By Richard Rose For U.S. hemp it’s time to get real, time for action, not platitudes. Only legal three years now, acreages harvested are falling, a third of the crops are noncompliant, […]
U.S. Hemp: Time to move beyond the platitudes, focus on seed and fiber Read More »
An amendment that puts tight restrictions on hemp production in Portugal goes against European Union law and puts the country’s nascent industry in peril, stakeholders said after the legislation went
Stakeholders say amended law in Portugal wrongly targets flower producers Read More »
Italian hemp farmers can get up to €300 per hectare of hemp grown under a funding program recently set in motion. The Italian government earmarked €3 million in government funds
Italian farmers could get €300 per hectare under new funding program Read More »
Two Polish hemp varieties were top performers again in this year’s research trials by North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Carrington Research Extension Center. Henola, which is grown for food seed,
Polish hemp varieties lead grain and fiber trials in North Dakota 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 »
INTERVIEW: Food industry veteran Lisa Newmann is a founder and the CEO at Sazi Foods, a U.S. startup that is developing a line of hemp seed-based snacks. She has previously
Positioning hemp as a food ‘powerhouse’ is key to U.S. startup’s strategy Read More »
Oregon crop science company Phylos said it will supply one million free hemp cultivation seeds to black, Native American and other minority farmers through targeted outreach efforts and the Oregon
Free seed initiative set Read More »
International standards group ASTM has established a method and guidelines for fast on-site quality assessment of hempseed. The standards are geared toward those who store hempseed for later processing into
New standard sets method for identifying seed that’s likely to spoil Read More »
Researchers in South Carolina say they have developed a hearty new hemp variety that can withstand weather that blew down crops tested in previous years. A team at Clemson University’s
South Carolina researchers say they’ve developed a stronger plant Read More »
An Australian research team aims to develop next-generation hemp genetics through a grant awarded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). Rachel Burton, from the University of Adelaide’s School of Agriculture,
Australian research team aims to develop new hemp varieties Read More »
