australia

Australian Farmers Eye Hemp Mill

by Kristoffer James on March 20, 2010

Almost a year and a half after Australian farmers were encouraged to grow hemp in the province of New South Wales, it looks like their counterparts in Queensland are sufficiently interested in the crop that they’re considering building a hemp mill to process the fibres of their future cash-crop. As ABC.net.au reports: A hemp fibre [...]

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Hough Fights for Hemp Foods

by Kristoffer James on November 30, 2008

Now that Australian the province of New South Whales has legalized hemp farming, the CEO of Australian hemp lobby and research company Hemp Resources, Kim Hough, is wasting no time in pushing the envelope. You see, even though it’s now legal to grow hemp for fiber, it is still illegal for Australians to consume hemp-food [...]

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Australian Farmers Encouraged to Grow Hemp

by Kristoffer James on November 24, 2008

New legislation in Australia recently legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp in the province of New South Wales. Farmers in NSW are now being encouraged to take up the crop. Although it still remain illegal for humans to consume hemp product in Australia, it seems that dogs are exempt. That’s right, farmers are being to [...]

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Australian Hemp Trials Update

by Kristoffer James on November 12, 2008

Yesterday, we posted about how Hemp Resources, that recently conducted hemp trials in China, also concluded additional trials in its native Australia. Well, last night, the managing director and CEO of Hemp Resources dropped us a line with some additional insight into just how well the Australian trials went. Kim wrote: The trials in Kununurra [...]

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Hemp Trial Conclude in Australia

by Kristoffer James on November 11, 2008

Australian based firm, Hemp Resources, that recently conducted hemp trials in China just concluded additional trials in its native country. It also seems that they went well enough that the firm is considering cultivating another crop next year, even though Australian law would prevent them from selling it in the country. As ABC.net.au reports: Western [...]

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Chinese Try Hemp in Tropical Climates

by Kristoffer James on October 9, 2008

An Australian based firm, Hemp Resources, is preparing to harvest its first crop of industrial hemp grown in China. Although industrial hemp is already gown in China, the purpose of these trials is to determine how the plant copes in the country’s tropical regions. So far, the crop seems to be doing just fine. As [...]

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