As sustainability continues to go mainstream, industries are shifting priorities to focus on climate challenges and social impact in their strategic development plans. That’s a real opportunity for industrial hemp. […]
The first (real) business opportunity for hemp: Grow it, then burn it Read More »
Italian consortium Bio Hemp Farming has inaugurated a cryogenic processing center to turn out biomass for medical-grade CBD, adding a key component as it continues to develop consolidated whole-plant hemp
Italian consortium adds biomass facilities in expansion of whole-plant strategy Read More »
Germany’s Hanf Farm GmbH has added new technology to its Multi-Combine HC 3400, incorporating a stripper into the highly flexible hemp harvesting ensemble which has been crawling European hemp fields
Multi-cropping combine adds technology that strips plant tops Read More »
[First in a series of recaps on industry developments in 2021] As the CBD sector continues to suffer from a lingering bust after the market overheated in 2020, interest in
As prices plunge, interest in CBD cools Read More »
YVY Life Sciences of Uruguay said it received cultivation licenses for medical-grade cannabis to produce THC and CBD, making it the first company to hold such permits from the country’s
Licenses advance Uruguay firm’s business model supporting Lat-Am small farms Read More »
Prices and volumes for key hemp derivatives should soon bottom out and begin to pick up over the next year, according to Canxchange, the London-based commodities trading platform. Meanwhile, rising
European fiber, seed show promise; key derivatives seen bottoming out Read More »
Lithuanian hemp producers may now grow and sell hemp flowers on the domestic market after a new law took effect this month. But the changes have done little to cheer
Lithuania frees the hemp flower, but more changes are needed Read More »
Researchers in Italy have detected the presence of 154 pesticides and a number of heavy metals in samples of domestically grown hemp flowers, a worrying prospect for the smokable hemp sector. The
Italian study flags pesticides, metals in smokable ‘Cannabis light’ flowers Read More »
After a period during which prices stabilized, discounting has resumed in the isolates subsector, according to the Q4 2021 Benchmark Report from commodities trading platform Canxchange. Large orders of CBD
Prices for key hemp derivatives enter another slide, Canxchange reports Read More »
A project aimed at accelerating the use of hemp as a biorefinery crop is among 24 sustainability initiatives that have received funding from the UK government. The project, HEMP-30, being
UK project aimed at accelerating hemp as as biorefinery crop Read More »
