an...
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...
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...
Updates on the policy and regulation | iHemp Hour ft Molly Mott of MDARD
Molly Mott is the industrial hemp program specialist with Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD). She manages the State’s hemp program, which is housed in MDARD’s Pesticide and Plant Pest Management Division, Plant Health section, and ensures...
Producing Quality CBD Products to Customers Worldwide | iHemp Hour ft Jeff Gallagher
After hemp supplements helped turn Jeff Gallagher’s life around, he made it his personal mission to help at least five people a month discover the benefits of hemp. He started MHR Brands in early 2013. Made by Hemp was born shortly after. Since 2013, Made by Hemp has...
Broadcasting live from the 3rd Annual Southern Hemp Expo in Raleigh, North Carolina
This is the 3rd Annual Southern Hemp Expo (SHE3) — and SHE3 starts with FARMERS! There will be ideas shared on how to RETHINK Hemp with genetics, soil amendments, and the right technology and equipment to streamline operations. "Bringing balance back to Mother Earth!"...
Accelerating the Growth of the CBD Market
With 25 years of experience in multiple industries, Chris has led in a variety of roles in manufacturing, development and logistics for multiple industries. Chris is formally trained as a Packaging Engineer from Michigan State University as well as a Master’s of...
Product Innovation in the Hemp Industry
Tony Lupo, Dr. Jesse Miller and Nate Banner of NEOGEN discuss product innovation efforts to support the hemp industry. NEOGEN is a long-standing company (headquartered in Lansing, Michigan) focused on supporting agriculture industries through rapid diagnostics and...
Synergizing a Unique Hemp Extract
Ron Fazio is a former board-certified forensic scientist with over 20 years of controlled substance experience. Hemp Synergistics has developed a proprietary process to produce a unique hemp extract. Bio-Dri™ is a patent-pending novel broad-spectrum hemp powder with...
Building a Sustainable Hemp Supply Chain | with Annie Rouse of Anavii Market
Annie Rouse is a dedicated hemp entrepreneur, educator and activist who has spent the last 10 years building a sustainable supply chain for hemp products through her manufacturing and formulations entity, OP Innovates, and her suite of branded products including...
Rethinking Hemp with Genetics
The Southern Hemp Expo (“SHE”) is scheduled for Sept. 2 – 4, 2021 at the Raleigh Convention Center, 500 South Salisbury Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. SHE starts with FARMERS! They will share ideas on how to RETHINK Hemp with genetics, soil amendments, and the...
The Value of U.S. Hemp Authority Certification
FoodChain ID is the exclusive certifying body for the U.S. Hemp Authority’s™ certification program. As FCID’s, Executive Director of Sales and Marketing for the CBD, Hemp and Dietary Supplement Markets, Marcia's responsibilities include growing other services and...
Erica Halverson talks about how her hemp paper business grew along with her quest to save the planet — one plant at a time!
Erica Halverson started her career path in retail and moved into a corporate structure, marking her way as a Marketing, Sales, Branding and CPG expert until she decided to get some smaller table experience under her belt and moved to Silicon Valley to join the Startup...
Scheril Murray Powell, Esq. talks about the importance of FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) compliance in your hiring process as you grow your hemp business.
Scheril Murray Powell, Esq. is a Business Development Manager for Creative Services in their Cannabis Division. She is also an Agricultural, Cannabis, and Dietary Supplement Attorney at Doumar, Allsworth, Laystrom, Voigt, Adair, and Dishowitz LLP. She is also the...
Seth Boone of PanXchange Talks Hemp and Animal Feed Markets
Seth Boone is PanXchange's VP of Business Development and head of hemp markets. Raised on a ranch in West Texas, he offers a background beginning in production agriculture before continuing his career merchandising feed grains and other agricultural commodities for...
Dr. Chris Luettgen of Georgia Tech talks about Applications of Hemp Biomass in Paper, Paper Board, NonWovens and Molded Fiber
Chris Luettgen is the Associate Director of Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) of Georgia Institute of Technology. His Research focuses on Biobased Materials, Biochemicals, Biorefining, Biotechnology, Pulp Paper Packaging & Tissue, Sustainable Manufacturing and...
Rachel Berry, CEO of Illinois Hemp Grower’s Association, Secretary of the US Hemp Building Association, Eric McKee, Founder & CEO of Wndr and Founder of the US Hemp Building Association & Director of Strategic Growth and Jeffrey Cole, Owner & Founder of US Hemp Brokerage LLC
Rachel Berry is a first-generation farmer, which includes regenerative practices, vegetables, hemp fiber and grain. She is passionate about small farms/businesses, conservation, local food systems and economy along with hemp education. Rachel is a Board Member of the...
Joe & Victoria Veldon from Seven Leaf Genetics on the iHemp Hour
Joe & Victoria Veldon are Cannabis experts, award winning cultivators and long-time breeders for both the Medical and Recreational marijuana markets in Oregon and the emerging hemp markets throughout the rest of the nation. Combining their degrees in plant and...
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...
Hemp Policy and Regulation with Russell Laird of the Hemp Leaders Coalition
Russell Laird has decades of experience working with the federal government. He has managed issue portfolios on and off of Capitol Hill for a variety of industry interests, including utility finance, trucking, and consumer packaged goods. He has managed his own...
Joe Thiel of Innovate Marquette SmartZone, Hemp Products in Outdoor Recreation Industry
Joe Thiel (“Teal”) is the CEO of Innovate Marquette SmartZone and Executive Director of Invent@nmu. He is a serial entrepreneur and manages and operates every aspect of business from start to scale. Innovate Marquette SmartZone is creating a world-class...
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....
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...
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...
iHemp Hour is on the road for Earth Day, live from Mid Michigan Hemp Supply in Midland
Earth Day 2019 marked the beginning of growing hemp in Michigan. About 50 iHemp Michigan members were the first to receive their grower and processor handler licenses. 2020, well, there was less going. For Earth Day 2021, we wanted to celebrate. We still must maintain...
Tess Bennett, Editor of Hemp Grower Magazine, shares her insight about the hemp industry on the iHemp Hour
Theresa ("Tess") Bennett, Editor of Hemp Grower magazine. Tess is responsible for driving the editorial direction and running the daily operations of the monthly print magazine, under the leadership of Editorial Director Noelle Skodzinski. She also works with Digital...
Bruce Dietzen, Founder, Carbon Negative Fiber, Renew Sports Cars joins the iHemp Hour
Renew Design (parent of Renew Sports Cars) pursues Henry Ford’s vision of a world where everything possible is made from carbon neutral or negative plant materials… from the cars we drive, to the buildings we live in, to the “meat” we eat. For more information about...
Roger Tambay of FILMORGANIC and James DeDecker, PhD of MSU joins us on the iHemp Hour
Roger Tambay, Co-Founder and Co-President of FILMORGANIC will talk about their biodegradable mulch. FILMORGANIC mulch film is a 3rd-party certified compostable-biodegradable mulch film. After harvest, it is disked into the soil. A few months after disking,...
Kehrt Reyher of HempToday®️ provides global hemp industry news on the iHemp Hour
Kehrt Reyher is founder of HempToday®, and co-founder of the Poland-based Nakło Foundation, which supports environmental protection, entrepreneurship and green industry thought leadership globally; and historical preservation, economic development and tourism at the...
Melissa Marsal will share how West Town Bank & Trust can Help People in the Hemp Industry
Melissa is the Chief Operating Officer of West Town Bank & Trust and has been with the Bank for over a decade. In addition to overseeing all aspects of Operations, she’s responsible for helping the Bank build a program uniquely tailored to the challenges of...
Sean Piccirilli and Gordy Johncock from Cutting Edge Solutions®️ on the iHemp Hour
Cutting Edge Solutions® opened its factory in Santa Rosa, California in 2001. They manufacture premium fertilizers and invigorating supplements for plants as well as source the cleanest inputs, and quality evaluate each batch in its laboratory. The result is a...
Cole Gibbs from Dama Distributing on the iHemp Hour
After seeing all of the single-use plastic waste being created by the Cannabis and Hemp industries, with no solution in sight, Cole Gibbs founded Dama Distributing to pioneer the development of sustainable hemp plastic and compliant packaging solutions for the...
Jen Nelson from Mid Michigan Hemp Supply and Jeff Kostuik from Hemp Genetics International Talk All-Things-Hemp on the iHemp Hour
Jen Nelson is a fervid female hemp industry leader in Michigan, who isn’t new to the value of the hemp plant and its uses. Her dream and passion as a child – and still today – are to help heal the planet and its people. With over 12+ years in the marijuana industry...
Terry Moran of International Hemp talks about Polish Grain and Fiber Varieties on the iHemp Hour
Terry Moran is VP of Operations and Production for International Hemp, the certified seed provider for the high yielding Polish grain and fiber varieties Henola and Bialobrzeskie. He previously spent three years in the CO Hemp Regulatory Program and is a Certified...
Ben Williams of Highway Vodka, Texas’ First Hemp-Based Vodka and the First Black-Owned Distillery in Texas
Highway Vodka launched in Houston, Texas, in February 2019. It is the first hemp-based vodka in Texas and the first fully Black-owned distillery in Texas. Co-founders Ben Williams and Wendell Robbins III spent nearly eight years perfecting the product. Close friends...
Dr. Fabio Rodi and Cristina Cecchetti of Icon Processors Discusses the Wellness Benefits of All-Natural Plant Derivatives
Icon Processors was founded by Dr. Fabio Rodi after years of first-hand experience in witnessing the wellness benefits of all-natural plant derivatives, in particular CBD from hemp. Free from many of the side effects of common pharmaceuticals, CBD and other...
Jordan Hinshaw from GreenTek Planet talks Hemptensils™ and other Hemp containers on the iHemp Hour
"Everyday, we acknowledge the Bigger Picture. 15% of all Carbon Emissions and 10+ Million tons of waste are produced per year from petroleum plastics, much of which ends up in the ocean. At this rate, a giant, Godzilla-like Plastic Monster is destined to come to shore...
“Creating a Sustainable World with the Comeback Crop” – All Things Midwest iHemp Expo on this week’s iHemp Hour
Join Dave, Mike and Blain as they share what's in store at this year's Expo on the iHemp Hour. Over 30 speakers from industry, government and academia and 20 hours of content in the Viridis Labs Auditorium and iHemp Michigan Auditorium. We were also joined by Mark...
Jody McGinness from the Hemp Industries Association wants to make your experience in the hemp industry as profitable and problem-free as possible
Jody McGinness will discuss HIA's mission on today's iHemp Hour. The mission of the Hemp Industries Association is to advance the hemp economy and educate the market for the benefit of our members, the public, and the planet. The HIA and HIA Members: Educate the...
Jamie Campbell Petty, Executive Director of the Midwest Hemp Council discusses gaps in supply chain, smokable hemp and farmer-friendly regs
We have our good friend Jamie Campbell Petty, the Executive Director of the Midwest Hemp Council on this week's iHemp Hour! Midwest Hemp Council's mission is to act as a credible information center, a trusted policy advocate and a dedicated trade organization for the...
Gregoire Michaud and Todd Welch of Viridis Labs discuss ways to collaborate to further education and best practices in the industrial hemp industry
On this iHemp Hour, we are discussing the need to educate both legislation and the marketplace about hemp and hemp products. Plus, we need sets of best practices to establish trust and maintain safety. Our guests, Gregoire Michaud and Todd Welch of Viridis Labs are...
Jeremy Huffman and Dr. Adam Ingrao of HI Hemp Company discuss hemp farmers, insects in CBD, Veterans in agriculture and barriers to entry in hemp
"We are a 'Women Led, Veteran Owned, Michigan Grown' CBD Hemp Company that was founded by our two families: the Huffmans and Ingraos. We are bringing science and sustainability to our regenerative farms, with Dr. Ingrao conducting the first in-depth study of the...
Dana Mosman, CEO and Co-Founder of Triminator Discusses Hemp Processing Equipment
Dana is the co-founder and CEO of Triminator, the global leader in cannabis and hemp processing equipment. Founded in 2010, Triminator designs and manufactures equipment to streamline the harvesting process for farmers big and small. Dana grew up in Grass Valley, CA,...
Lance and Denise Lamphier discuss using hemp as a performance food
Performance nutrition for our nation’s warrior athletes. Hemp is great source for Omega-3 & Omega-6. With over 25 years of experience, Lance & Denise Lamphier provide insight into this super-food.
Greg Wilson of Hempwood discusses hemp as a sustainable wood substitute on the iHemp Hour
The idea of using hemp as a sustainable wood substitute was inspired by the experiences of the founder, Greg Wilson, while he was working for a bamboo flooring company years ago. Since then, Greg and his development team have worked tirelessly adapting the process of...
Hemp Decorticating by Canna Systems on the iHemp Hour
Dave Greer of Canna Systems shows off their R-2 decorticator and plans for a strategic alliance. iHemp Michigan's mission is to educate, inform and promote the research, development, and cultivation of industrial hemp in Michigan. iHemp Michigan advocates for wellness...
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...