First, a buoyant 2019 hemp harvest following the passage of the farm bill legitimizing hemp at the close of 2018 led to a massive oversupply. In 2020, almost everybody scaled back hemp acreage—acres of U.S. hemp grown in 2019 fell from a half-million acres to 291,000 acres, according to Vote Hemp.

Then, after a boisterous public meeting lasting hours in March 2019, the FDA proceeded to slow-walk CBD regulations and left everyone feeling uncertain—markets hate uncertainty. The USDA, meanwhile, issued an Interim Final Rule that left farmers feeling like felons. And the DEA—what are they still doing here?—asserted itself, even though the farm bill explicitly left them out, compelling the Hemp Industries Association to sue the drug warriors—again.

In Colorado, the capital of the cannabis kingdom, an early season snowstorm just before harvest killed off as much as 40% of some farmers’ fields.

And did you hear about the coronavirus pandemic? Supplements have done well, but consumers have seemingly traded in their CBD supplements for immune-enhancing ones. At bricks-and-mortar retail, CBD sales have been flat at best.

What’s a motivated, creative, innovative, passionate hemp CBD industry to do after all this whiplash?

The answers to these questions swirling around everyone’s minds will be revealed from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, at the Hemp Collective Virtual Summit II. Attendees can register for this free event here.

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If you are already registered on Spark Change for previous events, go here.

In this half-day Zoom-style meetup, you can learn the top things to know about today’s CBD Market. Sessions include:

The Hemp Collective Virtual Summit II is sponsored by market leaders Ananda Hemp, Balanced Health Botanicals, Beneficial Blends, Bluebird Botanicals, Charlotte’s Web, CV Sciences, EcoGen Laboratories, Green Roads, Korent Hemp CBD, MedTerra, Nutiva, Sorse Technology and Sunsoil CBD Oil.