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Current Affairs 2008 - Hemp (9 items)
| Nov 17, 2008 | Manitoba Releases National Hemp Strategy The Province of Manitoba has released a national hemp strategy that will seek to identify new opportunities for farmers, processors, researchers and exporters.
"Manitoba's farmers and processors are at the leading edge of hemp production," Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk ( said ) recently.
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| Nov 13, 2008 | Demand For Hemp Soaring, Firm Moves To Bigger Plant Not only is demand for hemp products skyrocketing -- Canadian hemp seed exports increased by 300 per cent and hemp oil exports by 85 per cent from 2006 to 2007 -- but one of the country's oldest and largest hemp food producers, Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils, is moving into a new state-of-the-art processing plant this week that will boost its production capacity by 500 per cent.
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| Aug 21, 2008 | Hemp: The New Choice For Farmers - And It's Legal While marijuana might be the obvious, illegal cannabis cash crop, the drug's non-munchie-inducing cousin, hemp, could be a viable choice for local farmers.
John Baker, president and founder of Stonehedge Bio-Resources Inc., said Eastern Ontario has the ideal climate and soil to grow hemp crops
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| Aug 6, 2008 | St-Isidore Seed Dealer Experimenting With Hemp Marc Bercier grows hemp on the lower part of a field behind his St-Isidore seed cleaning facility. He's testing 100 varieties and hopes to soon find the right one to produce vegetable oil and market it as a Canadian substitute for virgin olive oil.
"I'm anti-multinationals," Bercier says, standing inside a container housing his new oil press.
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| Jun 25, 2008 | MB Growers Breeding New Hemp HEMP growers in the Dauphin region are going back to some of the original hemp breeds in the area from the 18th century to come up with new varieties.
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| Apr 2, 2008 | Hemp Farming, The Other Cash Crop It's been three long years of research, meetings, planning and trials and this is the year to prove it's all been worthwhile.
The District of 100 Mile House has been actively pursuing hemp farming, a project identified by the Cariboo-Chilcotin Beetle Action Committee as a possible strategy for economic diversification.
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| Mar 19, 2008 | Hemp Education 101 Did you know hemp played a vital role in the settlement of North America and helped win the Second World War?
Many people don't, but now with the help of a new video on YouTube more than 1,400 do.
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| Feb 12, 2008 | Hemp Foods Turn Healthy Profit Manitoba has become the centre of hemp food production in North America.
Fata's company and Ste. Agathe-based Hemp Oil Canada Inc., which supplies food manufacturers with hemp seed and oil, are the two biggest players on the continent, Hemp Oil president Shawn Crew said Monday.
"We're shipping to about 15 countries," said Crew, who would not reveal the private company's sales figures, but said they are in the millions of dollars annually. Sales were up 40 per cent last year, he said.
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| Jan 9, 2008 | Hemp Heads Mainstream Heather Heron wants people to know hemp fabric is about so much more than those gaudy-looking, rough, hooded shirts for sale in environmental shops. "They're making so many beautiful blends of it," she said, "you wouldn't know the difference between that and a really beautiful piece of linen."
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