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State’s first hemp harvest exceeds what farmers can market – Alton Telegraph
Pat Morris The Center Square Published 1:45 pm CDT, Saturday, May 23, 2020 Nathaniel Kamp displays freshly harvested hemp plants earlier this fall in his first season of growing the plants in Calhoun County last year. Because of flooding, at times he and his wife, Jacqi Beachler, needed a boat to reach their crop. less Nathaniel …
USDA Denies Coronavirus Benefits For Hemp Farmers And Blocks Reevaluation Requests – Marijuana Moment
A bipartisan coalition of 34 state and territory attorneys general are urging Congress to pass coronavirus relief legislation that includes language protecting banks that service marijuana businesses from being penalized by federal regulators. The case they lay out runs directly counter to seemingly coordinated statements by GOP lawmakers in opposition to the banking provision’s inclusion …
CV Sciences Reports First Quarter Earnings, Farmers Reflect on Lessons Learned in 2019: Week in Review – Hemp Grower
Just days after Collective Growth Corp. had publicly announced its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission March 2, chairman and CEO Bruce Linton and co-founder Geoff Whaling set off to begin fundraising. They, along with CFO Tim Saunders, were aiming to raise $150 million by the end of March to make their initial …
Hemp Agronomist, IPM Expert Talk Farmer Tips During Virtual Event – Greenhouse Grower
Imperial Seedlings hosted its American Hemp Farming Expo 2020 event last week, kicking off the 2020 cannabis industry live event season with what promises to be the first of many virtual event presentations for industry participants in the post-COVID-19 professional networking world. I found time between helping the team virtually get our June issue of …
Going into the 2020 hemp season, farmers warn, “stay out of hemp” – messenger-inquirer
Industrial hemp’s first federally legalized year was a wild one, especially in Kentucky. By March 15, the 2020 hemp license deadline, Kentucky farmers were still sitting on tens of thousands of pounds of hemp biomass that they couldn’t give away. Major hemp processors such as Winchester-based GenCanna and Lexington-based Elemental Processing declared bankruptcy and hemp …
198 Farmers Applied for Licenses in Ohio’s First Year of Hemp Industry – Hemp Grower
While hemp production applications opened in Texas just two months ago, Panda Biotech, a Dallas-based hemp fiber and cellulose processing company, is working quickly to build up the state’s fiber industry before the company kicks into full gear in 2021. The company has announced it is donating more than 60 tons of approved hemp fiber …
Hefty Hemp Seed Donation For Texas Farmers – HempGazette
Texas’s Panda Biotech has announced it is donating more than 60 tons of approved hemp seed for fiber crops to Texas agricultural producers. That’s a lot of seed – there’s around 27,000 hemp seeds per pound, so 60 tons would work out to 3,240,000,000 seeds. There doesn’t seem to be any nasty gotchas associated with …
Bitterroot hemp farmer hopes for bumper crop – NBC Montana
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Verde Leaf ™ Holds First Workshop of 2020 for 40 New Hemp Farmers – Yahoo Finance
COLUMBIA, S.C., April 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Verde Leaf ™ held its first educational workshop of the year on February 19, 2020. The one-day interactive session provided updates on research, technology, safety, and production in the agricultural hemp space. (PRNewsfoto/Verde Leaf) More The workshop included panel discussions and a facilitated networking session. Demonstrations of various production systems …
Hemp farmers, CBD producers included in coronavirus emergency aid program – UPI News
DENVER, April 23 (UPI) — Hemp farmers and CBD companies are now eligible for COVID-19 related economic relief from the Small Business Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an industry group said. The Economic Injury Disaster Loans program was expanded to include hemp farmers under the Paycheck Protection Program Increase Act, passed by the …