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Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 1:08 pm With The America’s Cup due to start in a few days’ time, innovators from a very different sphere have been wondering how long it could be before New Zealand could be competing in a boat entirely built from hemp, with the crew eating high-energy, nutritious hemp-infused foods and wearing high-performance hemp kit? Industrial hemp (iHemp) is from the same family as cannabis, but from different cultivars and without the psychoactive effects. Having historically fallen out of favour, it’s rapidly finding its place in the world again, due primarily to its e...

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Agriculture will be hosting a virtual Hemp Summit Tuesday. The free online event will take place from 9 am to noon with

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Quality seed is an essential part of any production system. Yields, disease and pest resistance, drought resistance, and stand uniformity are just a few of the many value traits targeted in crop seed development. Hemp will undergo considerable transformation over the coming decade as competent professionals apply rigor to the development of hemp seed genetics. Hemp farmers continue to suffer at the mercy of unscrupulous or incompetent seed sellers. Seed breeders have primarily focused on cannabinoids, in lockstep with that burgeoning, volatile segment. Others, like New West Genetics, have lev...

Hurdles still remain for rooting North Florida's hemp industry Tallahassee Democrat 12/20/2020 Karl Etters, Tallahassee Democrat Replay Video UP NEXT The first year of Florida’s hemp industry was one of trial and error on the ground, but the projections that it will become a green boom could mean a shift in the Panhandle’s agricultural scene. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried said the first 8 months of cultivation since the state developed its program is only expected to get larger heading into 2021. This year, the state approved 22,000 acres for hemp – t...