‘Study the market carefully and don’t follow the pack’
INTERVIEW: Eric Steenstra is president of Vote Hemp, a political advocacy organization he co-founded in 2000 which led the effort to pass hemp farming legislation…
Interview
‘Now is the time to get facts ahead of the market excitement’
INTERVIEW: Jeffrey Steiner is associate director of the Global Hemp Innovation Center at Oregon State University. Formerly division director for plant production at the U.S….
Hemp in Japan: Beyond ‘schizophrenia,’ potential for the environment
INTERVIEW: Yosuke Koga is Director at Japanese hemp company Prossimo, which is developing a broad portfolio of hemp-derived products and recently embarked on retail operations…
CanXchange: ‘Looking for new ways to disrupt and innovate’
Alex Arkentis is the CEO and Co-Founder of CanXchange, the European commodities exchange for physical hemp and CBD products. A serial technology entrepreneur and investor,…
‘We’d like to see a decorticator next to every cotton gin’
Guy Carpenter is President and CEO of Bear Fiber, Inc., and President at Cape Fear Apparel Consulting, both of North Carolina. He also serves as a…
CBD shakeout expected to ‘drive diversification’ in Wisconsin
Shelby Ellison has directed the industrial hemp program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) since August 2020. An assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture,…
In a fast changing market, quality and flexibility are critical
Jacopo Paolini is a founding partner at Enecta, an Italian-Dutch company that develops new cannabis genetics and is a producer and seller of high-concentration cannabinoid products for…
Demand for sustainable textiles is big opportunity for hemp fiber
Susan Barnhardt is the founder of SHEMP Yarn Company (SYC), a Florida, U.S.-based producer of worsted textile yarn made from hemp and wool which is…
Processor sees hemp leading trend away from soy and GMO foods
[This is the third and final in a series of interviews with industry leaders who operate in non-hemp-specific sectors but who have incorporated hemp into…
Hemp takes on growing importance for German extractor
[This is the second in a series of interviews with industry leaders who operate in non-hemp-specific sectors but who have incorporated hemp into their businesses.]…
