Welcome to the Cannabis Cautilance Podcast. I'm your host, Cadd Hussey of Kiss Organics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of growing from a science-based perspective

and drawn top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge.

My guest this week is Dr. Nicole Gochay. She is a professor and extension specialist at the

University of Kentucky.

Her program focuses on disease management of specialty crops, including hemp. In her extension

role, she develops educational and outreach programs to help growers manage disease through

identification, understanding of pathosystems, and integration of management strategies.

Her research program focuses on a range of hemp diseases, including fusarium head blight.

Dr. Goethe earned her Bachelor of Science in Horticultural Science and her PhD in Plant Pathology

from Louisiana State University.

She joined the UK College of Agriculture in 2011 and began working with industrial hemp in 2014.

There will be a link on the podcast page to access her resources and research.

Now on to the show.

Hi, Nicole.

Thanks for coming on the show today.

Hello, how are you?

I'm good. I'm really excited to talk to you today.

I've seen on LinkedIn that Paul Coxon, who's been on the show before, had linked to some of your research. So I reached out to you directly and you were so kind to take my message, messages.

And can we just start off telling listeners a little about yourself and then we can talk a little about your research?

Okay, sure.

I am a plant pathologist, which means I study disease.

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