News
The News category provides comprehensive reporting on the most significant internal updates and industry-wide announcements impacting the industrial hemp sector. This resource covers a wide range of essential topics, including state-level regulatory changes, research breakthroughs from Michigan universities, and strategic shifts within the marketplace. By offering consistent and accurate information, this category ensures that industry stakeholders remain prepared to respond to the complexities of a rapidly growing bio-economy.
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The Hemp Seed Craze: A Nutritional Powerhouse Taking Over the Market!
by Dave Crabill
/ July 24, 2023
They may be small, but trust me, they pack a serious nutritional punch thatโs taking the market by storm. Letโs dive into the awesomeness of hemp seeds and find out why everyoneโs going gaga over them.
We encourage interested growers who are willing to share their experiences producing industrial hemp in the region, especially women, members of underrepresented communities, and veteran farmers to contact Dr. Elizabeth Long
Free Hemp Disease & Pest Diagnosis
by Dave Crabill
/ July 10, 2023
USDA-NIFA Supplemental and Alternative Crops (SAC) grant, industrial hemp fiber and grain producers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin can submit hemp samples to the University of Illinois Plant Clinic in 2023-25 for pest and disease identification at no charge.
In April, we proudly announced our collaboration with prominent organizations in the hemp industry, namely the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and the National Industrial Hemp Council (NIHC), alongside Morris Beegle and We. Are. For. Better. Alternatives (WAFBA), on the development of essential policy priorities for the upcoming 2023 Farm Bill.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first opportunities for public input on new programs focused on lower carbon construction materials made possible by a $350 million investment from President Bidenโs Inflation Reduction Act.
The emerging Cannabis and Industrial Hemp industries have a new โactingโ executive director at the Cannabis Regulatory Agency, Brian Hanna. Hanna served as a manager of field operations, inspections, and investigations for five years under Andrew Brisbo. Brisbo is off to his new job as the director of Michiganโs Bureau of Construction Codes.
Essen Atlas is inviting you to an informal field day to discuss the hemp fiber and seed industry as well as provide the community with insight into what we hope to see in Michiganโs future fiber, food, and fuel industries.
Hemp Building Materials Clear Hurdle for Inclusion in U.S. Building Codes
by Dave Crabill
/ April 7, 2022
This week in New York, the International Code Council (ICC) approved Hemp-lime (Hempcrete), Proposal_RB316-22 for the International Residential Code (IRC). This is the first step toward the ICCโs formal adoption of hempcrete as an officially recognized residential building material!
Rules are released as the industrial hemp industry processing moves to the Cannabis Regulatory Agency.
Governor Whitmer signed Executive Reorganization Order 2022-1, assigning the regulation of processing, distributing, and selling hemp to the soon-to-be-renamed Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA). On April 13, 2022, the ERO will go into effect and the MRA will become the Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA). On this date, authority over hemp processors and handlers under the Industrial Hemp Research and Development Act (IHRDA) will shift to the new CRA.