This week, the Hemp Industries Association welcomes renewing business member Mission Mountain Laboratories and new business member Hometown Hero. Mission Mountain Laboratories provides comprehensive Dietary Supplement, Food, Water, and Hemp/CBD product testing services worldwide from their ISO accredited facility in Ravalli, Montana. Utilizing a wide array of internationally accepted testing standards and analytical methods, Mission Mountain has built a sterling reputation by consistently exceptional service, extraordinary accuracy, competitive pricing, and rapid turnaround time. Hometown Hero

In the first part of February, HIA was glad to welcome new business members Hot Springs Hemp Company, Weaver Farms, and Natural Emphasis, as well as new farming member South Mounttain MicroFarm. Renewing at the Premier Business level (and making the second 2022 commitmement to HIA’s Annual Fund) is CBD American Shaman. Hot Springs Hemp Company manufactures 100% Arkansas grown and processed CBD, CBG, Delta 8, and other hemp products wholesale and retail online. Hot

  This week, the Hemp Industries Association welcomes renewing Business members One Farm and Pinnacle Hemp, along with two new Business members: Simply Crafted and Tennex CBD. Simply Crafted is a Minnesota manufacturer of premium hemp flower and hemp derived products available for retail (and wholesale) online or at their brick and mortar shop in Minneapolis. More info on Simply Crafted. Tennex CBD specializes in high quality, high volume extraction that wholesale, pharmaceutical-grade CBD oil

A Western Australian researcher with the Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC) this week announced the phase 1 results of a multi-year research project entitled Opening the gates to hemp-grazed livestock in Australia. The results, which are available online here, have significant implications for the potential utilization of hemp for the grazing of ruminants. Australia sets strict regulations that make it illegal to feed the following to food-producing animals: Any hemp plant that still has

This week, we’re pleased to welcome to the HIA new members the Illinois Hemp Growers Association  and renewing members C-SIDE Biopharma. Founded in 2018, The Illinois Hemp Growers Association is a women-led benefit corporation supported by the sponsorship, donations, and dues of approximately 1,000 grassroots members. The IHGA educates producers and consumers while representing the industry’s best interests in Springfield and throughout the state of Illinois. More info on the Illinois Hemp Growers Association. C-Side Biopharma

We’re pleased to welcome to the HIA new members this week: Hemp Mellow and Advanced Mobile Filtration Systems. Hemp Mellow offers sustainably sourced, full spectrum products formulated to provide a stress-relieving healthy alternative by optimizing the full spectrum entourage experience with the highest legal levels of ∆-9-THC plus CBD, CBC and CBG. More info on Hemp Mellow. AMFS Filtration offers mobile on-site waste water filtration services and remediation solutions using a patent-pending nanofiltration process that

STILL NO BANKING LEGISLATION? Why Even the Low-hanging Fruit Remains Out of Reach More than 2,300 bills have been signed into law in the eight years since Colorado Representative Ed Perlmutter first introduced what would eventually become the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act of 2021. Even then, before the 2014 Farm Bill cracked the door for industrial hemp and only two states had yet legalized adult-use cannabis, Perlmutter’s bill was viewed as an uncontroversial solution

Zev Paiss sits in the Fiber seat on the HIA Board and is Chair of the HIA’s Fiber Council. Currently a Hemp Industry Expert at Rhizo Verified, a bulk hemp product verification company, Zev is an established hemp industry leader and a passionate advocate for the sustainability impacts of hemp farming and hemp products. Making sense of hemp’s ups and downs: Q&A with Zev Paiss Published September 29, 2021 | By Kristen Nichols Hemp is dead! Long live

California’s CBD change has cannabis operators worldwide taking notice Published October 12, 2021 | By Kristen Nichols, Hemp Editor, Hemp Industry Daily California’s new CBD law is attracting attention from cannabis operators far beyond the Golden State. They have 3.2 trillion reasons to care. A legal change signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week opens the world’s fifth-largest economy (with an estimated $3.2 trillion gross state product) to makers of hemp-derived CBD products worldwide. It’s a change