Putting the Farmer First with John Read

<p>Join Mandi Kerr and John Read on Thursday morning’s episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward.</p> <p>John is the CEO and Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.whitefieldglobal.com/" target="_blank">Whitefield Global</a>. 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.</p> <p>For this morning, we’ll talk about:&nbsp;</p> <ol> <li>Whitefield's vision as a farmer-centric nationwide fiber processor. &nbsp;</li> <li>Discuss the background of the 5 companies that merged/acquired and the management team. &nbsp;</li> <li>Putting the farmer first.</li> <li>Building a supply chain from scratch.</li> </ol>