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Farmer gets dopey calls over hemp crop
The grower of Manawatu’s first hemp crop continues to get phone calls from people associating the plant with marijuana. But Bulls farmer Hew Dalrymple said the “strange” phone calls would not put him off planting another crop next year. The first industrial hemp crop to be grown in Manawatu will be harvested at the end of February, with the seed then pressed for oil. When it became public knowledge in July last year that Mr Dalrymple would plant the 4ha hemp crop — under tight security and at a secret location — he got a few funny comments and unusual phone calls.
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Farmer out of joint over thefts
A farmer who started growing hemp after the foot-and-mouth outbreak cost him his livestock has urged thieves to stop stealing his crops.
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Farmer seeks to rehabilitate taboo crop
Yoshinori Omori, a young farmer in Tochigi Prefecture, thinks it’s not such a dopey idea. He is trying to bring the plant linked to marijuana back into public acceptance-with a version of rice paper made of hemp fiber.
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Farmers find ways to “go on forever”
When speaking with a group of rural Grade 10 students earlier this winter, Gary Davis posed a difficult question: how do you define sustainability? “I really had to work on them to get an answer.” But the answer he got wasn’t a bad one. From their collective wisdom, the students decided that sustainability refers to something that will go on forever. Last week, Davis was among a group of farmers at a two-day workshop who believe sustainability can work for them on their farms.
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Farmers hope African crop is steppingstone to hemp
It’s kenaf, a west African plant whose fibers can be turned into paper or potentially into twine, rope, mats, carpeting or fiberboard. Blended with Canadian hemp and polypropylene plastic, it can form composites that Daimler-Chrysler is using in automotive door panels.
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Farmers hope to build hemp processing plant
Last time Manitoba farmers put their trust in a hemp processing plant, the company folded. Growers were left holding two million dollars worth of unsold fibre. This time, farmers hope to build the processing facility themselves and throw in the two million dollars in hemp as downpayment. That’s the plan for 55 farmers who haven’t given up on hemp, despite a bad experience when Consolidate Growers and Processors Inc. went out of business in 1999.
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Farmers learning to grow hemp better is paying off for consumers too
With only four harvests to their credit since industrial hemp was given the green light to grow in Canada, farmers working with this new crop have had their share of frustrations; but it’s starting to pay off. Hempola Valley Farms recently announced a promising collaboration with a company needing hemp fibre, hence more money for farmers by “dual cropping,” Hempola buys hempseed and the fibre is sold to a company making roof shingles. Today, Hempola announced a twenty percent drop in retail price of its flagship product, HEMPOLA Cold Pressed Hempseed Oil.
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Farmers say hemp could rebuild their industry
They want the plant to be legalized for cultivation before another state has the opportunity to corner the potential national market on cross-breeding and processing.
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Fashion police: Our panel of the month; Nicole Sullivan and Chris Hogan of ‘
It’s Euroincognito hemp hip. Woody: “It may look like denim, but I swear it’s hemp. If you light a match near me, we’ll all be arrested.”
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Fashionably natural: A Buyer’s Guide to Natural Fiber Clothing.
In the 1990s, consumers are saying “no” to conventional dyes, “wrinklefree” treatments and pesticide-doused fabrics that are harsh on clothes, not to mention your health and the environment.
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