The seminar will be held at Southern Oregon University’s Arena Room of the Stevenson Union at 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, OR 97520. Tickets can be purchased online for $155.
SPRING HOPE, NC, March 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NEWMEDIAWIRE
Hemp, Inc. (OTC PINK: HEMP), a global leader in the industrial hemp industry with bi-coastal processing centers including the 85,000 square-foot multipurpose industrial hemp processing facility in Spring Hope, North Carolina, a state of the art processing center in Medford, Oregon, and a 500-acre hemp growing Eco-Village in Golden Valley, Arizona, announced today the first Oregon-based Hemp University educational seminar will take place at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, on March 23, 2019.
This full day of education, support and networking will be located just 13 miles from Hemp, Inc.’s sophisticated Local Processing Center in Medford, Oregon, which focuses on hemp flower harvesting, drying, curing, chucking, trimming, storing and post-processing for cannabidiol (CBD).
The day’s event will consist of eight, enriching seminars with two blocks of time that allow for networking with speakers and other industry personnel. The first block will start at 9:00 a.m., ending the day with a networking session from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
The seminar will be held at Southern Oregon University’s Arena Room of the Stevenson Union at 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, OR 97520. Tickets can be purchased online for $155.
In 2018, there were $3.7 billion in sales within the global hemp industry. Since the legalization of hemp in Oregon in 2015, the number of licensed growers in the state has climbed to 584, according to The Oregonian. Hemp University’s previous seminars in North Carolina have supported hundreds of farmers seeking to incorporate hemp into their crop rotation. The Hemp University supports Hemp, Inc.’s mission of empowering farmers nationwide to have access to a viable crop and its back-to-land movement.
“We are so excited to bring our expertise and resources to the state of Oregon,” said Hemp, Inc. CEO Bruce Perlowin. “Hemp University receives such a large turnout at its educational seminars in North Carolina that we decided to introduce them in our other operating markets. Hemp University provides farmers who are either interested in joining the hemp revolution or are already part of it, the ability to learn more about creating a profitable stream of income through educating them on maximizing crop revenue per acre.”
The seminars provide a unique opportunity for interested parties to learn more about the hemp industry from experts in the field. A sample of presenters at Hemp University, Ashland include: Bruce Perlowin, CEO of Hemp, Inc. “Hemp and the Renaissance of the Small Family Farm” Whitney Murdoch “Planting in Alliance with Nature” Farmer Tom Lauerman “Cooperative Farming – No Need to Reinvent the Wheel” Michael Monarch “Cultivating Profit with Hemp” Greg Flavall “Hempcrete – the Green Alternative Building Material”
In addition to the Hemp University seminar in Oregon, Hemp, Inc. also plans to expand their education reach to Arizona and Puerto Rico. Arizona is a location where Hemp, Inc. has multiple ventures which include retail store Hemp Healthcare in Dolan Springs, Arizona that sells high-end CBD and hemp-based products and its strategic growing partner’s 500-acre hemp growing eco-village in Golden Valley, Arizona. Puerto Rico is an area where Hemp, Inc. is scouting new locations for a local processing center and scouting acres to grow high CBD hemp.
To see a full list of presenters and to purchase tickets, visit the Hemp University website. To see 1-minute videos of Hemp, Inc.’s current activities, go to Bruce Perlowin’s personal Facebook page where he posts daily on all of Hemp, Inc.’s activities around the country.
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With a deep-rooted social and environmental mission at its core, Hemp, Inc. seeks to build a business constituency for the American small farmer, the American veteran, and other groups experiencing the ever-increasing disparity between tapering income and soaring expenses. As a leader in the industrial hemp industry with ownership of the largest commercial multi-purpose industrial hemp processing facility in North America, Hemp, Inc. believes there can be tangible benefits reaped from adhering to a corporate social responsibility plan.
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