Hemp
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Why Hemp Growth Needs More Than More Acres
Industrial Hemp’s Next Hurdle: Connecting the Supply ChainIndustrial hemp has plenty of potential customers. Clothing brands want natural fibers, manufacturers are exploring renewable reinforcement materials, and construction businesses are developing uses for the plant’s woody core. Yet having possible applications…
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Hemp Composites Could Help Build Lighter Electric Cars
The next opportunity for industrial hemp could be hiding behind a car door’s upholstery. As electric vehicle manufacturers search for lighter materials, hemp fibres offer a renewable reinforcement that could help selected components meet performance requirements while reducing their reliance…
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Can Hempseed Support Livestock Reproductive Health?
Hemp Feed Shows Promise and Tradeoffs in Ram Sperm StudyHemp could become a more useful agricultural crop if producers can find reliable markets for the materials left after processing. Hempseed cake, the solid material remaining after oil extraction, is one…
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Can Spider Silk Proteins Improve Hemp Yarn?
Hemp has a long history as a textile crop, but making it competitive in modern manufacturing requires more than growing strong stalks. Manufacturers need yarn that behaves consistently as it passes through machines and becomes fabric. Natural variations in cultivation…
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Stronger Hempcrete Retains Its Carbon-Negative Potential
A building material can have an appealing environmental story and still struggle to win over builders. Walls must withstand handling, dry predictably, manage moisture, and perform consistently. For hempcrete, turning those practical requirements into reliable products may matter as much…
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How Nanocellulose Could Expand Hemp’s Industrial Uses
Hemp already has a place in textiles, construction, and natural fibre composites. Its next industrial opportunity could involve something much smaller: extracting cellulose from plant fibres and engineering its surface to work in advanced materials.A new review, Recent Advances in…
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Calcium Carbonate Makes Hemp Insulation More Durable
Hemp has many of the characteristics sought in a modern insulation material. It is renewable, lightweight and naturally porous, while its plant-based origin creates opportunities to replace products made with more energy-intensive or fossil-derived materials. Turning those advantages into a…
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Feeding Lambs Hemp Oil Creates a Nutritional Tradeoff
Hemp Seed Oil Improves Lamb Nutrition but Shortens Shelf LifeHemp seed oil can change the nutritional composition of lamb without noticeably affecting its basic meat quality. The complication is that these nutritional gains may make the meat more vulnerable to…
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Scientists Turn Hemp Protein Into Stronger Bioplastic
Hemp seed oil leaves behind more than an empty press. The remaining oil cake still contains substantial amounts of protein, but this material is often treated as a low-value by-product rather than a feedstock for advanced manufacturing. New research suggests…
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Could Hemp Fiber Make Aerospace Materials More Sustainable?
Industrial hemp is usually discussed as a source of cannabinoids, food ingredients, textiles or building materials. Its stalks, however, contain cellulose-rich fibres that can reinforce lightweight composites. That has placed hemp within the search for alternatives to glass and carbon…
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Hemp Fermentation Could Produce More Resilient Probiotics
Hemp is usually presented as a source of cannabinoids, nutritious seeds, fiber, or sustainable industrial materials. New research suggests it may have another role: serving as a biological training environment for potentially beneficial microorganisms.A study published in Food Bioscience1 found…
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Could Fermentation Unlock a New Market for Hemp Drinks?
For years, hemp beverages have largely been defined by what manufacturers add to them, particularly CBD and intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids. New research suggests another possibility: using the hemp plant itself as a fermentation substrate to create products with distinctive flavors…
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Flower Harvesting Could Increase Hemp Essential Oil Yield
Industrial hemp is often promoted as a crop capable of supplying everything from food and fiber to cannabinoids and construction materials. In practice, however, most production systems are designed around one primary product. A field planted for grain is managed…
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Can Spent Hemp Biomass Safely Become Chicken Feed?
Hemp producers can extract valuable cannabinoids from flowers and leaves, but the process leaves behind a substantial quantity of plant material. Known as spent hemp biomass, this residue may retain protein, fiber, minerals, fatty acids, and cannabinoids even after extraction.…
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Could Cold-Tolerant Hemp Expand Where the Crop Can Grow?
Industrial hemp is often described as a hardy crop, but that label can hide an important reality. Hemp still has biological limits, and low temperatures can interfere with growth long before a plant dies or shows obvious damage above ground.A…
