News
The News category provides comprehensive reporting on the most significant internal updates and industry-wide announcements impacting the industrial hemp sector. This resource covers a wide range of essential topics, including state-level regulatory changes, research breakthroughs from Michigan universities, and strategic shifts within the marketplace. By offering consistent and accurate information, this category ensures that industry stakeholders remain prepared to respond to the complexities of a rapidly growing bio-economy.
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CBD Product Safety and Standardization Act of 2021
by Dave Crabill
/ February 18, 2022
When Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, it explicitly legalized the sale of hemp and its derivatives such as CBD. Farmers across the nation relied on this government action, and […] …
2021 U.S. Hemp Production Report: $824 Million Industry Still Finding Its FootingUSDA data reveals the current state of American hemp—and why the future belongs to fiber and grain.With mandatory reporting […] …
Michigan takes a proactive step for hemp. House Bill 5058 amends the state’s Food Law to clarify that food and dietary supplements are not considered “adulterated” simply because they contain […] …
JOI Guitars creates first-ever acoustic guitar from Hemp Wood
by Dave Crabill
/ May 24, 2021
We learn about the creation of a guitar from HEMPWOOD. This guitar blends the age old tradition of farming with acoustic guitar craftsmanship, crafted into the world’s first traditionally built […] …
How To Grow Your Hemp Business Through A Full-Service Banking Relationship
by Dave Crabill
/ May 20, 2021
Tom Lineen is the Co-Founder and CEO at West Town Payments. With over 20 years of payment solution expertise, he effectively navigates and advocates for compliance-driven and traditional business verticals, […] …
Congressional House Resolution 841. This bipartisan measure helps ensure the FDA recognizes CBD products as dietary supplements. …
Evergreen Consulting Group, on behalf of DTE, launched an energy efficiency offering specific to indoor grow houses across the DTE service territory in Michigan. …
Harvest is behind us for 2020 if you grow outdoors. At least I hope so! What is an “unprecedented” year is unfolding with a bunch of news that is too […] …
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently issued an Interim Final Rule on hemp which, among other things, could potentially criminalize the hemp extraction process. …
Progress for Hemp as Animal Feed
by Dave Crabill
/ August 18, 2020
The process to gain Federal approval for animal feed ingredients through the FDA-Center for Veterinary Medicine requires both; clinical animal feed trials for each target species and detailed analysis of […] …