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Flowr, Hawthorne Canada Complete Cannabis Research, Development Facility
North America’s first research and development facility dedicated to advancing cannabis cultivation techniques and systems has been completed by The Flowr Corporation and Hawthorne Canada Limited, a subsidiary of the Hawthorne Gardening Company division of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company. Scotts Miracle-Gro is the world’s leading marketer of branded consumer lawn... more »Pre-Christmas Cannabis Sales Expected To Hit $400 Million
Business intelligence from Akerna, an enterprise software, leading compliance technology provider, and developer of the cannabis industry's first seed-to-sale enterprise resource planning (ERP) software technology (MJ Platform), estimates cannabis sales to spike this holiday season. "To determine how the Christmas and New Year's holidays would affect cannabis sales nationally, we... more »Treating Strawberries With CBD Oil Lengthens Shelf Life
Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive component of cannabis, has promising potential as an antimicrobial treatment to fresh produce, according to researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology at the University of South Florida. The study focused on examining the potential of CBD oil as a postharvest treatment... more »
Sweetwater Hemp’s Ice, Water Hemp Extraction Facility To Open In 2021
With more than 150 continuous years of farming under its belt, the Cruise Family of Pleasanton, Nebraska operates several successful agricultural businesses. This includes an acre-sized greenhouse providing produce to more than 300 Wal-Mart locations, and a farming operation with a 3000-acre output of corn and soybeans every season. Sweetwater... more »
Pipp Horticulture Acquires Vertical Air Solutions
Pipp Horticulture (a division of Pipp Mobile Storage Systems, Inc.), a provider of multi‐level mobile cultivation systems, has acquired Vertical Air Solutions LLC (VAS). Based in Santa Cruz, California, VAS provides air circulation systems and related products to the global indoor vertical farming industry. "We are excited to welcome the... more »
Hemp Potency Testing Available Through Texas A&M AgriLife
The ability to conduct potency tests for the state’s newcomer crop – hemp – during the growing season is coming to Texas A&M AgriLife soon with the new Texas A&M AgriLife Hemp Testing Service. Hemp testing software provided in a collaboration with Ionization Labs will allow the Texas A&M AgriLife... more »
Thanksgiving Cannabis Sales Top $238 Million
Business intelligence from Akerna, an enterprise software, leading compliance technology provider, and developer of the cannabis industry's first seed-to-sale enterprise resource planning (ERP) software technology, finds that cannabis consumers spent approximately $238 million during the 2020 Thanksgiving weekend (11/25 – 11/28). The average basket size for medical consumers was $122.64,... more »
