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NIHC 2022 Business, Research and Farm Summit

CH2M HILL Alumni Center Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon,

The NIHC is proud to present its third annual business summit, a remarkable event bringing together the hemp industry’s leading business, legal, and regulatory figures for pivotal discussions about developments […]

Welcome to OSU

Speaker: Dr. Staci Simonich, Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences OSU’s Global Hemp Innovation Center is home to the world’s leading experts in hemp research. The largest of its […]

Introduction Patrick Atagi, President and CEO

The 2022 Hemp Business Summit: The National Industrial Hemp Council (NIHC), a guiding lighthouse of information in the swirling sea of hearsay and information overload.

Hemp Outlook- State and Federal Policy

Speakers: Courtney Moran, President and Lobbyist of the Oregon Industrial Hemp Farmers Association Sunny Summers, Oregon Department of Agriculture This year there was a flurry of activity in the states, […]

Coffee Break

Sponsored by West Town Bank

The Economics of Hemp, Whitney Economics

Speaker: Beau Whitney, NIHC Chief Economist Hemp and cannabis are nascent industry verticals that face unique pressures. The US hemp and cannabis industries significantly benefit from more hard data and […]

Sequestration, Carbon Credits and the Hemp Industry

Speaker: Julie Lerner, PanXchange CEO Hemp is a major carbon sequestering plant, a top tier crop that can be a player in carbon sequestration. On average, an acre of hemp […]

NIHC Verified Product Label & ASTM Lab Certification

Speakers: Lakshmy Mahon, President & CEO of Global Data Vision Kelly O’Connor, Key Accounts, Sales Director, Columbia Laboratories The NIHC has partnered with SEI and ASTM International to create a […]

Impacts of Cultivation: Enforcement, Communities and Environment

Speakers: Sheriff Nate Sickler, Sheriff of Jackson County, Oregon Courtney Moran, President and Lobbyist of the Oregon Industrial Hemp Farmers Association Jake Johnstone, Deputy Division Administrator, Oregon Water Resources Department […]

Animal Feed: Addressing a global need and the path forward

Speakers: Graham Owen, President, Delta Ag, Hunter Buffington, VP of Policy & Advocacy Element6, Hollis Glenn, Deputy Commissioner of Operations for the Colorado Department of Agriculture (VIRTUAL) Hemp must be, […]

Monday Night Reception

Join us and our Sponsor: Gordon & Rees, Scully, Mansukhani in the beautiful, Giustina Living Room at the OSU Alumni Center for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.