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 …
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 »
