Southern Hemp News

By Heather Collins PHOTO: Hemp on the Slope, held on July 20 in Collbran, CO, drew 500 farmers, producers, manufacturers, advocates and others to Colorado’s Western Slope for a day of education, networking and information exchange as Colorado and the Western U.S. position as leaders in industrial hemp production. The rural town of Collbran, Colorado, located at the base of the Grand Mesa on the Western Slope, was alive on Saturday, July 20, 2019, in part due to the Hemp on the Slope summit that took place at beautiful Salt Creek Ranch. The Colorado Hemp Company, Salt Creek Hemp Co,  and Colorado…

Doing it the Right Way, from the Ground Floor Up By Will Carr Where is the hemp industry headed? What are we doing and why are we doing it? How does CBD fit into the marketplace? How does branding contribute to the evolution of hemp-derived consumer product goods? We have an incredible opportunity to do things the right way from the ground floor up. From the very beginning, we can make an impact in niche markets. We can steer the course of mass-retail products, forever changing the landscape of the marketplace. We can piece by piece, little by little, create…

By CanopyBoulder Thanks to the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill more, the hemp and CBD industry is increasingly normalized. You don’t have to look far beyond the shelves of CBD everywhere from gas stations to bookstores to know something big is coming. In fact, the industry is expected to grow to about $1.8 Billion by 2022. With this in mind, the benefits of making the leap into this space seem pretty clear. But isn’t everyone doing that? In an increasingly competitive space, here are some tips for making your entry into the space successful It’s not too late to…

As the hemp and CBD market continues to evolve at hyper-speed, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, Kroger, announced it is joining Walgreens, CVS, Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, Nieman Marcus and other major retailers that have all started carrying CBD products in their stores. Kroger, which made a “meaningful investment” in Boulder, CO-based natural foods chain Lucky’s Market, which itself is a leading seller of CBD products, announced on June 11 that it will now sell hemp-derived CBD topical products, including creams, balms and oils, in 945 Kroger-owned stores across 17 states, reported CNBC News, which referred to CBD as “one of the…

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2nd Annual Southern Hemp Expo Returns to Tennessee, Bringing Together the Biggest Names, Brands, Farmers, Investors and Experts in the Rapidly Growing Hemp Market Second Annual Southern Hemp Expo to Offer Business and Investment Conference, Hemp Farm Symposium, Exhibit Halls, Workshops and Demonstrations, Networking and Entertainment at the Williamson County AG Expo Park in Franklin, TN, Sept. 6-7, 2019 FRANKLIN, TN (June 5, 2019) – Following a wildly successful inaugural event that drew more than 4,000 people last year in Nashville, the 2nd Annual Southern Hemp Expo (SHE)—a robust and program-rich trade show structured specifically for the rapidly growing industrial, nutritional, and therapeutic…

By Ben Droz Last Friday, May 31, the FDA held its first ever, full day public meeting on Cannabis.  7am-6pm, the meeting is part of a Public Comment Period  for “Scientific Data and Information about Products Containing Cannabis or Cannabis-Derived Compounds” (Docket ID FDA-2019-N-1482)  https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FDA-2019-N-1482&fbclid=IwAR05aRmzKEcjdjqrDU80qZDgtNWe6ew9-QmFeOCkv-7oBg5p2skbESnrX6Y  This docket is accepting comments until July 2nd, and is a very important part of the FDA regulation process. A panel of 13 Senior FDA officials heard from some 140 people, live from the FDA building in Silver Spring.  The day kicked off with great testimony from hemp lobbyists Jason Amatucci and the Hemp Roundtable’s Jonathan Miller,…

One Organic Farmer Treats Hemp Grown for CBD Like a “Specialty Vegetable Crop” By Steven Hoffman Compass Natural The importance of certified organic in hemp agriculture cannot be overstated. Currently, nearly 80,000 acres are in hemp production in the U.S., and very few of them are certified organic. That means that the majority of hemp produced in the U.S. is being grown conventionally, using potentially toxic, synthetic pesticides and synthetic nitrogen fertilizer derived from the fracking of natural gas. Frankly, that’s not very good for the environment or for the oncoming climate crisis, as conventional agriculture is one of the…

Preparing for Increased M&A Activity in the US Hemp Industry By Emily Gordon, Hoban Law Group With a stroke of President Trump’s pen on December 20, 2018, the Agricultural Improvement Act (“2018 Farm Bill”) became law in the United States, clarifying and affirming the lawfulness of hemp and permanently precluding hemp from treatment as a controlled substance. The USDA still has a long way to go toward finalizing the regulations that will implement the 2018 Farm Bill, and there are still many areas of uncertainty, but one thing is all but certain: the industry will continue to grow, consolidate, and…

Will We Regenerate with Hemp, or Choose Corn 2.0? By John Roulac America’s hemp movement has come a long way in the past 25 years. Today, hemp CBD is experiencing its own day in the sun moment. Everywhere you turn, there’s a news story—from CVS rolling out hemp to 800 stores to Martha Stewart getting into CBD-infused pet products. In the coming decade, sales of hemp CBD are expected to rival those of vitamins. Yet there’s a growing concern among conscious consumers about the fact that the hemp plant is a major bioaccumulator that concentrates pesticides and other contaminates. Shall…