Canadian firm raises $3.3 million to develop hemp cleaning wipes
Bast Fibre Technologies Inc. (BFTi) of Canada said it has sold $3.3 million (CA$4.5 million) worth of equity to Natural Products Canada (NPC) to finance…
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Meeting the extraction needs of entrepreneurs, with small CBD batches
PODCAST (15 min.): Radek Stanek, CEO at Trumf International in the Czech Republic, talks about the extraction needs of small, entrepreneurial companies and the 25 year…
View from Bogotá: ‘The hemp opportunity goes way beyond CBD’
INTERVIEW: Manuel Baselga is a public affairs executive and social entrepreneur with 15+ years’ operational experience in over 25 emerging countries, mainly across Latin America…
Hemp programs approved for U.S. states of Georgia, Iowa
Two traditional agriculture states in the USA have had their hemp programs approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The southeastern state of Georgia,…
U.S. state will manage hemp program via blockchain platform
A company in the U.S. state of Vermont has opened a blockchain-based platform for hemp buyers and sellers, aiming to smooth the process of secure…
Jersey Hemp gets £2 million boost from private investor group
Private investors including Bernard Fairman of the UK’s Foresight Group venture capital firm, have invested £2 million ($2.68 million) in Jersey Hemp. The partners say…
Micro decorticator goes into production, and is now on sale
The HurdMaster Micro Decorticator, a small-scale fiber processing unit designed by Industrial Hemp Latvia (IHL) founder and entrepreneur Kristaps Eglitas, is now in production and…
U.S. firm has target to process 2 million pounds of biomass
Colorado-based Paragon Processing said it will take on 250 workers as it opens an industrial-scale hemp processing facility near Colorado City in the south central…
Hemp harvest in USA could hit 138,000 acres, trade group predicts
An estimated 115,000-138,000 acres (46,000-56,000 ha) of hemp will be harvested in the USA this year, after farmers were licensed to grow 511,442 acres (207,000…
Two crops per year possible in Australia’s NT, officials say
Hemp stakeholders in Australia’s Northern Territory say they hope to take advantage of conditions that allow for two crop cycles annually, after the NT Parliament…