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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Michigan Hemp Harvest Comes In, With Farmers High On Its Potential

/ November 11, 2019

hemp-field Rusty Peterson and Dave Crabill

While the rest of you stoners have been drooling over the dawning era of legal weed, Michigan’s hemp farmers just pulled their first legal crop of cannabis’ sober first cousin. […]

USDA Releases Rules!

/ October 29, 2019

19-9 hemp crop cbd flower Swartz Creek Michigan

Long awaited USDA Industrial Hemp Growing Rules are released. Michigan is excited for the future of growing hemp.

MIRS News Service Release

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/ October 22, 2019

media roundtable hemp

“People say you can just cast your seed on the ground and this stuff is going to grow, that it will grow like a weed, for all intents and purposes, […]

Gongwer Covered of Media Roundtable

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/ October 8, 2019

Gongwer Coverage Media RoundTable

Hemp Farmers Working Through First Michigan Harvest Hundreds of growers participating in the state’s hemp pilot program are starting the physically demanding harvest process where most of the profit could […]

Detroit Free Press Coverage of Media RoundTable

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/ October 8, 2019

Detroit free press

The leading statewide trade association representing industrial hemp today hosted a roundtable to review Michigan’s pilot hemp season and discuss the highs and lows of the state’s newest agricultural commodity. […]

Hemponomics 101

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/ June 27, 2019

iHemp Michigan was launched prior to the passing of the 2018 US Farm Bill and the timing of our first event couldn’t have been better in January 2019. Since then […]

MDARD Update on 2019 Michigan Grow

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/ June 8, 2019

mdard update

Michigan was poised to take advantage of the 2018 US Farm Bill with the legislation passed in 2014, so we are off and running! MDARD released their Industrial Hemp Ag […]

MSU Bulletin on Industrial Hemp

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/ June 1, 2019

msu bulletin

MSU Extension has recently released an introductory bulletin about growing industrial hemp in Michigan, E3402 Industrial Hemp Production in Michigan.  This effort has been led by Dr. Kurt Thelen.  Other people […]

MSU Extension Educational Industrial Hemp Seminar

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/ May 22, 2019

About sixty people interested in hemp attended the educational seminar in Benton Harbor. Many in the room are iHemp members. Eric reviewed the history and uses along with some interesting […]

USDA Issues First Certification for Organic Hemp

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/ May 13, 2019

usda organic hemp

While many turn to CBD to avoid the many side effects of traditional medicine, you have to wonder what is in the CBD your buying. There have been many well-covered […]