Shipment to Holland marks first exports to Europe from Latin America
A Paraguayan food maker is exporting 20 tons of certified organic hulled hempseed in a first food shipment to Europe. Minister of Agriculture and Livestock,…
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2000: Exposing hemp to millions on CNN
Celebrating Hemp History Month [Last in a Series] – Do you remember the day after the Gore v Bush election, November 8, 2000? Everyone went…
1999: Selling to a skeptical hemp industry
Celebrating Hemp History Month – WINTER 1999: Only 20 years ago, I actually had to sell the notion of shelled hempseed as food to a…
1999: Largest hemp food ad campaign ever
Celebrating Hemp History Month – How did the hemp food industry go from zero to hero in just twenty years, 90% of Canadian hemp today?…
1998: Hemp food association guides budding industry
Celebrating Hemp History Month – [Natural Foods Merchandiser, October 1998] – “The drug-testing industry thinks hemp seed foods should be banned because they will make…
Italian stakeholders parry in struggle to free the entire plant
Italian hemp association Federcanapa is pushing back against provisions under consideration by the government the group says contravene European law and ignore a landmark decision…
1997: High Times gives first Hemp Achievement Award
Celebrating Hemp History Month 2021 – May 1997 | Richard Rose, founder, owner, and Le Grand Fromage of Rella Good Cheese Co. (formerly Sharon’s Finest)…
1995: Seasoned entrepreneurs join startups in hemp
Celebrating Hemp History Month – [Details Magazine, April 1995] – “For all the new start-ups, there are also seasoned entrepreneurs venturing into hemp. Richard Rose is…
1994: National distribution proves challenge
Celebrating Hemp History Month – In 1994, the state of hemp foods was dry grocery products such as chips, seeds and baking mixes. No perishables, no frozen….
1992: Putting hemp food in the spotlight
[First in a Series] Celebrating Hemp History Month – The seeds for the modern-era hemp industry in the USA were planted in the 1990s. In…
