Casey has spent many years researching hemp for CBD and has used it to help alleviate pain from past injuries. The effectiveness of the CBD Casey used for his pain was so positive that he wanted to share this with others so that they could avoid the opiate and pain killer route. Now Casey has his own CBD farm where he grows, tests and provides high quality products to his customers. In addition, Casey opened a processing facility in Michigan to fill the void of processing for farmers. The company is continuing to grow and a new processing facility is being set up in Ohio to serve more geograph ..read more

Hemp batteries for homes, cars made of hemp and hemp eco-villages, yes all these are topics discussed with Ramon Granados. Ramon has over 30 years experience as an Engineer in the construction world, his passion started after attending the NOCO hemp expo. Since, he has found many in the industry he now refers to as mentors. His passion for the hemp industry is fire and he is here to help us all through the challenges we face today. His company, https://www.hempengineering.com.au/ can help you with any of your consulting needs. Ramon can be found at ramongranados@gmail.com, https://www.linkedin ..read more

Ana and Drew have taken their knowledge and expertise in the building space into the use of hempcrete as a healthy building alternative. CoExist Build is an architectural design organization that not only designs healthy hempcrete homes, but also manufactures hemp building products and grows hemp for research purposes. In addition, Ana and Drew have multiple hempcrete structures they have built on their property as research tools. These two are passionate about building with hemp and the overall health benefits it provides to our individual self and the environment. We discuss how traditional ..read more

Michael Patterson of MGMC Pharma Group and Cannabis Pharmaceutical Research and Development shares a vast amount of knowledge about the industry, where it's headed both domestically and internationally, how this industry differs from others, how to get started, and the importance of using LinkedIn as a business growth tool. The hemp/cannabis industry is in it's infancy therefore has a massive amount of space for growth, innovation and development. Now is the time for those to get in on the ground floor. Michael discusses the different aspects of the industry, he understands licensing laws of a ..read more

Dawn has taken her prior years of farming experience into farming for CBD. She takes great pride in the quality of what she grows, how it's grown, and the end product produced. Dawn operates an organic hemp farm and lab in Maryland. She not only grows her product, but she also processes it and bottles it to be sold to the end user. Dawn shares some of the struggles she's encountered as well as the many successes. She has a passion for the health and well-being of the individual and the planet and is showing and sharing this passion through her ventures. She sells some amazing products through ..read more

With over 30 years in manufacturing and implementation of automated technology, Bobby Ziner has taken this expertise into hemp decortication and fiber optimization with the use of automated technology. The automated technology will track all data points, including but not limited to, output from farmers, quality of crops for production, strain specific data, geographical growing data, final output quality and uses...  Bobby's system will provide the figures that are not currently available in the hemp industry. Bobby implemented automated technology in the wood industry over 30 years ago ..read more

Dr. Leah is a pharmacist that began researching cannabis and hemp as a medicine and integrating its uses with patients pharmaceutical protocols. Dr. Leah is passionate about helping her patients heal. She does a full evaluation of a patients current pharmacological protocols and integrates cannabis into their healing journey. She helps identify pharmaceuticals that may not be necessary, how each pharmaceutical interacts with different cannabis products and works one on one with a patients physician to determine the best path to recovery. In addition to being a medical cannabis consultant, Dr ..read more

Susan from Shemp Yarn shares her many years of experience building strategic alliances and how building those alliances help build stronger business relationships and more successful organizations. Susan has taken her many years of experience into creating a product derived from hemp and wool in her new company Shemp. Shemp is focused on creating 100% USA made and grown hemp wool yarn that can be used in a multitude of applications from clothing to rugs. Shemp is currently in the final phases of development and eager to finalize their first product for commercial uses. Susan shows that taking ..read more

Dion Oakes is an honest, integral, family loving man that has taken those values into the world of hemp. Dion is a multi-generational farmer that has incorporated hemp into his rotation and helps educate and assist other farmers that are looking to do the same. Through WO Hemp Processing and Wright-Oakes LLC, Dion Oakes and Shanan Wright grow and process hemp for nutritional food products. They provide wholesale bulk products for white labeling and retail operations that are interested in adding hemp food products to their products and shelves. In addition they have research and tested seeds t ..read more

Jim is a co-founder of Shining Star Hemp and talks about leveraging with good partnerships and growing for CBD on a large scale.  Not only does Shining Star Hemp grow for CBD, but they have also developed special machinery to help with the harvesting of crops.  The folks at Shining Star Hemp help educate and provide harvesting services to their fellow hemp growers.  Jim has spent many years in corporate project management and has taken that expertise to start and run Shining Star Hemp.  Relationships, quality and partnerships are what is important to those at Shining Star H ..read more