The 2017-2018 season of the Great Falls Forum continues on Thursday, October 18th, featuring Dan Thayer, President, Thayer Corporation, with a talk entitled “Marijuana. Moratoriums. Massive hemp farms. How advanced cultivation techniques are changing agriculture on a world-wide scale.” The program will take place from 12 noon to 1 PM in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library.
In his great Falls Forum presentation Dan will briefly map the history of hemp and cannabis cultivation and explain how those two crops are reshaping agriculture worldwide to an economically viable, sustainable and scalable approach using the new know-how and technology to organically grow food with 1/30 of the land mass and 1/10 the water.
For more information, visit http://lplonline.org/events/great-falls-forum-with-dan-thayer/
The Great Falls Forum is a monthly, brown-bag speaker series featuring statewide and regional leaders in public policy, business, academia and the arts. The programs are free, open to all and no reservations are required. Coffee, tea and bottled water are provided for a donation at the event. The Forum is a co-sponsorship of the Sun Journal, Bates College, Maple Way Dental Care, and LPL.