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Southern Cross University is supporting Australia’s emerging hempseed food industry to develop hemp varieties of high nutritional value best-suited to local conditions. Amid global demand for higher quality natural foods, this new research project – funded by the Australian Research Council – puts Southern Cross University at the forefront of locally grown hempseed industries and […]
By Joe Roberts Hemp fibre produces some of the strongest and most durable materials in the world and absorbs more carbon than pine trees. Hemp Farms Australia believes interest in the plant needs reigniting. Cannabis Wealth sat down with Lauchlan Grout, co-founder of the Australian industrial hemp farming agribusiness, Hemp Farms Australia. The company was […]
Hemp, a sustainable wonder crop expected to bring wealth and opportunity to Australian farmers Targeted use of biological pesticides, herbicides and fungicides; and organic and microbial fertilisers to facilitate economic, environmental and social sustainability outcomes. Wandarra is building Australia’s largest hemp cultivation and production facility in Northern Queensland. Hemp is not marijuana; it is a […]
AgriFutures Australia has partnered with the industrial hemp industry to support their goal of reaching an annual GVP target of $10 million by 2026. Central to this was the establishment of the Industrial Hemp Variety Trials (IHVT), which seeks to provide producers with a clear understanding of the optimal industrial hemp grain (seed) or dual […]
Soil contamination is increasing at an alarming rate due to a number of human activities such as the release of industrial effluents, municipal wastes and waste sludge enriched with heavy metals and chemicals that contaminate surrounding environments and farming regions. Once these contaminates are enriched in our soils, they will remain a potential threat to […]
Queensland Country Life – James McManagan A group of keen hemp producers, processors and industry supporters shuffled into the Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brisbane on Wednesday night to officially form Queensland’s first representative hemp growers association in what is a major step for the State’s industry. Unofficially known as iHemp Queensland, the body is the […]
When transgenic cannabis seed comes to market, growers will have many more choices of strains to grow. Genetic modification of cannabis will inevitably lead to an increase in variety since more genetic traits are being introduced into the population. Genetic variety decreases based on a decrease in choice on what varieties to cultivate. Thus, stifling […]
During the full crop cycle, flowering is the most important phase in hemp cultivation. Flowering influences and determines both biomass and seed yield in terms of quantity of quality, we have found the most desirable flowering phases are short in duration and even maturity because it favours uniform crop development. Throughout this article I will […]
By James McManagan Queensland Country Life It might not be happening quickly but the cogs ending Australia’s cannabis prohibition are turning – according to one of the country’s largest suppliers of industrial hemp genetics, Hemp Farms Australia. Lauchlan Grout and Harrisson Lee founded the company in 2013 and believe industrial hemp and cannabis is no […]
Throughout this initial piece on the Botany of Cannabis sativa, I summarise botany of our planet as a whole and where cannabis fits in to the early establishment of our plant ecosystem. The plant sciences include genetics, physiology and anatomy, biochemistry ecology, systematics, biogeography, economics, and, of course, biotechnology. With so many sub-disciplines, we can […]