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MACE Media Group to Host The Original CBD Expo South 2020
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The in-person event will be held in Houston, Texas on December 11 through 12 and feature networking, exhibitions, education, and seminars Houston, Texas – October 28, 2020 – The Original CBD Expo South 2020 will be held in-person on December 11 through December 12, 2020 in Houston, Texas. The eve…

Podcast Episode 11: Riverside Hemp
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Our friends from the Bayou talk to us about their recent hemp grow as they prepare for another grow season this next year. We learn about Riverside Hemp’s operations and product development. Show Notes CELEBRATING 28 YEARS IN HORTICULTURE I 2020 HEMP CROP. Riverside Hemp is committed …

PODCAST # 10 Green Mountain Flower Co.
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Bringing wellness to the world through ultra-concentrated terpene rich CBD oil derived from all natural, high quality industrial hemp. The couple own Green Mountain Flower Company – a premier CBD boutique located in North Austin off of 183 and Anderson Mill – and their mission is to curate a pers…

Should California Vineyards Be Looking into Hemp?
BY DANIEL JONES California’s wine industry is quite the behemoth, a staple in the American economy. If it were its own country, the state would be the fourth largest wine producer in the world. California makes 81 percent of all U.S. wine, and three out of every five bottles sold in the cou…

A Pacific Northwest State of Mind
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Hemp priorities in Washington State When you tell Seattle residents you moved to Seattle from Austin, you generally get two very different follow-up questions, depending on the person: One is, “What tech company do you work for that brought you here?” (It’s a tech hub very much like Austin, with …

Podcast Show # 9
Episode 9: Leann Hemenway I Cannabis Banking Product Manager with Herring Bank. Leann discusses opportunities for growers in the Texas area states to bank with Herring Bank in this rough waters of finance and compliance surrounding the growing Hemp and Cannabis space in the United States. Merchan…

Hemp Industry Files Lawsuits Against DEA Over Release of Rule Regarding Hemp
On August 21, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published an interim final rule (IFR) pertaining to hemp that acknowledged the

Building with Hempcrete
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Innovative Hemp Building Operation began in Texas in 2008 Passion met opportunity for Gail Moran in early 2008 when an unlikely candidate for her project – hemp – came into play with an innovative building venture, launching the first US venture of its kind and paving the way for the future of th…

Podcast Episode #5
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Colman discusses the Hemp Industry nationally and some of the goals that the organization works on each week to work with Washington by fueling the growth of the Hemp Industry. Also how this year was essentially a ramp year for Texas Hemp producers and what we can anticipate for the Lone Star sta…

Interview: Riverside Hemp
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Where are you located? Hempstead, Texas When did you begin farming? We have been growing ornamental landscaping plants since 1992 and started growing Hemp in April 2020. Is hemp your primary crop? And what do you produce (pulp, CBD, textiles)? No, hemp is not our primary c…

Podcast #4
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This week for the first half we speak with CEO Lee Vernon of First Responder Fuel CBD about their mission (listen for a discount code), their product lab testing practices and even their client’s drug testing results. Then during the second half we discuss hemp banking issues with the CEO a…

Podcast # 3
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This week we spoke with Noe, Joe, and Frank of TPS Labs and discussed growing tips and do’s and dont’s with regards to growing hemp flower here in the Lone Star state. Soils and seeds are crucial to grow operations in this short trial run of 2020’s grow season. We also spoke wit…

The Story of George Trout: Texan Hemp Pioneer
Texas was not exempt from the hemp propaganda of the early 30’s and leave it to hemp historian and grower, Les Stark, to unearth the truths of one Rio Grande Valley man whose story was lost to the times, a pioneer in the crop lost too soon – the story of George Trout. Recognizing the […]

Texas Hemp Show- Podcast # 2
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Smokable Hemp Ban in Texas, Temporary Injunction Granted – Win for Texas Manufacturers, Processors & Retailers and this weeks show we featured two of the States attorneys that are leading the charge to keep smokable Hemp here in Texas for retailers, growers,processors and of course consumers….

Fall Podcast Schedule: Texas Hemp Show
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2020 Fall Season is recorded at Take Off Terminal Studios in Austin. Show Notes Russell Dowden and co-host is Jesse Williams of the Texas Cannabis Collective will interview the guests below and we encourage you to support the Texas Hemp Reporter and the Texas Hemp Show by sharing the link with yo…

The Texas Hemp Show: Podcast # 1
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Summary This is Show # 1 of the Podcast. Recorded at Take Off Terminal Studios in Austin. Show Notes: This week on the show we have John Kern’s of New Bloom Labs, Ben Meggs of Bayou City Hemp in Houston & Adam Jernigan Co-Founder COO | Sweet Sensi CBD. Great kick-off for the new Podcast…