Taylor Kirk | Travis Higginbotham | Susan Hays | David D. Baltensperger, Ph.D | Steve Graves | Sarah Kerver – Best Practices for Hemp In Texas

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Join Informed Texas for this informative online course on Best Hemp Practices in Texas. As Texas begins its first hemp season, information on the expanding industry is critical.

Taylor Kirk, Horticulture Service Specialist, talks about the state of hemp in Texas at 02:25.

12:30 – Travis Higginbotham, Founder and Owner Due Diligence Horticulture, LLC, will discuss sustainable cultivation and cultivar selection.

Taylor Kirk, Horticulture Service Specialist, 37:16 – Harvesting

53:37 – Sarah Kerver, Owner 1937 Apothecary – Testing and Development

Susan Hays, Lawyer, Advocate, and Crisis Manager – 01:08:01 – Application and Reporting Process

01:22:47 – Texas A&M AgriLife Research Update – Prof. David D. Baltensperger, Ph.D

01:32:50 – Fluence Research Update – Steve Graves, VP of Business Development for Fluence by OSRAM

Taylor Kirk works as a horticulture service professional at Fluence by OSRAM, where he focuses on counseling growing partners and partnering with researchers and other cannabis industry leaders to help the globe grow smarter. He joins the organization with over twenty years of agricultural expertise, a diversified background in agronomics, and a bachelor’s degree in agronomy from Texas A&M University.

Taylor’s professional focus shifted to cannabis production, breeding, R&D, cultivation facility design, and project management following the limited legalization of medical cannabis in Texas in his roles as vice president of operations and director of cultivation at Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TOCC). He established a solid cannabis growing program for the firm in these capacities, planting the first legal seeds under Texas’ medical cannabis program and producing medical cannabis cultivars for TOCC’s unique product demands.

Taylor is also an experienced hemp grower with extensive knowledge of light deprivation greenhouses and indoor facility design for vegetative-phase growing and post-harvest processing.

Higginbotham, Travis

Travis Higginbotham earned a BS in Environmental Horticulture from Clemson University and is currently working on his MS in Environmental Horticulture at Virginia Tech. For four years, Higginbotham was the Director of Research and Development at Battlefield Farms (a 40-acre greenhouse enterprise in Virginia). Higginbotham supervised all product development (new crop introductions) at Battlefield, working with 28 different worldwide flower breeding businesses. He was also one of three members on Lowe’s Corporate’s Research Council, where he advised on crop performance and selection countrywide. Higginbotham worked on a variety of initiatives, including post-harvest handling and transportation success, microorganism rearing as an alternative to harsh chemicals for pest management, and extensive work with lone source, photoperiodic, and supplementary illumination. Higginbotham completed his Battlefield career by creating an LED solitary source growing environment that effectively acclimates 2.6 million plants from stage III tissue culture each year.

Higginbotham collaborated extensively with Philips Lighting and OSRAM/Fluence Bioengineering on his lighting research. Higginbotham joined Fluence as Global Technical Support Director (Horticulture Service), where he created a grower consulting service to help Fluence’s sales teams service all horticulture markets, not just cannabis. Fluence is the world’s leading LED provider to the indoor and greenhouse cannabis markets, with 400 installations alone throughout North America. Higginbotham assembled a team from Australia, the European Union, Canada, and the United States. Higginbotham has worked with and advised several of North America’s and Europe’s major cannabis LPs (licensed producers).

Higginbotham now serves as Co-Owner, Sales & Business Development for The Hemp Mine, LLC. Higginbotham oversees The Hemp Mine’s sales, relationship development, and company development, as well as the Sales staff for both consumer ready goods and all manufacturing partners. The Hemp Mine now produces a wide range of goods, from smokeable flower to tinctures in various doses for both people and animals. These consumer goods are available in over 1,500 retail locations in the Southeast United States. Higginbotham is also the Founder and Owner of Due Diligence Horticulture, LLC, a horticultural consulting.

Mrs. Susan Hays

Susan Hays is a lawyer, advocate, and crisis management located in Austin, Texas, with over twenty-five years of legal and political experience. Her firm currently concentrates on cannabis law, from hemp to the entire cannabis regulatory structure. She has prepared license applications, worked as general counsel for a publicly traded, touch-the-plant cannabis firm, and was most recently involved in the design and passing of Texas’ 2019 hemp law.

She began her legal career as a legislative aide to a member of the Texas House. She went a few hundred yards north to work as a clerk at the Texas Supreme Court. In the years following, she has represented individuals, businesses, and organizations in courts and on Capitol Hill, calling on a diverse skill set to deploy the best techniques to achieve the client’s goals, whether through litigation, press strategy, or legislative lobbying.

She practices campaign compliance and legal ethics in addition to normal appellate work. She has provided legal and political counsel to several candidates for municipal, state, and federal positions across the state. Her statewide relationships are the result of twenty-five years of political activity in Texas.

Since 2005, she has been Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She has argued issues ranging from securities fraud to civil rights before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court, and other lower appellate courts. She has been in private practice since 2004, having previously working at Waters & Kraus, L.L.P. and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P. She is frequently included to the Texas Super Lawyers list. She received her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1996.

Susan has long been active in civic life, having served on various non-profit boards. She presently serves on the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life’s advisory board. She is most proud of co-founding Jane’s Due Process, Inc., a nonprofit legal assistance organization for juveniles in Texas.

Despite her expertise in evaluating complicated legal issues and developing clear, appealing legal arguments, she also enjoys getting her hands dirty to explore facts on the ground. She is equally at ease in a big city boardroom as she is in a small town courthouse.

Dr. David D. Baltensperger

In the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, provides leadership and administration for a wide comprehensive program of research, teaching, and extension. The department is well-known for its high quality, size, and breadth of subject matter. Soil and Crop Sciences Faculty undertake nationally and globally known research programs in plant breeding and genetics, biotechnology, crop physiology, agronomy, forage and turfgrass management, cereal chemistry, soil science, weed science, and environmental soil, water, and crop science. The Department has 34 research/teaching and 11 extension professors on campus at College Station, as well as 45 research and extension faculty stationed at 13 research and extension institutions around the state. The student body comprises of 125 undergraduate students and 120 graduate students from various states and 19 countries. Dr. Baltensperger recently coordinated hemp research and extension initiatives at Texas A&M University.

Graves, Steve

Steve Graves spent his early summers on his relatives’ farm in rural Minnesota, milking cows, bailing hay, and learning about agriculture. Steve accepted an abroad internship with OSRAM after getting his master’s degree in accounting from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, where he unexpectedly delved head-first into the global lighting sector. Steve jumped into OSRAM’s pricing, sales management, operations, and business development techniques throughout the world after a brief term as a sales intern in Munich, Germany. Since then, he has committed his life, career, and travels to exploring LED lighting technologies, eventually reuniting with farming to pursue improvements in controlled environment agriculture and current horticultural growth methods. His travels have led him to Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, where he has developed cross-cultural partnerships with worldwide lighting design and agricultural professionals.

After returning to the United States, Steve worked as the strategic program manager for OSRAM’s urban and digital farming business, where he was instrumental in Fluence’s purchase in mid-2018 and eventually joined Fluence as its director of global segment management.

Steve is now the worldwide vice president of business development at Fluence by OSRAM, where he is in charge of expanding Fluence’s product and commercial capabilities globally. Steve spends time with his wife and two children exploring Austin’s naturescapes, local breweries, and culinary culture when he isn’t fielding early calls from Fluence’s EMEA team or coordinating with APAC.

Kerver, Sarah

Entrepreneur and business owner. Working in the Cannabis Industry is my primary emphasis. Product creation at the grassroots level using marketing research. Austin’s first Cannabis-based Collective brings together several companies for cooperation.

Texas Cannabis Council’s standing president, with a focus on the current and future growth of the Texas cannabis sector via advocacy for public policies that assure appropriate regulation and strong business practices.

My skills include design and idea direction, brand awareness, talent management, project roadmaps and timelines, and staff management in high-pressure, deadline-driven situations with complex logistics and personalities. I’m bright, determined, tenacious, personable, and thorough.

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