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Tricks of the Trade (Show)
After exhibiting at hundreds of trade shows since 1984 in the U.S., Canada, England, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, including many years exhibiting hemp foods even in the U.S. Embassy in London...
Trade Promotion Ideas
Here are three trade promotion tools, two by me and the other by Rick McKelvey. The Rella and HempNut pages are what we used to get our foods into hundreds...
Hempseed as a Nutritional Resource: An Overview
By HFA Advisor Dr. J.C. Callaway, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kuopio. 8 pages, 2008. FREE for HFA members, join today!...
Weekly Financial Update Tool
Use this tool to calculate standard financial ratios and metrics, and track them week-to-week. Excel file, by Richard Rose. I used it for years to manage my fast-growing Inc 500...
New Product Info Grid
This is the tool I used for the 150 new food products we introduced over the years, to communicate the details wholesale customers needed. 1 page, by Richard Rose. FREE...
HACCP Plans from FDA
Writing your food company’s Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan is not just a good idea, it’s now required by FDA. Here is the plan suggestions FDA issued in...
Hemp as Food at High Latitudes (2002)
By HFA Advisor Dr. Jace C. Callaway PhD. FREE for HFA members, join today!...
Financial Projections Template (Historic Model, 3-Year
Here’s another financial forecasting tool, written by unknown. It’s fairly detailed and complex, maybe too much so for most start-ups. The other cashflow model here might be better for you...
Generic Hemp Food Company Forecasts + Cashflow
Here’s a great tool for a hemp food start-up needing to write financial forecasts including cashflow, often for investors or the bank. It’s the one I often used for HempNut...
Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS) Analysis
This is the tool I used to manage COGS for HempNut, Inc., thus margins and ultimately pricing. By Richard Rose, Excel file. FREE for HFA members, join today!...
Hempseed Oil Nutrition Details (2009)
By HFA Advisors Dr. Jace C. Callaway and Dr. David W. Pate. 29 pages, PDF. FREE for HFA members, join today!...
On Heating of Hempseed Oil
Here is a study published on the heating of hempseed oil by the Journal of the International Hemp Association in 1998 by Dr. Helga Mölleken, and a rebuttal to it...
GRAS Hempseed Files
This PDF consolidates all the files FDA released regarding its acceptance of Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) exemption for hempseed, hemp protein powder, and hempseed oil as foods, submitted by...
Food Development With Hemp (Hemp Nut, Hempseed oil, and CBD)
Practical advice for chefs and product developers on how to use primary hemp products to develop new foods or dishes. By Richard Rose, 6 pages, PDF. FREE for HFA members...
The HempNut Cookbook (both editions, 2000/2004)
Here’s a free download of The HempNut Health and Cookbook and The HempNut Cookbook, both editions combined. By Brigitte Mars and Richard Rose, 2nd edition edited by Christina Pirello. 200...
The HempNut Book (2020)
This is the original version of the 2nd edition of The HempNut Cookbook except without the recipes, but including a Glossary with 48 terms and full Bibliography with 514 references...
FDA Food Labeling Guide
This is a Food Labeling Guide from the U.S. FDA, issued January 2013. It has all the details on label compliance for foods, per FDA. 132 page PDF, 8.7 megs...
New Food Product Label Checklist
Need a reminder of what goes on your food label? Use this to prevent costly mistakes, I did for years. This 1-page checklist could save you expensive mistakes you catch...
Aseptic Hemp Milk
The following are my notes regarding aseptic (UHT) hemp milk production, from 1997 (test run) then again from 2019 (pre-run meeting). You might find these notes handy if you decide...