September 2022 - 27

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
From Ornamentals
to Hemp
Join Aaron Van Wingerden for his experiences as the founder
of Royale Botanicals, a wholesale industrial hemp cultivation
facility with its own, bred-in-house genetics. In this interactive
webinar, he will tackle similarities and differences between
growing ornamentals and hemp; cultivating superior hemp
genetics; promoting the superiority of clones over seedlings;
and tackling the hemp industry as a whole.
Join Aaron Van Wingerden for his experiences as the founder
ABOUT AARON
Aaron Van Wingerden is a third-generation greenhouse grower with over 20 years'
experience managing and growing in controlled environment greenhouses. He started
his fl oral greenhouse operation, Dutch Heritage Gardens, in 2006 that now encompasses
over 750,000 square feet of high-tech greenhouse and delivers millions of plants annually
to over 300 retail locations. The hemp division of their operation, Royale Botanicals, was
founded in 2017 and has grown and delivered over 10 million hemp clones to farmers and
growers nationwide. It has an extensive breeding program and has developed several
superior hemp genetics specifi c for fi eld-grown CBD production, and several strains for
premium smokable fl ower. Royale Botanicals recently launched its own consumer product
good lineup, featuring smokable hemp fl ower, elixirs, salves and other consumables.
PRESENTED BY
Aaron Van Wingerden,
Owner of Royale Botanicals
and Dutch Heritage Gardens
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
PRESENTED BY
Cannabis Economics &
What Growers Need
to Know
Join the authors of " Can Legal Weed
Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis
Economics " for some unadulterated
facts about the new legal segment of
an old industry. Dan Sumner and Robin
Goldstein will give a whirlwind tour of
the economic past, present, and future
of legal and illegal cannabis.
ABOUT DANIEL & ROBIN
Dan Sumner is a distinguished professor of agricultural economics at the University of California, Davis. He has spent
many years studying the consequences of government regulations for agricultural markets and much of the past decade
working with co-author Robin Goldstein on the book " Can Legal Weed Win, " assessing legal cannabis markets in the
context of taxes, regulations and competition from illegal cannabis. Sumner studied agricultural management at Cal Poly
and earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Goldstein is the director of the Cannabis Economics
group at the University of California, Davis and author of several other books as well. He is a graduate of Harvard College
and Yale Law School and has his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bordeaux.
&
Distinguished Professor of
Daniel Sumner,
Robin Goldstein,
Agricultural Economics at
UC Davis
Economics Group at UC Davis
Director of the Cannabis
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
Tales from the Greenhouse
& the Field
Join us for this panel discussion of experienced growers as
they discuss the real world of growing cannabis and hemp
both indoors and outside. Learn about the everyday issues that
growers face and how they deal with them to grow healthy and
profi table hemp and cannabis crops.
Panel
Discussion
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September 2022

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