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By Reggie Gaudino, Chief Science Adviser, New Frontier Data In October 2018, the USDA activated their official hemp rules in the form of the "Establishment of a Domestic Hemp Production Program". With those rules came additional guideline documents for sampling and testing, through a set...

By Beau Whitney, Vice President and Senior Economist, New Frontier Data Given widespread interest, investment, and issues in hemp since the 2018 Farm Bill legalized the plant for nationwide U.S. production for the first time in decades, public comment was bound to be vigorous. By the time that the...

By William Sumner, Hemp Content Manager, New Frontier Data It pays to be green. According to market analysis by the Organic Trade Association, organic food and non-food products exceeded $50 billion in United States sales in 2018. Given the popularity of such products in the U.S., a growing number...

Q: How will the USDA's Interim Rules affect the hemp industry? A: Within the first two weeks of opening a public comment period, more than 500 questions have been submitted regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s interim hemp regulations. In a third installment of reviewing...

By William Sumner, Hemp Business Journal Ten months after passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released its interim regulations for the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program. Included in the interim rules is a provision allowing the USDA to...

The Trump administration has announced a long-awaited rule on domestic hemp production that could help relieve legal snags for trucking companies and drivers hauling the crop across state lines. The U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program, announced today (Oct. 29) by U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Over the last year, African swine fever wiped out 1 million hogs in China and many more across Europe and Southeast Asia. “This is an unusual, perhaps unprecedented time of the protein industry,” Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) CEO Noel White said on Monday’s second-quarter earnings...

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lowered its export projections for corn and wheat in the 2018-2019 harvest season amid slumping grain volumes and Midwest rail operations coping from last month's record flooding. In USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates...

Nothing gets to the heart of decentralized, organic blockchain technology growth like mandated governmental legislation to search for potential use cases. In response to our neighbor and technology powerhouse, Wyoming, pushing through legislation on digital assets focusing on cryptocurrency, the...

Ohio farmers are rushing to finish their harvests, on pace to haul in some of the best yields in years. Corn and soybean fields are plentiful across the Buckeye State, and soybeans is its number one crop. A recent list published by Beef2Live.com ranks Ohio as the sixth-leading producer of soybeans...

Exposure to industrial hemp farming has begun to increase as of late, despite the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which made the plant illegal to grow in the U.S. This non-psychoactive plant possesses numerous economic purposes, but one recent study suggests its capabilities transcend plastic...

Reflecting an improving egg commodity cycle, Stephens upgraded shares of Cal-Maine Foods Inc (NASDAQ: CALM). The firm said the improvement is characterized by below-par production, stronger-than-expected demand and increasing export opportunities. As such, the firm upgraded the shares of the...

With about 44,000 farms stretched across 14.5 million acres of farmland, Arkansas ranks No. 16 in the U.S. for cash receipts, with soybeans and rice bringing in nearly $2.63 billion of the total $8.9 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So, when the state’s crops began to...

A scandal involving spoiled meat from Brazil has prompted the United States to finally join other nations in banning imports from the country, where food inspectors were purportedly bribed to turn a blind eye to bad beef. The ban was announced Thursday by U.S. Agriculture Sonny Perdue, an appointee...

What does the death of the Indian buffalo industry mean for U.S. beef producers? Actually, not much. As Indian slaughterhouses brace for government-led shutdowns — a threat seemingly anchored in religious tension between Hindu politicians and industry-leading Muslims — the move is...