Multi-cropping combine adds technology that strips plant tops
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…
Farming
Michigan company gets grant for hemp-based soil research
Michigan-based Heartland Industries has received a $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in support of Hemp4Soil, a soil innovation program. The three-year…
Pot farms hiding behind hemp in Oregon called ‘military-weapons zones’
Oregon officials say illegal marijuana operations in some rural areas of the state are financed by foreign criminal gangs and drug cartels whose strategy is…
Licenses advance Uruguay firm’s business model supporting Lat-Am small farms
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…
Lack of clear, complete regulations holding back Italian operators
Italian leaders need to understand the enormous potential of hemp and set a clear and complete regulatory framework to harvest its economic and environmental benefits,…
European fiber, seed show promise; key derivatives seen bottoming out
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…
Working her own farm helps keep Cornell hemp researcher grounded
INTERVIEW: Heather Grab is Senior Lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science where she teaches and mentors students in the Hemp Science Master’s…
THC increase will loosen up farm supports for European growers
An increase in the THC level for industrial hemp crops to 0.3% will ease the path to EU agricultural support programs for European farmers beginning…
Hemp probed to clean land in South Africa’s toxic gold mining areas
A South African researcher is looking into the potential of hemp farming to clean the soil in abandoned, highly-polluted former gold mining areas, and how…
Grant backs German carbon-tracking startup as it enters fundraising
German startup HempConnect is entering an initial fundraising campaign as it continues to develop a suite of advanced Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tools that collect…
