Columbia Hemp Trading Co. was established in September of 2018 and set out to service Oregon’s farming community by creating the first physical marketplace for hemp drying, extraction and trading. CHTC was envisioned by co-founder Billy Tosheff, a local vegetable and hemp farmer, who had observed nearly 20% of Oregon’s hemp lay rotten in the field due to the lack of critical infrastructure available to stabilize the biomass. With an objective of supporting Oregon’s farmers, CHTC opened its first drying facility in Corvallis, OR and successfully completed its 2018 harvest season where they dried 300 acres and has since produced 5 metric tons of full spectrum oil to date.
Now, with 2 drying facilities operational and a refinement center staged for commissioning in fall of 2019, CHTC and its industry leading management team is well positioned to dry and process 2,500 acres of Oregon’s 2019 hemp harvest while working to define the supply chain from genetics to bulk formulations.
