Join Mandi Kerr and John Read on Thursday morning’s episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward. John is the CEO and Co-Founder of Whitefield Global. John has spent his career working in agriculture and risk management. In 2018 he started looking into creating a risk management program for industrial hemp growers, and in 2019 co-founded Whitefield. In January of this year, Whitefield completed a series of mergers and acquisitions and is quickly becoming a leader in the fiber processing space.
For this morning, we’ll talk about:
1. Whitefield's vision as a farmer-centric nationwide fiber processor.
2. Discuss the background of the 5 companies that merged/acquired and the management team.
3. Putting the farmer first
4. Building a supply chain from scratch
