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Patrick Atagi

Patrick Atagi is President and CEO of the National Industrial Hemp Council (NIHC), a Washington, D.C.-based hemp industry trade association, and a veteran agricultural policy executive.

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Sep 4, 2026

Industrial Hemp Podcast

Industrial Hemp Podcast

Seed to Style: Inside the NIHC Summit with Patrick Atagi

Sep 4 · 24m

Eric HurlockHOST

13:43

Can you talk about sort of like what energy is going to be there or what difference we're going to feel this year compared to maybe summits in the past?

Patrick AtagiGUEST

13:51

Yeah, it's, you know, we've had our initial meeting in Portland, Oregon.

Patrick AtagiGUEST

13:57

That was a reason, you know, Oregon for many reasons.

Patrick AtagiGUEST

14:00

You know, it was a very political meeting.

Patrick AtagiGUEST

14:01

You know, we had Undersecretary Greg Eibach there.

Patrick AtagiGUEST

14:05

We had senators there, you know, very, very high political profile, you know, after the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill and trying to get things straightened out.

Patrick AtagiGUEST

14:15

And then subsequently, you know, we had meetings in Oregon.

Eric HurlockHOST

17:06

What is this? This sounds pretty like a billionaire is showing up.