HempToday.net Cannabis biochar and carbon credit project aims to boost farmers in Ecuador’s Amazon A cannabis farming cooperative in Ecuador’s northern Amazon will work with German specialists to optimize biochar production for carbon dioxide... Read more...
HempToday.net Mixed-bag USDA hemp report for 2023 leaves stakeholders little to cheer about Income from hemp flowers bounced back slightly last year while fiber growers saw the value of their outputs fall sharply even though total fiber... Read more...
HempToday.net Hemp stakeholders buoyed by changes in UK, but tight restrictions remain The UK government has doubled the licensing period for hemp growers to six years and loosened rules for where crops can be grown, but other tight... Read more...
HempToday.net Hemp food, building materials are planned outputs by startup in Alberta, Canada An industrial alliance in eastern Alberta, Canada is building out a hemp supply chain to develop business in the fiber and grain sectors. Several... Read more...
HempToday.net Genetically modified hemp that boosts CBG, eliminates THC is approved The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a genetically modified variety of industrial hemp designed produce high levels of the CBG... Read more...
HempToday.net Major hemp initiative in Australia abandoned as government fails to provide funding A multi-million dollar initiative to expand Australian hemp fields to 100,000 hectares in ten years has been abandoned. The initiative to study,... Read more...
HempToday.net EU-Italian funded project aims to develop hemp supply chains in Sicily Sicilian officials say they will launch a broad-based program aimed at developing local supply chains for industrial hemp. The initiative, “Canapa... Read more...
HempToday.net Proposed law to raise THC limit for hemp to 1.0% is nixed by lawmakers in Virginia Virginia lawmakers have turned back a bill that sought to increase the legal limit for THC in industrial hemp plants to 1.0% and ease state... Read more...
HempToday.net Two new methods can speed up testing of hemp, marijuana for THC content Two research initiatives have resulted in new methods for measuring THC in cannabis plants and in downstream edibles that can help to clear a... Read more...
HempToday.net Oklahoma hemp task force won’t deal with flowers, likely leaving CBD to marijuana regulators A hemp task force being formed in Oklahoma would address only fiber- and seed-based products, likely leaving oversight of flower-based CBD and... Read more...