Hemp Barons

“Got Milk?,” “Pork: The Other White Meat,” “The Incredible Edible Egg,” “Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner” are all examples of Checkoff Programs.

Checkoff Programs require farmers to pay a certain percentage of their harvest into a national fund, which is used to promote the consumption of commodities like pork, beef, eggs, and milk.   John Johnson is a Checkoff expert having worked for the USDA and National Pork Board.    As a board member of the National Industrial Hemp Council he talks to Joy Beckerman about  their efforts to implement a national Hemp Checkoff Program.

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Hemp is far superior to cotton and other synthetic polyesters but until recently was not widely used in the United States for clothing or other textiles.   Through his company Hemp Traders, Larry Serbin has been providing hemp products for over three-decades.   He joins Joy Beckerman to talk about the opportunities that the rebirth of the American textile industry is creating.

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For over a century, discriminatory policies and practises have made farming and land-ownership difficult for people of color.   The cornerstone of attorney Scheril Murray Powell's career has been working to help level the playing field for people who have been unfairly disadvantaged.   Named one of the top 12 cannabis attorney's in Florida, she discusses with Joy Beckerman some of the many agricultural challenges facing her community.   

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Hemp was one of America's most important global crops long before United States independence.  Renowned historical documentarian Kent Masterson Brown from Witnessing History  joins Joy Beckerman to discuss his latest project about the history of hemp in American.   He shares accounts of hemp production from the Jamestown settlement through the Civil War and beyond.  

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For over three decades Joy Beckerman has devoted her life to advancing the promise of hemp. Through her relentless efforts she has gained the respect and admiration of hemp barons around the world.  Today Dion Markgraaff, Ah Warner, Bob Hoban, Cait Curley, Ruth Shamai, Jonathan Miller, Anndrea Hermann and Morris Beegle join us to celebrate her one-year anniversary of hosting the Hemp Barons podcast.

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Working every day towards a more harmonious world, Brianna Kilcullen is applying her years of sustainability and supply chain expertise to disrupt the textile industry.   She joins Joy Beckerman from HempAce International to talk about the many benefits hemp has over other fibers.   For example, one Anact's hemp bath towels saves 526 days of drinking water.

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Josh Schneider has achieved horticultural all-star status with his work in the ornamental and agricultural sectors of the global plant business.   His experience founding and managing the global supply chain for the Global Breadfruit and 20+ years of hands-on experience in retail and wholesale international horticultural provided him with the expertise to build a reliable hemp supply chain.   He joins Joy Beckerman from HempAce International to discuss Cultivaris Hemp's mission to provide the best hemp varieties to farmers and growers across the country.

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Michael McGuffin  has been at the forefront of the herb and dietary supplement industry since 1974 and for the last 21 years has been leading the American Herbal Products Association.  He speaks to Joy Beckerman from Hemp Ace International about providing regulators with best practice recommendations for hemp cultivation, manufacturing, retail dispensing and lab practices. 

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The National Industrial Hemp Council has developed a national marketing campaign strategy.    The association's Chairmen, Patrick Atagi joins Joy Beckerman from Hemp Ace International to talk about relying on his dynamic board members vast experiences to help design a national Check-Off program to fund this ambitious initiative.

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