Western Hemp Train-the-Trainer

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

Recording

An Overview of the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program

Kate Tantakis, USDA AMS

Recording

Presentation Slides

Days of Yore: Hemp Realities in Oregon 2018-2022

Sunny Summers, ODA, & Gordon Jones, OSU

Recording

Presentation Slides

AgBiz Logic for Hemp

Clark Seavert, OSU

Recording

Presentation Slides

Hemp Production Panel

Paul Murdoch, Horn Creek Hemp; Joe Frey, Western States Hemp; Dalton Wittmer, IND Hemp

Recording

Hemp Economics

Beau Whitney, Whitney Economics

Recording (part 1)

Recording (part 2)

Presentation Slides

Hemp Breeding and Genetics

Stephen Baluch, OSU

Recording

Presentation Slides

Diseases of Hemp in the Western US

Cindy Ocamb, OSU

Recording

Presentation Slides

Interplay Between Plants and Insects in Hemp Production Systems

Govinda Shrestha, OSU

Recording

Presentation Slides

Tribal Engagement Panel

Staci Emm, UNR Extension, & Doug Boon, 7 Generations

Recording

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).

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