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Schedule of Activities and Speakers
October 20-22
The Barnhill Center, Brenham, TX
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Register for All Events
Register for Monday Only
Register for Dinner/Social
Register for Tuesday Only
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20th - "Vendors Speak"
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1:00 - 6:00 - Hasskarl Auditorium
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1:00 - 2:00 Registration
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2:00 - 2:20 Ionization Labs - Chase McMichael
Prompt Potency Testing Solution
2:20 - 2:40 Acquity Underwriting Management - Richard Duer
Crop Insurance Options
3:40 - 4:00 New Bloom Labs - Jeff Sullivan
The Importance of Testing for Compliance and Quality Control in the Modern Hemp Industry
4:00 - 4:20 Texagon Distribution - Jonathan Green
Grow Your Hemp Business
4:20 - 4:40 TPS Lab, Frank Shultz
Benefits of soil and plant testing
4:40 - 5:00 Bayou City Hemp. Jeromy Sherman
Texas’s “Original” Hemp Seed to Sale Processing
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5:00 - 5:20 Shop Tough Bags
Ag bags, Retail Bags, Food Safe bags
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5:20 - 5:40 Crown Grow
Your one-stop hemp solution. We Grow Better Together™
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Balcony Seating for Vendors Speak Event is Free to the Public!
Vendor Tables Open to the Public
Vendor Setup:
October 20 - 12:00 - 1:00 or
October 21 - 8:00 - 9:00
Take Down
October 22 - 5:00
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:00 Welcome
- Coleman Hemphill, TXHIA President
- Sheila Hemphill, TXHIA Executive Director - Introduction of TXHIA Board Members
- Meet and Greet
- Hemp 101
- Introduction of County Coordinators
10:00 - 10:45 USDA Rules, TX Rules, Licensing and Seed
Certification and/Approval.
- Dan Hunter, TDA Assistant Commissioner
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10:45 - 11:15 Sponsored Break - "Life Began in a Garden"
11:15 - 1200 Soil and Crop Considerations
- Dr. David Baltensperger, Professor and Chair Texas A&M Soil and Crop Sciences
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
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1:00 - 1:30 DSHS Registration/Labeling/Random Testing
- Dr. Rod Moline and Joe Williams
Texas Department of State Health Services
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1:30 - 2:00 USDA Crop Insurance Update
- Stephanie Storrs, AgriLogic Consulting
2:00 - 2:45 Cannabinoid Testing for Production Optimization and Compliance
- Ionization Labs
- Chase McMichael, Chief Science Officer
2:45 - 3:15 Sponsored Break - "Mark Case"
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3::15 - 4:00 Formulation Extraction/GMP/USDA Organics
- Thomas Otis, Focus Hemp
4:00 - 4:45 - Summary Q&A Panel
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7:00 - 10:00 Dinner and Social
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
8:30 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:40 Welcome - History of the TXHIA
- Sheila Hemphill, TXHIA Executive Director
9:40 - 10:00 State of the Hemp Industry in Texas
- Coleman Hemphill, TXHIA President
10:00 - 10:45 Where and How to Market Your Hemp.
- Mark Case, Southern Hemp Market, TN and the International Hemp Live Auction and Market,
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- Jonathan Green and David Moore,
Texagon Distribution, OR-OK-TX
10:45 - 11:15 Sponsored Break - "Tawakoni Plant Farm"
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11:15 - 12:00 Short Term and Long Term Production
Strategies
- Joseph Harris, Life Began in a Garden
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
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1:00 - 2:00 Avoiding Disaster - Soil Fertility & Plant
Nutrition: Keys To A Successful Crop
- Noel Garcia, TPS Labs
2:00 - 3:00 Seed Genetics and Cultivation Best Practices
- Jeremy Klettke, Davis Farms, OR
2:45 - 3:00 Sponsored Break -
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3:00 - 3:45 Soil and Greenhouse Do's and Don'ts
- Justin Pinkus, Tawakoni Plant Farm, TX
- Brad Stufflebeam, Sweet Home Hemp, TX
- Christian Dake, Dake Land Design, TX
3:45 - 5:00 TXHIA Members Only Business Meeting
- We will be discussing the TXHIA processes to be nominated and how elections will be conducted for district and regional
coordinators, and regional and general
directors and the roles of committees, etc.
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