BY ACM STAFF Hundreds of soon-to-be hemp entrepreneurs packed themselves into Scottsdale’s OdySea View restaurant to witness the launch of HITA, AZ’s new Hemp Industry Trade Association Thursday, April 11. “In a way, you are all pioneers!” proclaimed HITA President “Sully” Sullivan in his opening remarks. The networking event served as the catered kick-off for …
BY DR. LLOYD COVENS, publisher of West420 News Weekly As millions and millions of dollars in merger-and-acquisition deals continue, the serious US-based makers of CBD products are poised to flood the market, building brands, and beginning to produce new innovative delivery and formulation strategies. Over 1000 CBD firms may be active with such a low …
BY MIKEL WEISSER The March meeting of AZDA’s Industrial Hemp Program public hearings most definitely came in like a lion. This month’s three-hour extravaganza featured bad news, great news, and even had a celebrity speaker, Dept of Agriculture Director, Mark Killian. The spacious ADOT auditorium where the group met last month was unavailable, so the …
BY DR. LLOYD COVENS More than 45 speakers from around the US joined in on the first US Department of Agriculture “listening webinar,” seeking action to bring some provisions of the new Farm Bill into immediate effect. The three-hour event (March 13) heard farmers, tribal members, regulators, equipment makers and new potential entrants all express …
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By: Mikel Weisser, staff writer In what is likely to be one of the biggest advances in Arizona agriculture this decade, last May, Arizona’s state legislature approved Industrial Hemp as an agricultural crop beginning August 2019. Arizona became the thirtieth (30th) State to adopt an industrial hemp program. To make the State program work, the …
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