May 17th, 2017 - The University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy is planting more hemp this year at the school’s Belknap Campus. This is officially the center’s second hemp crop — the first was planted last August and yielded...
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July 23rd, 2015 - Canada's North American market leadership in hemp production is at risk. While commercial hemp production in Canada began in 1998 and Canada currently grows approximately 100,000 acres annually, competition from the U.S. is quickly...
April 15th, 2015 – A Georgia-based company is testing hemp as an alternative feedstock to timber-based wood chips for conversion into bio-coal. Vega Biofuels Inc. specializes in converting organic materials such as woodchips into bio-fuels for energy...
May 6th, 2014 - We’ve heard about the promise of hemp before: Its fibers can be stronger than steel. Its seeds make for antioxidant-loaded superfood for you and your chickens. It can compete with fossil fuel as a viable alternative energy source. But ever...
July 22, 2011 - The hemp plant is the key to the revolution in reducing our energy economic costs to individuals and our environment. The bottom line in this change is all based on the financial numbers plugged into a mathematical equation that results...
January 25, 2010 - Hemp was among the first crops to be cultivated, and historically it ranks among the most widely cultivated annual crops. Today industrial hemp is enjoying a renaissance in many countries. It is increasingly recognized as a valuable,...
October 7, 2010 - Of all the various uses for Cannabis plants, add another, “green” one to the mix. Researchers at University of Connecticut (UConn) have found that the fiber crop Cannabis sativa, known as industrial hemp, has properties that make...
August 12, 2010 - The title probably should say, "Why hemp could have saved the world all along," because the plant should never have been banned in the first place, and its prohibition has led to untold suffering around the globe. If we—the global...
April 16, 2010 - It’s hard to be a consistent political conservative in 2010. New information and biting criticism from the left are exacerbating a great clash between the principles of free-market capitalism and the social conservatism that wins...
A descendant of hemp farmers and curator of the Kentucky Hemp Museum & Library, Craig Lee knows hemp is a superior crop choice for cellulosic ethanol production – the next wave in eco-friendly fuels. Hemp hurds contain 70% cellulose. Also, hemp...
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