The Solution Under Our Feet: How Regenerative Organic Agriculture

Can Save Your Bacon

John W. Roulac, Founder & CEO

Nutiva’s Hemp Offering

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New Hemp Foods

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Nutiva Organic Hemp

Hemp Oil Hempseed Hemp Protein0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

65.8%

33.5%

52.8%48.3%

19.5%

33.6%

Nutiva's Share of Organic MarketNutiva'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 NaturalPeriod Ending 2/22/15

Nutiva Gives Back 1%

Nutiva Donating 750 Chestnut Seedlings to Farmers & Ranchers

US Organic food sales exceed $45 billion in 2015 *

*United States Organic Foods Market Forecast & Opportunities 2020 by Research & Markets 2015

$32.3B2013

$35B2014

$45B2015

Divergence Between Supply & Demand of Organics in the US

4%

96%

Food Sales

Organic Food SalesNon-organic food sales

0.7%

99.3%

Organic US Acreage

Organic AcresNon-organic Acres

Hemp: America’s Homegrown Superfood

The Search for Omegas

Certified Organic Hemp – Earth’s Premier Renewable Resource

Hemp Construction

Low carbon

Easy to process & build

Replaces energy intensive & toxic ti-vec installation &

glass

“Hempcrete” housing

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."

Canadian Hemp Licensed Acreage 1998-2014

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1135 License768 Cultivation

11.5K ha CFX-213.6K ha Finola

Health Canada

108,462 ac43,912 ha

67% increase

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 PricingCertified Organic $1.75+/lb

Conventional $0.75+/lb

*Bushel (bu) = 19.96kg/ha (44 lb/bu)

Growing HempGeneral 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 timewww.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/index.html

HEMP – an Ancient Plant with a Future

Agronomic BenefitsHemp 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

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

How do we monetize conventional farmers for using regenerative

practices?

Shifting Story of Climate Change

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

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

A Monster Algae Bloom Takes Over the Pacific Ocean

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

Now, how do we make this spaceship work?

We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one.

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

Imagine healthy soils & a healthy future…