Reading Time: 4 minutes New hemp promotion and research agency will collect checkoff from hemp producers for research, promotion and market development.
National agency to provide a new voice for hemp
New hemp promotion and research agency will collect checkoff from hemp producers for research, promotion and market development
Mapping the genetic development of hemp
Hemp has potential for many markets, from grain to construction materials like hempcrete, but the varieties need fine tuning
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alberta-grown hemp has potential for many markets, from grain to construction materials like hempcrete, but the varieties need fine tuning.
Hemp sector disappointed new report ignores deregulation
Leaders in Canada’s hemp industry were hoping an expert committee would recommend significant changes to hemp regulations so it could be treated the same as wheat, canola and other crops. That didn’t happen. Instead, the committee of experts reviewing the Cannabis Act barely mentioned hemp in its 91 page report published March 21.
Hemp variety trials on offer
Reading Time: < 1 minute To allow farmers the option to grow hemp for fibre, research was required on the best hemp varieties suited for fibre production through a variety trial project. This value-added research project was meant to identify hemp varieties to add to Health Canada’s list of approved cultivars. It was led by Canadian Rockies Hemp Corp. in […] Read more
More hemp processing is now underway in Alberta
Two companies are supplying a growing market for sustainable products ranging from building materials to cat litter
Reading Time: 4 minutes [UPDATED: Apr. 11, 2023] Canadian Rockies Hemp Corporation chief executive officer Aaron Barr says products are finally heading out the door of its plant in Bruderheim, Alta. *The company began construction in 2019 and was ready to start processing about eight weeks ago. “We ended up having about five months of extra additions to the […] Read more
Venture capitalists urged to check out Alberta ag tech
Hempalta and Livestock Water Recycling are two companies featured on influential Top 50 list
Reading Time: 3 minutes Two Alberta companies — one making hemp products and the other recycling livestock manure — are among the most investable clean tech ventures in the country. Hempalta Inc. and Livestock Water Recycling, both headquartered in Calgary, are two of eight ag-focused technology companies on the 2022 Foresight 50 list. The list is compiled annually by […] Read more
Ramping up: processing of Alberta crops gathers steam
Food, fibre and fuel facilities are coming on stream and that’s good news for producers
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ag-fuelled processing in Alberta – everything from hemp and pulses to renewable diesel – is gaining traction and opening new markets for producers. One of those is Canadian Rockies Hemp, which just opened the largest hemp fibre processing plant in North America at Bruderheim. The company’s products are used for textiles, building, pulp and paper […] Read more
Suddenly hemp fibre is in high demand as hempcrete use jumps
U.S. builders are using hempcrete more frequently due to its insulating properties and moisture tolerance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – The market for hemp fibre may be on its way up again and Jeff Kostuik of Verve Seed Solutions says it’s based on a part of the plant that used to be considered waste. At a crop demonstration in Manitoba this summer, he pulled apart a hemp stem and showed the hurd, […] Read more
Regulations, versatility pull hemp in different directions in West
Crop 'still struggling with reaching its full potential'
MarketsFarm — Accounting for 60 per cent of Canada’s 1,100 cultivation licenses as of 2020, according to Health Canada, Western Canada is the country’s most important region when it comes to hemp production. But while there are more products on store shelves, more cultivars than ever before and high prices for the crop, demand for […] Read more
Alberta poised to become hemp-processing powerhouse
Two hemp processors aim to open $70-million production plants in 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutes Alberta farmers will be growing a lot more hemp when two new proposed processing facilities open their doors in 2024. One is a $72-million hemp oil-processing operation to be built in a yet-to-be-determined location in southern Alberta while the other is a rare bird in the hemp sector — a facility that will process hemp […] Read more
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