hemp

A group of farmers, local legislators and researchers came out to Virginia State University's Randolph Farm on Aug. 17 to learn about the possibilities of growing industrial hemp in the state. Two years ago, the state authorized institutions of higher education to grow industrial hemp for...

A hemp industry will also be created to produce hemp-based products. Hemp is non-psychoactive (does not make a person "high") and able to produce about 50,000 products. Fortunately, local farmers will have a rotational crop added to their plots during seasons. From seed oil to cooking flour...

Every year in April, Jiang Xingquan sets aside part of his farm in northern China to grow cannabis. The size of the plot varies with market demand but over the last few years it has been about 600 hectares. Like every other hemp farmer in Hexin in Heilongjiang province near the Russian...

Researchers across the state are trying to figure out how to turn an old Virginia crop into a new, viable one. Industrial hemp cultivation was once common in Virginia but has been banned for the past 80 years. To discuss its potential, a first-of-its-kind Industrial Hemp Field Day was held...

What might be a big step for small farming just happened in the mountains -- a harvest of industrial hemp. N.C. State extension researchers worked at their facility in Waynesville on Friday, using a combine to gather grain from the first test plots. Industrial hemp can be used in many...

Faster than it dissolves in water, word is getting out about new CBD products in Omaha. "It's been kinda crazy," Donald Anderson, owner of CBD American Shaman, said. CBD is short for cannabidiol, one of more than 100 cannabinoids identified in the cannabis plant. Anderson just opened...

The Missouri Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman plans to file industrial hemp legislation again in 2018. State Sen. Brian Munzlinger, R-Williamstown, says Missouri is "missing the boat." "I was at the Southern Legislative Conference two weeks ago and Kentucky and South Carolina, they...

A growing market for industrial hemp as food, fiber and nutraceuticals is gaining ground in west central Minnesota and could find a place in Kandiyohi County. There's at least one field of hemp planted this year in Chippewa County and a food-grade processing facility is being established in...

A house fit for Grand Designs is under construction in Canberra's inner north. Once completed, the O'Connor knockdown rebuild will be carbon neutral, termite proof and fire resistant. And it's made of hemp. When home owner Rowan Woodburn approached designer Angela Knock to draw up plans...

Sen. Frank Ruff, Sen. Rosalyn Dance and Del. Tommy Wright joined approximately 200 interested Virginia residents who attended a summit held at Virginia State University Thursday devoted to hemp production and processing in Virginia. "It appears to be a crop that could be an additional source...

It's the latest health and nutrition "wow crop" to come out of our farmer's fields, but perhaps a bit misunderstood. Industrial Hemp is making a comeback after its debut during WWII, but now, the plant promises more uses than just rope and t-shirts. Just outside Callaway, Minnesota a...

Thomas Jefferson thought it necessary to "the wealth and protection of the country." Native American tribes grew it for centuries. And the U.S. government encouraged farmers to grow it "for victory" during World War II. But today, a plot of hemp could land its owner in jail. Since 1970, hemp...

Hemp is hip again in Pennsylvania, and researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are among a select group tasked with exploring the potential economic benefits to the Commonwealth of this important – yet maligned – crop. "To be on the forefront of industrial hemp research...

South Carolina farmers aren't exactly breaking down doors to get licenses to grow hemp. No one has applied for one of the initial 20 available licenses since the application process opened Aug. 1. It ends Sept. 15. The General Assembly agreed earlier this year to allow farmers to start...

A ruling that will clear the way for hemp to be manufactured as a food product is set to benefit a niche industry of growers following a decade-long fight. Industrial Hemp Association of Victoria president Lyn Stephenson, said the Council of Australian Governments ruling earlier this year...

There's a symbolism to having a festival supporting something that for so long was illegal at a state capitol building. Salem Hemp Festival celebrates its third year, and its second at the Oregon State Capitol, on Saturday, Aug. 26, and Sunday, Aug. 27, with two days of free entertainment...

The 24th Annual Conference of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) will be held Sept. 9-11 at the Lexington Convention Center, the Kentucky Chapter of the Hemp Industries Association (KYHIA) announced today. Experts, policy makers, farmers, researchers and entrepreneurs from around the world...

With 950 acres of crop ready for the reaper last year, Gregory Clark had a problem: finding enough John Deere combine harvesters — machines designed to harvest grain — to collect it all. Standing in front of dozens of farmers and other interested parties at Virginia State University's...

Hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) is projected to be a billion-dollar market in just three years, according to a new report by Brightfield Group. The data company estimates that hemp CBD sales have already hit $170 million in 2016 and a 55% compound annual growth rate over the next five years will...

Seventy years ago, Pennsylvania lost the last of its hemp crops as farmers made the switch to tobacco post-Prohibition. Fourteen farms that received imported seeds from a fledgling research project now are harvesting the cannabis plants. Pennsylvania Act 92 of 2016 allows researchers to...