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NIHC Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit · Wed, Sept 16, 2026 · 2:00–3:00 PM

Working Together Works

Growers, processors, builders, and national advocacy groups each see one link of the domestic hemp supply chain. NIHC Pulse is the shared data layer underneath all four — the same live Research, Verification, Funding, and Policy signals, pulled from DEA, FDA, and USDA sources, running across every organization below, in real time.

5
Organizations, one coalition
2:00 PM
Wed, Sept 16 · the panel
Live
Pulse signals, real-time

Coalition Pulse Map

The same coalition, live on the ecosystem

NIHC sits at the center; the four panelist organizations sit on the segments of the industry they represent. Each card below pulls its own live feed from the same Signals data already running across NIHC Pulse.

Hub · National Advocacy
National Industrial Hemp Council
Patrick Atagi, President & CEO — convening the panel
Live across all segments
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Grow
Kentucky Hemp Growers Co-op
Joe Hickey, President — cultivation & grower economics
Live: Research signals
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Process
Hemp Feed Coalition
Andrew Bish, President — feed ingredient approval & processing
Live: Verification signals
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Manufacture
US Hemp Building Association
Shawn Ledig, President — building codes & hempcrete manufacturing
Live: Funding signals
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Regulate
US Hemp Roundtable
Jonathan Miller, General Counsel — federal & state policy
Live: Policy signals
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Signal feeds above are live from the same Signals dataset at /signals.html — nothing here is staged for the demo.

The Panel

Domestic Industry United: “Working Together Works!”

Moderated conversation across five organizations, each anchored in a different link of the same supply chain.

Moderator

Morris Beegle

Co-Founder & Principal, Bio-Smart Group — moderates the panel across all five organizations.

Hub · NIHC

Patrick Atagi

President & CEO, National Industrial Hemp Council — convenes the coalition and hosts NIHC Pulse.

Grow

Joe Hickey

President, Kentucky Hemp Growers Co-op Association — representing cultivation on the ground.

Process

Andrew Bish

President, Hemp Feed Coalition — driving AAFCO feed-ingredient approval and processing standards.

Manufacture

Shawn Ledig

President, US Hemp Building Association — building codes and hempcrete/fiber construction materials.

Regulate

Jonathan Miller

General Counsel, US Hemp Roundtable — federal and state legislative & regulatory strategy.

The Glue

One shared layer, five organizations, one industry

None of these organizations sees the whole domestic supply chain from where they sit — a grower co-op doesn't track federal policy, and a national advocacy office doesn't track cultivation yields. NIHC Pulse is what lets them act like they do: the same live Signals feed, filtered five different ways for five different seats at the table.

Grow → Process

Kentucky Hemp Growers Co-op → Hemp Feed Coalition

The Research signals tracking DEA rules on cultivating hemp sit in the same dataset as FDA's live Verification signal on cannabis-derived products in animal feed — the crop and the feed-ingredient approval work it feeds into, in one place.

Process → Manufacture

Hemp Feed Coalition → US Hemp Building Association

USDA's live Funding signals — processing-expansion grants, rural cooperative development, specialty-crop infrastructure — are the same feed builders draw on to scale hempcrete and fiber manufacturing capacity. Processing money and building capacity move through one stream, not two.

Manufacture → Regulate → Hub

US Hemp Building Association → US Hemp Roundtable → NIHC

The same 12 live Policy signals — DEA's marijuana-rescheduling rule, USDA's Domestic Hemp Production Program — are what US Hemp Roundtable tracks for legislative strategy and what NIHC uses to convene the coalition. One feed, read for two different jobs.

That's what “working together works” means outside a slogan: a domestic industry running on one live data layer instead of five disconnected ones. Patrick Atagi convenes the coalition; NIHC Pulse is the infrastructure that makes the convening real between meetings, not just during them.