France has rapidly emerged as a major exporter of industrial hemp raw materials after decades in which most production stayed inside the country, according to a new sector overview from […]
France emerges as Europe’s dominant exporter of industrial hemp raw materials Read More »
Europe’s CBD industry is emerging from the novel foods era smaller, weaker and stripped of many of the companies that fueled the sector’s early boom. What began as a regulatory
Europe’s CBD casualties mount as novel foods process radically reshapes the market Read More »
INTERVIEW: Maximiliano Baranoff is Director of Innovation & New Businesses at Argentina-based IHS Grupo, where he leads strategic initiatives across seed development, varietal validation, industrial hemp value chain design, and
Where scale begins: ‘If growers can access reliable genetics, the industry accelerates’ Read More »
Moldova has approved a long-awaited regulation governing the authorization, cultivation, monitoring and processing of industrial hemp for the production of seeds and fiber. Flowers remain subject to Moldova’s narcotics controls,
Moldova sets hemp framework to rebuild fiber and seed value chains, boost innovation Read More »
The long-delayed U.S. Farm Bill is finally moving, but the version passed last week does little more than adapt to a hemp reset already underway after Congress moved last November
Farm Bill draft eases some rules, imposes others on hemp fiber and grain, squeezes CBD Read More »
The original draft of Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr’s Lawful Hemp Protection Act (LHPA) amending the 2018 Farm Bill, which surfaced earlier this month, offers at least a little hope that
Draft bill in U.S. would wipe out intoxicants, rescue CBD, but what about ‘true hemp’? Read More »
INTERVIEW: Alex Teodorescu leads the commercial development of natural fiber processing systems at Cretes (CREative TEchnical Solutions). Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in machine building, he brings together expertise
Fiber projects should be ‘designed from the start around multi-stream valorization’ Read More »
Update and clarification: This story has been updated to reflect terminology used in Chinese commodity reporting, where fibers labeled as “hemp” may be classified within broader bast-fiber categories. This resulted
China cuts bast fiber imports by half, signaling volatility in key global market Read More »
As hemp fiber growers and processors look for stacked revenues from whole-stalk usage, a new peer-reviewed study suggests some waste materials could become inputs for higher-value manufactured goods. The team
New fiber study shows hemp byproducts could boost whole-plant processing revenues Read More »
Companies that have poured hundreds of thousands into the UK safety review for CBD now face the likelihood that approvals won’t come through the national system before regulatory control reverts
Europe’s CBD bottleneck tightens as UK pathway stalls before EU regulatory handover Read More »
