Plant Health

Veritas Farms Begins 2020 Outdoor Planting Season

Veritas Farms, a vertically integrated agribusiness focused on the production of full-spectrum hemp oil products with naturally occurring cannabinoids, has commenced its 2020 outdoor planting season. The company has also implemented several significant improvements to... more »

Applications Now Accepted For Colorado Hemp Seed Certification

The Colorado Hemp Seed Certification Program, a collaborative program between the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA), CSU Seed Programs, the Colorado Seed Growers Association (CSGA), is accepting applications for new certified seed varieties through April... more »

UF/IFAS Hemp Pilot Project Successes Lay Groundwork For Continued Research

Since the Florida State legislature authorized Industrial Hemp Pilot Projects for land grant institutions in 2017, the goal at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) has been to seek scientific... more »

Study: Genetics Key Factor In Hemp Becoming Too High In THC

As the hemp industry grows, producers face the challenge of cultivating a crop that has received comparatively little scientific study, and that can become unusable – and illegal – if it develops too much of... more »

Arizona’s Largest Hemp Grower Partners with Plant-Based Tech Company

Integrated CBD, an institutional scale and quality supply chain leader for hemp-derived CBD, announced the installation completion of plant-based sensor technology, powered by ag-tech company Phytech, on its approximately 10,000-acre industrial hemp farm in Yuma... more »