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‘People expected me to fail’: Black female hemp farmers discuss disparity in the industry

Featured Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 26, 2021 0

Jillian Hishaw (Editor’s note: This story is part of a recurring series of commentaries from professionals connected to the hemp industry. Jillian Hishaw is an agricultural strategist and former U.S. Department of Agriculture adjudicator of the Office to the Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights. She’s now founder and CEO... Read more

Hemp producers: USDA preparing for 2022 Census of Agriculture with sample content tests

Hemp Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 25, 2021 0

Hemp farmers may have seen something new in their mailboxes this winter, as federal agriculture officials prepare for the 2022 Census of Agriculture, which will include hemp farmers for the first time. Over the last two months, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service sent “content tests”... Read more

Federal judge hands Indiana producers a setback on smokable-hemp challenge

Featured Indiana Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 25, 2021 0

A federal judge in Indiana is reversing course on a state law banning smokable hemp, handing growers and processors another defeat as they seek to find a path to market for the most profitable part of the plant. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker told the Midwest Hemp Council... Read more

Customs and Border Protection accused of wrongly blocking trimmer components

Industrial Hemp News International News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 25, 2021 0

A Canadian manufacturing company that makes agricultural equipment for the marijuana and hemp industries is accusing U.S. Customs and Border Protection of wrongly blocking imports needed by its Washington state subsidiary to build a hemp-trimming machine. Keirton USA says that Customs agents seized last month in Blaine, Washington, calling... Read more

GoodHemp™ seed varieties earn AOSCA certification

Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 24, 2021 0

— Four varieties are among select few certified by Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies — DAVIS, Calif. (February 3, 2021) – Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.® (Nasdaq: RKDA), a leader in science-based approaches to enhancing the quality and nutritional value of crops and food ingredients, today announced that four of... Read more

Genetic editing offers hemp and marijuana companies a way to improve plant strains

CBD Featured Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 24, 2021 0

This story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily. The development of new genetic-editing technology offers cannabis companies a cost-effective way to make specific changes to marijuana and hemp plants – such as more disease resistance – without creating a genetically modified organism. The technology, known as Crispr-Cas9, will allow... Read more

Tom Vilsack confirmed in Senate as new US Secretary of Agriculture

Hemp Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 24, 2021 0

Three weeks after clearing his Senate agriculture committee hearing, the full Senate voted 92-7 Tuesday to confirm Tom Vilsack as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Vilsack, an Iowan, served in the same role for all eight years of the Obama administration, and oversaw the USDA during passage and implementation... Read more

Study: Most high-CBD hemp plants are 90% marijuana, genetically

CBD Hemp Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 23, 2021 0

High-CBD plants inherit approximately 90% of their genes from marijuana, according to a new cannabis genomics study by the University of Minnesota and hemp breeding company Sunrise Genetics. The collaborators assembled a complete genome from a new cannabis variety and also examined several different cannabis varieties. They found that... Read more

Hemp in US animal feed is one step closer to fruition

Featured Hemp Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 23, 2021 0

In the United States currently, humans can eat foods made from hemp – yet we can’t legally eat meat or eggs from animals that have eaten hemp. But with recent action by the Hemp Feed Coalition (HFC), a Fort Collins, Colorado-based nonprofit seeking to gain federal approval for hemp... Read more

Levi’s teams with Danish fashion brand to roll out hemp denim

Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics February 23, 2021 0

Levi’s is teaming with a Danish fashion brand, GANNI, to offer denim jeans, jackets, dresses and tops made of cottonized hemp. The collection promotes the items as more sustainable than cotton-based denim. “The hemp used to make the fabric is all rain-fed with a proven lower footprint than conventional... Read more