President-elect Joe Biden will nominate a familiar hemp overseer, Tom Vilsack, for U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Vilsack served in the same role for all eight years of the Obama administration and oversaw the USDA during passage and implementation of the 2014 Farm Bill, which allowed states to experiment with hemp production. Vilsack, an Iowan, was […]
University of South Florida researchers say CBD oil applied to strawberries can extend the fruit’s shelf life, potentially opening a new commercial end use for the hemp extract. A new study published in Postharvest Biology and Technology says “CBD oil has promising potential as an antimicrobial treatment to fresh produce.” USF researchers applied CBD oil […]
Photo courtesy Asheville Hemp Project Federal agricultural funding grantors are asking for hemp operators working toward transformational changes in the U.S. food and agriculture system to apply for research money to help develop the hemp supply chain. The program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has $150 million up […]
Get in-depth analysis on Latin America hemp and marijuana markets from MJBizCon’s Passholder Days. It’s all available to you on demand. The Mexican lower house has delayed a hemp and marijuana legalization bill until at least February. Local media reports that lawmakers say they need more time to study the bill. The current version legalizes recreational marijuana […]
Costa Rica’s government and the public are embracing the idea that industrial hemp can be a much-needed economic driver if legalized, but the question of allowing marijuana for medical use has been a harder sell. The last time Costa Rica lawmakers brought up a cannabis legalization measure for a vote was in 2016, but it […]
Florida’s agriculture chief predicts that hemp acreage in the Sunshine State will grow to about half the size of the state’s famed citrus acreage within three to five years. Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried said Tuesday that the state’s 22,078 acres of hemp this year will balloon to 300,000 by 2025, about half the size of […]
One of the nation’s largest chained retailers of health supplements, The Vitamin Shoppe, is the first national retailer to carry the full line of hemp-derived CBD wellness products from lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, according to Smith Falls, Ontario-based cannabis operator Canopy Growth Corp. Previously, the Martha Stewart brand, which was developed in collaboration with Canopy […]
Texas hemp field (Photo courtesy Texas Department of Agriculture) Texas hemp growers are wrapping up their first season with the new crop with a lot of optimism – but also a sense that the industry there won’t boom without some changes to the laws and some genetics improvements. The state has huge ambitions when it […]
Europe’s largest independent grower and processor of industrial hemp has teamed up with a Dutch bioplastics developer and a Dutch furniture manufacturer to make a recyclable, carbon-negative chair with a hemp fiber seat shell. Netherlands-based HempFlax was chosen by furniture producer VepaDrentea to contribute the raw material to its hemp chair line, the company said […]
This session and other MJBizCon 2020 content is available on demand. New leadership at the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Biden administration will result in the agency “taking another look at looming rules for a nationwide hemp regulatory network,” said Chris Walsh, CEO and president of Hemp Industry Daily and Marijuana Business Daily. Walsh […]
