ColorPoint currently grows 54,000 mother stock plants in its 2 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art, environmentally controlled and fully automated greenhouse facility. The mothers are used to produce clones for the network of farmers growing outdoors for AgTech Scientific and for indoor flower production in the greenhouse year-round. ColorPoint currently grows 54,000... Read more

Cross-pollination remains a threat to hemp and marijuana farmers, no matter how much care they take to prevent the situation. (Photo courtesy of Sam Robison) (A version of this story appeared earlier at Marijuana Business Daily.) Outdoor marijuana and hemp farmers are increasingly coming to loggerheads over pollen drift,... Read more

Farmers and ancillary hemp businesses are not happy with the THC testing standards outlined within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) interim federal rules for hemp production. The rules require that hemp crops not exceed 0.3% total THC, which is derived from the sum of delta-9 THC and THCA content,... Read more