Hemp

12/1/19 BES

This page contains references to hemp.

Introductory/General

Industrial Hemp: transformation for NC agriculture? | Jack Whitley (July 2017)

North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association

The North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association (NCIHA) is a 501(c)(6) trade organization that represents all the stakeholders helping to build a thriving hemp industry in North Carolina.

We support the growing, processing, and sale of hemp and hemp products within North Carolina in a responsible manner. Through education, dedication, and development, we believe that North Carolina can be accelerated to the forefront of global growth in industrial hemp.

Hemp for Victory - a USA Government Propaganda film, 1942

('Note: in the TEDx talk above - Whitley, he referenced, incorrectly, this film as Hemp for America)

Hemp Agriculture

Processing and Farming Equipment in the Hemp Industry

The Hemp Plant

Seed

In-field Machinery

PowerZone Agriculture

Video: PowerZone Agriculture

'Power Zone Agriculture has designed and tested a harvesting system for hemp flowers from tall (to 14 feet), closely spaced CBD crop. It handles product delicately to avoid trichome damage. Similar systems are available for harvesting grain and seed without the use of a combine. Lower cutters can be added to the system to cut and windrow hemp stalks for retting and subsequent decortication at a fraction of the cost for dual headed cutters used in Europe. It attaches to a tractor using locally, easy to find parts, and within a few minutes can be attached or detached.

Processing

PureHemp’s patented continuous countercurrent reactor (“CCR”) technology

...from the website above...

Pulp from hemp can be used for a wide variety of products such as specialty and packaging papers, bathroom and facial tissues, diapers, personal hygiene products, building products and even sugars to manufacture foods, beverages, chemicals and ethanol. Unlike traditional pulping technologies that take hours to remove the lignin, hemp pulp produced in the CCR takes, on average, 5 minutes.

Lignin is another raw material that PureHemp is able to efficiently extract from hemp. Unlike other technologies that produce lignin, the PureHemp lignin has been tested by third parties and shown to have outstanding and unique qualities, suitable for producing value-added industrial products including plastics, coatings and chemicals such as terephthalic acid and ionic liquids.

Sugars that will be produced from hemp refineries will primarily be glucose and xylose, both intermediate commodities used to make an array of beverages, nutraceuticals, chemicals, plastics and other consumer and industrial products.

CBD-Rich Oils are being produced and refined by PureHemp for Pure Kind Botanicals and private label companies. Historically, extractions have been performed under contract with growers of high CBD strains of hemp. PureHemp employs a unique ethanol extraction method to separate the cannabinoids and terpenes from the hemp flowers.

Hemp Seeds are typically separated from the plant when seeds are mature. Oil extracted from hemp seeds is a valuable component of the plant. Hemp oil and other seed-based products will be produced with off-the-shelf equipment.