Hemp: the old new supercrop
HEMP could become a more common feature of the countryside, our diets and everyday life, thanks to a new £1.1m research partnership.
HEMP could become a more common feature of the countryside, our diets and everyday life, thanks to a new £1.1m research partnership.
Longer days and warmer temperatures are signs that planting season is around the corner for hemp growers.
A new cooperative research and development agreement between Agricultural Research Service scientists and the Midwest Bioprocessing Center aims to develop a new market for hemp.
The “huge potential” of legal cannabis crops is being explored by East Anglian farmers – who are also calling for regulatory changes to unlock the versatile plant’s full commercial value.
Hemp industry members are cheering Idaho for becoming the last state in the U.S. to legalize industrial hemp, making the crop now legal to produce in every state in the union, more than two years after the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp as a commodity crop.
Rarely a day goes by that Greg Nicholas says he isn’t asked about his “pot farm.” Some are joking, but more often than not, they believe Nicholas is growing marijuana on his hemp farm outside of Clear Lake.
It’s not just as medicine that cannabis is advertised as being a cure-all, though. Hemp, the version of cannabis that won’t get you high, is being touted as a potential wonder crop.
Despite still grasping on to its position as a luxury fashion material, furs have undoubtedly fallen out of public favour in recent decades as animal rights activism has become more common