extrakTALKS with Dr. Jon

How to Pitch Your Plan! So, you’ve decided to create your first hemp or botanical startup. You’ve planned out your location, what products you will make, what solvent you will use for extraction, and more. You have it all figured out! Or do you… What about your potential investors? Do you know how you'll pitch your business plan to them? This is a crucial step that many startups fail to prope...

The Top 5 Success Factors of CBD Brand Leaders continues! In our last episode, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson continued the conversation of CBD brand leader practices by discussing how to identify your personal regulatory path, and how to choose your best potential business partners. These steps are crucial to stay on track with your own geographic regulations in the hemp and CBD markets and to find...

The Top 5 Success Factors of CBD Brand Leaders continues! In our last episode, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson began the discussion by talking about the first steps in the top five CBD brand leader success factors - planning and getting your investors involved early. Now, they continue on to discuss how to understand your regulatory path and how to choose the right business partners. These are crucia...

Top5 Success Factors for CBD Brand Leaders. The CBD industry has undoubtedly offered a fantastic opportunity for entrepreneurs to create exciting and successful new brands. These CBD business opportunities are plenty and has opened the door for others to follow suit from a number of top CBD brand leaders. But, these CBD brand leaders did not rise to the top on a whim. There are a number of success...

The hemp plant is an incredibly versatile, useful plant for a plethora of applications. Through hemp processing, hemp can be harvested and used for a variety of purposes including industrial use in the form of textiles and fibers, or cannabinoid extraction like CBD, CBG and other plant components. The numerous uses of hemp continue to grow and all are achieved through using some form of hemp proce...

into consideration for a successful hemp grow. Factors like geographic location, daily weather, soil quality, and others will determine the overall quality, and quantity, of your harvest this season. If you want all the time and effort you put into your hemp crop during the growing season to be fruitful, or you need to learn how to harvest hemp for the first time, you need to pay close attention t...

What is the ultimate list of hemp strains? Believe it or not, not all hemp plants are created equal. Varying hemp strains can determine the formulation, effects and quality of a CBD extract. The reasons for this are plenty - varying levels of CBD content, terpenes located in the hemp strain, overall grow quality of a particular hemp strain - these are all factors in creating a particular hemp deri...

When it comes to the United States, the legality and regulation of CBD is relatively straightforward under the 2018 Farm Bill. In the EU, however, regulations of CBD vary greatly making GMP compliance a more complicated conversation overall. Much like the FDA, the European Medicines Agency has regulations in place that regulate the use of CBD as a food or medicine product, but depending on the cou...

Business partnerships in any industry can be as risky as they are lucrative. When it comes to choosing a partner in the CBD extraction industry, there are important factors to consider just like any other business opportunity. While each industry has its own set of guidelines, some mesh together with the hemp and cannabis industry including product handling and storage, health and safety precautio...

When it comes to CBD processing and the hemp extraction industry, investors have become increasingly interested in their involvement. With the CBD industry projected to grow by the billions within the next few decades, the potential for monetary gain as an investor in this industry is a promising prospect. Of course, as with any investment, there are a number of considerations to keep mind of befo...

Starting up a new business in any industry can be a daunting task, let alone an increasingly competitive atmosphere like the hemp and CBD industry. If you’re not careful, your plans to create a successful, profitable hemp processing business can crash and burn before you even get a foothold in the market. So, what should you take into consideration when diving into the hemp extraction industry? Ha...

Chromatography has become critically important for the widely popular formulations of CBD products including full-spectrum, broad-spectrum, and CBD isolate - all of which are increasingly desired in the growing hemp extract markets. With the ability to selectively manipulate various cannabinoids, terpenes and other materials from the plant matrix, there are a number of methods by which chromatogra...

There is no doubt that CBD has swept the world as one of the hottest cannabinoids from the hemp plant. With the introduction of the 2018 Farm Bill, a whole world of hemp derived products. So long as a product has a THC content below 0.3% any derivative of CBD is technically legal under this jurisdiction. However, another hemp derived cannabinoid is rapidly gaining popularity in the hemp extraction...

Bottlenecks are an issue within any business and inside any industry. These issues are never easy to solve, but there are always solutions. Inside the hemp and cannabis industry there are many potential areas in the process that can lead to bottlenecks. Fortunately for this industry, extraktLAB has created a solution to these problems with the igwLAB. igwLAB is a GMP-compliant, specialized manufac...

Product formulations are a critical part of the CBD extraction process, but sometimes it can get complicated. What is full spectrum distillate? How is it any different from broad spectrum distillate? And what about CBD isolate? All of these formulations have their place in the CBD industry and it is important to know what product is the best for each individual in order to create a profitable extr...

In this special episode of extrakTALKS, Dr. Jon sits down with Dr. Benjamin Caplan to discuss a number of health related topics in the hemp and cannabis industry. Dr. Benjamin Caplan of CED Clinic has served as Chief Medical Officer of Canna Care Docs overseeing more than 250,000 patients. He has a tremendous amount of experience helping patients with their illnesses including sleep, anxiety and p...

In this episode of extrakTALKS, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson discuss all the ins and outs of the distillation process. Listen as Dr. Jon simplifies this complicated, but crucial step in hemp and cannabis extraction including how distillation works, why it's important to create a quality product, wiped film distillation technology and extraktLAB's advanced wiped film evaporator: the clear...

In this episode of extrakTALKS, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson discuss the ongoing bottleneck of solvent removal with rotovaps and extraktLAB's fracTron three-stage falling film evaporator solution. Listen close to the pros and cons of traditional rotary evaporators, current falling film technologies, and why the fracTron is the most cutting edge technology in solvent removal.

Tinctures have become a staple product in the hemp extraction and CBD industry, but do you know how to make your own tincture? Join Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson as they walk through how to make the best tincture possible. You will learn about distillate and isolate formulations, how to use terpenes properly, and how tinctures are made safely and easily with the highest possible quality.

In this episode of extrakTalks, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson discuss all things hemp extraction from the past, to the present, and looking forward to the bright future of the hemp and cannabis extraction industry. Whether you're a startup in ethanol or supercritical CO2 extraction, or just interested in the world of extraction, you'll want to tune in to this episode to learn more about h...

Would you like to know your yearly operating costs using CO2 vs. Ethanol? What about what yield you will have from your hemp biomass? Good news! extraktLAB has a calculator for that! In this episode of extrakTalks, Dr. Jon and Randall discuss the launch of extraktLAB's Cannabis and Hemp Business Calculators library. Whether you're looking for a tincture dosage calculator, outdoor grow yi...

In this episode of extrakTALKS, Dr. Jon and Randall discuss everything you need to know about hemp processing facilities; where to start your business, what regulations you need to be aware of, inventory space, building requirements and much, much more. Tune in to find out the best advice to build, or improve, your own hemp facility.

In this episode of extrakTALKS, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson sit down with Melvin Welch, attorney and legal expert in the hemp and cannabis industry, to discuss the legality of industrial hemp and CBD. They discuss a variety of topics that farmers, processors and consumers should know including testing, permits, the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bill and how they impact legal status of CBD manufacturing and...

In this episode of No Holds Barred, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson have a rematch discussion on the topic of supercritical CO2 vs. ethanol as a hemp and cannabis extraction solvent. Dr. Jon still believes there is a clear winner when it comes to hemp processing and the solvent used. Listen now to find out which you should be using in your extraction process!

Testing, testing, 1,2,3! In this episode of extrakTalks, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson dive into the secrets of testing in hemp processing. Whether you are a farmer (hemp), grower (marijuana), manufacturer, producer or consumer, you need to hear these secrets about testing in the cannabis and hemp extraction industry and how it affects you today!