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
environmental and health benefits.
Hemp has a wide
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 leveraged microbiology and statistical analysis in the development of novel, multipurpose varieties. Wendy Mosher joined a panel discussion at the winter Hemp Summit on Jan. 14 and relayed the companyâs accomplishments, and goals to develop hemp crop genetics. Her focus on dual-purpose crops places New West at the leading edge of sustainable hemp production in the U.S.