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Prairie hemp acres reaching plateau

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CNS Canada — Hemp continues to draw interest as an alternative cropping option in Western Canada, but its slow pace in moving toward deregulation may be limiting the upside acreage potential. Early expectations are for planted area of about 100,000 acres this year, which would be slightly above what was seeded in 2014 and a
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Federal government loans money to hemp-processing facility expansion

New facility for growing demand for hemp production

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When Shaun Crew stepped up to the podium to accept a sizable loan from the federal government for Hemp Oil Canada’s new processing facility, it was fitting the president and CEO wore hemp pants. And hemp shoes. And even hemp socks, he confessed later. Ted Falk, MP for Provencher, announced the $4.6 million of repayable
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Crops, News

Tenth annual Ag Awareness Day looks at hemp

Once outlawed, Manitoba hemp is a sought-after food product and is returning to its manufacturing roots

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Manitoba is growing good things, in particular, hemp. The fibrous plant — touted as having more than 25,000 uses in a 1913 edition of Popular Mechanics — was lauded last week, during the annual Agriculture Awareness Day at the Manitoba legislature. The all-party event is in its 10th year and Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn took
Crops, News

Legalization down south may be a buzz kill up north

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Now that Colorado and Washington state have legalized marijuana, and 10 more states have given the nod to industrial hemp production, the clock may be ticking on Canada’s head start in North America. The latest U.S. Farm Bill has made provisions for the research trials done through universities or state Agricultural Departments, but with so
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Crops, Oilseeds

Farmers high on hemp as returns beat canola

Strong prices have led to ‘unprecedented’ interest in the crop, says Hemp Oil Canada rep

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Hemp acres in Manitoba are set to shatter records again this year as interest in the crop rises to an unprecedented level, the seed production manager for Hemp Oil Canada said last week. Kevin Friesen told about 30 farmers meeting at the Food Development Centre here that he anticipates 90,000 acres of contracted production this
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Manitoba a biocomposites world leader?

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Composites Innovation Centre official says researchers close to finding way to create super-strong composites from flax and hemp fibres

Manitoba researchers believe they are on the brink of game-changing breakthrough that could thrust the province — and its farmers — into the forefront of the multibillion-dollar composites materials industry. “Manitoba has a real opportunity to be a global biomaterial centre,” said Simon Potter, sector manager for product innovations at the Composites Innovation Centre (CIC)
Crops, News

Organic hemp a money-maker

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Manitoba organic farmers could be reaping excellent returns from the “green buffalo,” according to the co-founder of the world’s largest vertically integrated hemp food-processing facility based in Winnipeg. Only five per cent of the 7,000 acres of organic hemp seed contracted each year by Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods and Oils comes from its home province,
News, Opinion, Our History

Our history: February 1929

Hemp is not a new crop in Manitoba. The February, 1929 issue of The Scoop Shovel, which later became the Manitoba Co-operator, featured an advertisement for rope made from Manitoba-grown hemp by the Manitoba Cordage Co. in Portage. Another local product advertised was Kirchner’s seeder plow, which “plows, sows and covers the seed,” with claimed
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Fashionistas fancy green as the new black

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Could “green” be the new black? Perhaps if you can imagine wearing stilettos made from pistachio nuts and coffee beans and clothes from orange peel, fungi and mould. While the fashion pack is hitting the catwalks at Paris Fashion Week, students at London’s Kingston University are trying to lower the clothing and accessory industry’s carbon
News, Oilseeds

Manitoba Seeing A Products Revolution

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It takes a lot of energy to keep the largest greenhouse in Manitoba warm through a bone-chilling winter, and until five years ago, that energy source was natural gas at Vanderveens Greenhouses in Carman. With gas prices spiking and the cost of heating hundreds of thousands of square feet of greenhouse rising with it, the

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