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Hemp For Livestock – for Aug. 5, 2010

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How does hemp fit in with grazing and livestock? Surprisingly, the plant with 50,000 uses can work for a few more, according to MAFRI diversification specialist Keith Watson. Hemp meal, the leftover mush from squeezing the grain for oil, can be fed to cattle. High in essential omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, it is also
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Canadian Hemp Acres On The Rise

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Canadian farmers are expected to grow more hemp this year. Demand for both the seed and fibre is increasing, and the crop can offer good returns to producers, according to an industry official. “This year there is a lot of optimism in the market,” said Kim Shukla, executive director of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance,
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New Market For Hemp Straw, Fibre

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“What I found surprised me. Canada had little hemp-fibre processing capacity.” – ROBERT JIN Plans to build the first hemp fibre-processing plant in North America were announced at a press conference in Gilbert Plains April 6. Work on the $10-million facility, to be built by Plains Industrial Hemp Processing Ltd., will start this summer, according
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Waskada Group To Build Hemp Oil Plant

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Agroup of Waskada entrepreneurs had received $4.895 million from the federal gover nment and another $75,000 from the province to build a hemp oil-processing plant in the community. “This is a great day for Waskada and the R. M. s of Brenda, Arthur and Winchester,” said Keith Hannah, president of Farm Genesis Group Marketing Inc.
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Feds Fund Flax Fibre Fact Finding

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Abrain trust focused on development of value-added markets for flax and hemp fibre will get a federal investment of $9.6 million. The Natural Fibres for the Green Economy Network (NAFGEN), led by Flax Canada 2015, is meant to connect “top researchers, industry and producers” to help create more industrial value chains by improving fibre crop
News, Oilseeds

Not Your Grandpa’s Crops

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Camelina, calendula, niger, zero-tannin fababeans and hemp are some of the non-traditional crops that have been sprouting up in Manitoba fields in recent years. All of them can be grown successfully in this region, judging from the results from the Western Ag Diversification Organization’s (WADO) test plots last year. Of them all, camelina has been
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Hemp provides many solutions

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“We need options, otherwise we’ll be a wheat-canola country from coast to coast and that’s not sustainable.” – DARYL DOMITRUK Hemp is the solution for many agricultural and environmental concerns in Canada according to Daryl Domitruk. The director of Agri-Industry Development and Innovation for the province said Manitoba is especially well suited to position itself
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Designer wants Canadian hemp

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Barbara Filippone dreams of the day she can do business closer to home. The president and developer for EnviroTextiles in Colorado said she would love to work with Canadians. Canada’s hemp industry might still be in its infancy. Right now, hemp seed and oil are the hot commodities but fibre is on the horizon. Filippone,

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