OSU Extension hosted a Western Hemp Train-the-Trainer in March 2023. The event was created in support of the USDA NIFA Sustainable Agriculture Systems grant: Sustainably Incorporating Hemp Biobased Economy into Western U.S. Regional Rural and Tribal Lands. Recordings and presentations slides are linked below.
Introduction
Gordon Jones & Jeff Steiner, OSU
An Overview of the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program
Kate Tantakis, USDA AMS
Days of Yore: Hemp Realities in Oregon 2018-2022
Sunny Summers, ODA, & Gordon Jones, OSU
AgBiz Logic for Hemp
Clark Seavert, OSU
Hemp Production Panel
Paul Murdoch, Horn Creek Hemp; Joe Frey, Western States Hemp; Dalton Wittmer, IND Hemp
Hemp Economics
Beau Whitney, Whitney Economics
Hemp Breeding and Genetics
Stephen Baluch, OSU
Diseases of Hemp in the Western US
Cindy Ocamb, OSU
Interplay Between Plants and Insects in Hemp Production Systems
Govinda Shrestha, OSU
Tribal Engagement Panel
Staci Emm, UNR Extension, & Doug Boon, 7 Generations
This work was supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS), Grant no. 13333755/Project accession no. 1027531 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).