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 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...
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...
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...
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...
A celebration of farming, industrial AG design and music all done with a vision of environmentalism This guitar’s unique story connects to more than just guitar enthusiasts, also to the way many peoples beliefs are shifting to environmentally conscious...
After years of unrealized expectations, it finally looks as though the hemp industry is on an unstoppable train moving full steam ahead. Entrepreneurs who are keeping up with the latest industry news and eye-popping market trends are certainly well-aware of the...
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...
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...
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...
