Presented at the GoOrganic! Seminar in Kentucky, this presentation includes slides on hemp production and invaluable information on regenerative agriculture.

1. The Solution Under Our Feet:
How Regenerative Organic Agriculture
Can Save Your Bacon
John W. Roulac, Founder & CEO

2. Nutiva’s Hemp Offering
2

3. New Hemp Foods
3

4. Nutiva Organic Hemp
65.8%
33.5%
52.8%
48.3%
19.5%
33.6%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Hemp Oil Hempseed Hemp Protein
Nutiva's Share of Organic Market
Nutiva's Share of Total Market (Organic & Non-Organic)
Nutiva’s hemp is always
organic – no pesticides or
chemical fertilizers used in
the growing process
Nutiva helped pioneered
the hemp food industry in
the US and is a leader in
legalizing the farming of
industrial hemp.
Source: SPINS Scan Natural
Period Ending 2/22/15

5. Nutiva Gives Back 1%
100s of Organizations Funded
GMO Inside
Rodale
Institute
EcoFarm Vote Hemp
Over $3 Million Donated to:
Sustainable
Farming
Food &
Environmental
Activism
Trees &
Gardens
Healthy
Communities

6. Nutiva Donating 750 Chestnut Seedlings
to Farmers & Ranchers

7. US Organic food sales exceed $45 billion in 2015 *
*United States Organic Foods Market Forecast & Opportunities 2020 by Research & Markets 2015
$32.3B
2013
$35B
2014
$45B
2015

8. Divergence Between Supply & Demand of Organics in the US
4%
96%
Food Sales
Organic
Food Sales
Non-
organic
food sales
0.7%
99.3%
Organic US Acreage
Organic
Acres
Non-
organic
Acres

9. Hemp: America’s Homegrown Superfood

10. The Search for Omegas
Organic Hemp is nature’s ideal
balance of omega-3 & omega-
6 fatty acids – loaded with
magnesium, zinc, & iron
4 out of 10 consumers are
looking for an alternative to
fish oil

11. Certified Organic Hemp –
Earth’s Premier Renewable Resource

12. Hemp Construction
Low carbon
Easy to process &
build
Replaces energy
intensive & toxic ti-
vec installation &
glass
“Hempcrete” housing

13. Wright’s 1918 article
“Wisconsin’s Hemp Industry”
"Hemp has been demonstrated to
be the best smother crop for
assisting in the eradication of quack
grass and Canada thistles… At
Waupon in 1911 the hemp was
grown on land badly infested with
quack grass, and in spite of an
unfavorable season a yield of two
thousand one hundred pounds of
fiber to the acre was obtained and
the quack grass was practically
destroyed."

14. Canadian Hemp Licensed Acreage 1998-2014
0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
Number(ac)
Year
1135 License
768 Cultivation
11.5K ha CFX-2
13.6K ha Finola
Health Canada
108,462 ac
43,912 ha
67% increase

15. Hemp Seed, Grain & Contract Pricing
Canadian Dollar
Sown at 20-30lb/ac
Seed Cost $2.25-3.00/lb
Avg. Grain Yield
20-30bu*/ac = 880-1320 lb/ac
(49-74bu*/ha = 985-1478kg/ha)
Contract Pricing
Certified Organic $1.75+/lb
Conventional $0.75+/lb
*Bushel (bu) = 19.96kg/ha (44 lb/bu)

16. Growing Hemp
General Observations
Avoid wet cold soils
Soil temperature: warm < 46.4° F
Equipment – cracking seed
Seeding rate 25-30 to 40lb/ac
Plant shallow into moisture
Requires quick emergence
Weed competition
No registered pesticides - food
Needs Nitrogen- crop rotation, fertilizers
Regulations
Hemp- relatively modest for the amount of biomass
Can absorb and preserve water for a long time
www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/index.html

17. HEMP – an Ancient Plant with a Future

18. Agronomic Benefits
Hemp naturally suppresses weeds and returns nitrogen back to the soil.
Adding new crops to a rotation helps break disease cycles.
Preliminary research shows that hemp in rotations may decrease soybean nematodes cyst
populations.
Hemp requires low to zero chemical inputs of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides.
Frost and drought tolerant but it cannot handle standing water as seedlings.
Hemp can be seeded later than other crops and it can be re-seeded if required.
The crop is day length sensitive thus it flowers about the same time each year.
Reference: Hermann, Anndrea 2008. Appendix D.
Canadian National Industrial Hemp Strategy (NIHS)
pp. 284-344, – Literature Review of the Agronomics
of Industrial Hemp: Seeding and Harvesting
Literature Review Agronomics: Industrial Hemp
Seeding and Harvesting.
Slide credit: Hermann, A and Owen, A.
Image: Owen, Manitoba, Canada 2011
Q
uality - Integrity - Knowledg
e
www.HempIndustries.org

19. Primary Production
Harvesting, Drying & Storage
Intact hull and the ‘nut’ should be creamy white color
Harvest at 18% moisture or less but no more than 25%
Immediate drying under aeration to 9-8% moisture content
Prevent heating & crusting in bin by turning
2 year storage under proper conditions
Continually monitoring the grain as it can become unstable.
Hopper bottom bins
Grain from Combine
A. Hermann
A. Hermann

21. Shifting Story of Climate Change
New story – oceans are becoming
acidic, destroying our oxygen supply
Solution: new app to drawdown carbon
via regenerative & pasture systems
Current story argues the planet is
getter hotter
Solar & wind is the answer

22. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
~30% emitted
via agriculture
Largely
attributable to
animals &
Nitrogen
Fertilizers
92.5% of
farmland is
devoted to
animal
production
• emits by far the
most GHGs

23. Rodale Institute: Down-to-Earth
Solution to Climate Change
“Regenerative
Organic
Agriculture”
Maximize carbon
fixation, minimize
loss of carbon once
returned to soil
Reverse the
Greenhouse Effect
Organically
managed soils
can convert
carbon CO2 from
a greenhouse gas
into  a food-
producing asset

25. A Monster Algae Bloom Takes Over the Pacific Ocean

29. Health & Safety
Glyphosate/RoundUp®
Found in human
& animal urine,
animal tissues –
contradicts
regulatory
assumptions &
industry
assuances
Antimicrobial
effect on
animals’ gut
flora.
Linked to birth
defects in
rabbits & rats –
evidence
contradicts
regulatory
conclusions.
Evidence of
endocrine
disruption in rat
testicular cells.
RoundUp®
found to be 125
times more toxic
than glyphosate
– contradicts
regulatory
assumptions &
industry
assurances
Glyphosate
residues in
animal feed
linked to low
trace minerals in
cattle body
tissues

32. 5 Principles of Soil Health from Natural Resources Conservation Service
Compost &
Cover Soil
Plant Cover
Crops
Minimize
Soil
Disturbance
Maximize
Diversity
Integrate
Livestock on
Land

33. Imagine healthy soils & a healthy future…