Terry is a career Seedsman holds a BS degree in Agronomy from Colorado State University. Terry is now the Sales Director for Kanda Hemp, representing the Kanda line up of outstanding hemp varieties for North America. He has worked in the Seed Industry with several crops in Research, Breeding, Product Development, Production, Quality Assurance and Technical Sales.
The majority of Terry’s career was spent in the vegetable seed industry primarily in sweet corn development in Plant Breeding working at first as an Assistant Breeder then as a Breeder for Sunseeds, Mesa Maize, Centest, and HM Clause. He also worked in Purity and Multiplication in malting Barley for Busch Ag and in Strawberry Breeding for Driscoll Strawberry Associates prior to Industrial Hemp.
Terry worked in the Colorado Hemp regulatory program for 3.5 years starting in 2015 as the Hemp Certified Seed Specialist and SME for the Colorado department of Agriculture in the pre-2018 Farm bill era of industrial hemp in Colorado.
Before joining Kanda Hemp, Terry served as the Vice President of a different hemp
seed company. In this role, he was instrumental in areas such as Operations, Production, Logistics, Inventory Management, Technical Sales, Agronomy, Quality Assurance, and Seed & Hemp Regulatory Compliance.
Terry is a longtime supporter of hemp, is happy to see hemp being grown in large scale production and takes pride in helping Growers to be successful with industrial hemp crops. He enjoys all the recent developments in hemp nationwide that are growing the hemp industry and is enthusiastic to see hemp acres continue to grow in the upcoming years for the betterment of mankind.