BURLINGTON, Vt. — A keynote talk by a leading U.S. cannabinoid researcher is among the highlights of the third annual Industrial Hemp Conference, to be held Feb. 26.
The University of Vermont Extension Northwest Crops and Soils Program and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets hosted the
Third Annual Industrial Hemp Conference (click to view conference brochure), which was held virtually on Friday, February 26, 2021.
The 2021 Industrial Hemp Conference proceedings are now available online. You will find the presentation videos for all the live presentations and the on-demand ones, as well as a PDF of the live presentation powerpoint (if available) and resources that were posted on the virtual conference website. The proceedings are on the eXtension website and are available for a fee of $75.
If you attended the conference on February 26 virtually, you can send me an email request to receive a voucher code to access these proceedings at no additional cost, susan.brouillette@uvm.edu. I can confirm your attendance with our master attendee list.
Rachel Schattman and
Kate Yerxa of the University of Maine.
The awards will support at least 22 UVM faculty and students from 5 colleges/schools and 8 departments. Over 40 local, national, and international collaborators from at least 8 partner institutions will participate, including the University of California-Davis, the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), the Winooski School District, Bioversity International, and Bahir Dar University.
Catalyst Awards are the Gund Institute’s flagship seed grant competition, and have provided over $800,000 in startup funds, supporting over 100 UVM scholars and 20 innovative projects, since launching four years ago. In three years, the program has generated over $8M in external funding, a 12-to-1 return on investment.
Delaware Ag Week kicked off on Jan. 11 with a hemp webinar that focused on risk management.
This yearâs Ag Week event, which is sponsored by the University of Delaware, is being held virtually with sessions running until Jan. 22.
Tyler Mark, a University of Kentucky production economist, said that the competition is stiff for hemp growers. For producers of CBD oil, usually the most lucrative crop, pricing is based on quality, taste, dosing accuracy, legal status, contaminants, and presence of THC.
Oil production requires extensive monitoring of the crop throughout the growing cycle, and that the price of seeds is half the initial production cost, Mark said.