Insights
November 2019 Hemp Market Update: PanXchange Benchmark Pricing
Biomass Spot Pricing: The price of biomass across the three PanXchange benchmarks (Colorado, Kentucky, and Oregon) has continued to decline on a month-over-month basis, largely due to the outdoor grow...
Financial Regulators Issue New Pro-Hemp Banking Guidance
Because hemp is no longer a Schedule I controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act, banks are no longer required to file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) on customers solely because the...
FDA Sends Out New Round of Warning Letters
For Immediate Release: November 25, 2019 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to 15 companies for illegally selling products containing cannabidiol (CBD) in ways that vi...
Senators Push USDA To Adopt Five Changes To Proposed Hemp Regulations
by Kyle Jaeger – Marijuana Moment Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) sent a letter to the head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday, requesting a series of chan...
November Hemp Benchmarks
New Leaf Data Services, LLC, is pleased to release its Hemp Benchmarks® Spot Price Index Report for November 2019, including wholesale price assessments of biomass, dry CBD & CBG flower, clones, s...
The Future of Hemp
by Barrett Wissman Contributor- Forbes Over the last few weeks, the financial news has been reporting on the gloomy outlook for the hemp and cannabis industry. This includes not only hemp and cannabis...
Hemp: A New Crop with New Uses for North America
This extensive report written by Ernest Small and David Marcus is reprinted from: Trends in new crops and new uses. 2002. by J. Janick and A. Whipkey (eds.). This 43-page extensive report covers the h...
Governor Issues Executive Order Legalizing Hemp Transport Through Idaho
by Ruth Brown with the Idaho Statesmen Gov. Brad Little issued an executive order on Tuesday allowing interstate transportation of hemp through Idaho to resolve conflicts between state and federal law...
How Much Hemp Was Grown in 2019?
by KIT O’CONNELL at the Ministry of Hemp A look at the total number of hemp growing licenses issued this year gives us an important glimpse into the rapidly growing hemp industry. More people th...
The Latest Hemp Laws State-by-State: October 2019
By: Hemp Industry Team at Frost, Brown, Todd The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its interim final rule for the U.S. Domestic Hemp Program on Oct. 29, 2019, sending a signal to financia...
Virginia’s First Commercial Hemp Fiber Processor Coming to Wythe County
WYTHEVILLE, Va. — Gov. Ralph Northam announced that Virginia’s first commercial industrial hemp fiber processing facility will locate in Wythe County. Vitality Farms, LLC, operating as Appalachian Bio...
How to Read a Certificate of Analysis (COA)?
Excerpted from Kasmira What is a certificate of analysis? A certificate of analysis (COA) is a lab report on the chemical make-up (e.g., contents) of a product. In the context of Industrial Hemp extra...
