Technology

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,... 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... 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... 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... more »

Cannabis Sales To Reach $270M Over Thanksgiving Weekend

New 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), anticipates a 78% increase over average daily... more »

Free Cultivation Software Available For California Cannabis Operators

Ciclo, a vertically integrated cannabis software technology company, is offering its cultivation software for free to all California licensed cannabis operators beginning Nov. 16. This free technology enables operators to experience an advanced cultivation tool... more »

New Mexico Highlands University Adds Hemp Certificate Program

The New Mexico Highlands University Board of Regents approved a new program in Emerging Business Markets Entrepreneurship. The program’s initial concentration will offer students a certificate in industrial hemp entrepreneurship. Before launching, the program must... more »

Largest Legal Hemp Harvest In Over 80 Years Gathered In Florida

Green Point Research, an international phytocannabinoid-rich biomass originator and processor, completed the largest hemp harvest in Florida in over 80 years. The multi-day, 110-acre harvest in North Florida reaped over 500,000 hemp plants and is... more »

Study: Nearly Half Of Cannabis Consumers Are Over 40

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), reveals a snapshot of North American cannabis consumers'... more »

Santa Fe Farms Acquires FathomNM’s Post Cultivation Services

Santa Fe Farms LLC, a company in the production, extraction, manufacturing, and distribution of THC-free, hemp-based phyto-cannabinoids, has acquired FathomNM, LLC’s post cultivation services as part of its overall hemp operations in New Mexico. FathomNM,... more »