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Down On The Farm helps farmers meet compliance with the new FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and third-party audits required by buyers of fruit and vegetables. We also help hemp and cannabis growers and processors with Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) handbooks and audits.

Blain Becktold worked as a County Executive Director of the USDA Farm Service Agency for 27 years, administering Government Farm Programs to farmers.

After retiring in 2011 from USDA, he formed Down On The Farm, a consulting service to assist farmers through the maze of government paperwork with the goal of receiving program benefits.

Down On The Farm helps farmers meet compliance with the new FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and third-party audits required by buyers of fruit and vegetables. Down On The Farm also helps hemp and cannabis growers and processors with Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) handbooks and audits.

In 2019, Blain co-founded iHemp Michigan, a non-profit trade association formed to bring a new commodity crop to Michigan farmers – industrial hemp. Blain grew hemp grain and CBD the first year it was legal.

Through that experience and consulting with experts from around the world about industrial hemp, Down On The Farm began manufacturing hemp products.

Down On The Farm manufactures Hemp Seed Oil, Hemp Protein Flour, Hemp Protein Cake, and Hemp Hearts & Hemp Bedding.

Down On The Farm also is a seed dealer for fiber and grain genetics and offers a decortication service.

East Mesa Inc. is committed to helping CBD reach its full potential. Our Colorado grown industrial hemp uses the highest quality clones, most effective extraction equipment, and tested against strictest standards. Our products and services are meant to help grow the CBD market and help other growers continue to improve on the quality of their products.

We produce a wide array of hemp products, including food, building materials, cosmetics and more.

Ecolife Science is a forward looking company researching and investing new era products for a sustainable future. The Mission is to research, discover and develop techniques, methods and applications that utilise hemp and other forms of cellulose derived bio-mass with the aim to significantly advance the social and health benefit to humanity using environmentally responsible methods.

Ecolife Science will form a Research Foundation which will be a not-for-profit entity set up to encourage researchers to educate and learn via the exploration of ideas and opportunities, surrounding the concept of deriving new age applications from organically derived materials for future needs. Where IP can be derived and commercialised, funds generated must return to the Foundation for future projects.

Estonian Organic Protein Cooperation was founded in 2017 by the 5 biggest hemp farmers in Estonia. In 2018 we built a-state-of-the-art hemp production facility capable of sorting, de-hulling and oil pressing.
It is the biggest de-hulling factory in Europe with zero-waste production. Estonia is the 3rd biggest hemp producer in Europe and more than half of our entire country’s harvest is being produced by our members and partners. Total ha more than 6000 per year.

15 years of growing hemp.

We offer a wide range of products ranging from hulled hemp seeds and hemp seed oil to hemp fibre and hemp feed oil. Furthermore, we are one of the few reliable producers of high-quality organic hemp protein 70%. We are certified under ISO 22000, Naturland and the Organic label, and sell our products in bulk or under a private label.

To continuously process high-quality hemp products, we also continue to ramp up our supply of hemp year by year. We may be a small country, but we are known for making big things happen. Also there is a lot of arable land in Estonia, which helps us turn our vision into reality.