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Stay educated about the emerging hemp industry with news, stories, press and informational articles by Sovereign Fields.
3 Strategies to Identify Male Hemp Plants
Nipping seeds in the bud is a key aspect of growing hemp — particularly hemp for cannabinoid oil production and smokable, boutique hemp. Preventing seed formation not only concentrates hemp plants’ energy into cannabinoid and resin production, but also avoids...
How to Avoid ‘Hot Hemp’
A hot commodity, hemp challenges farmers to be at the forefront of trends in this dynamic market. Among the industry pitfalls is growing “hot hemp.” The term emerged with crops containing more than the federally legal limit of 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which...
5 Crucial Questions When Choosing a Hemp Testing Lab
Making or breaking hemp sales, compliant certificates of analysis are essential. Hemp producers need COAs in hand, ready to share with potential buyers — at the moment they’re requested. Who wants to waste valuable time only to find out a current test result isn’t...
With Hemp, Genetics Are Primary
Vince Sliwoski said it best in a recent issue of his Canna Law Blog: “The Future of Hemp is Genetics.” As he goes on to itemize, there are historically complex factors that are still working their way through the emerging sector focused on farming hemp for CBD,...
Feed and Water Right for Healthy, Happy Hemp Plants
Gazing across a hemp field as morning sun peeks over the horizon — versus after a long, hot July day — what do you see? Are the plants’ branches lifted to meet the first light, emanating a vibrant green? Or are they droopy and dull-colored — or worse, wilted...
5 Benefits of Autoflower Hemp
Turning a profit for legal CBD hemp challenges farmers to break free of the market’s pervasive, stagnant structure. The traditional schedule of the cannabis plant is familiar to many of us, as well as the economics tied to its timeline: 1. Plant in spring. 2....
4 Tips for Growing Hemp Seed Starts
Methods and techniques for growing CBD hemp arise from basement “grow laboratories” in the high-THC cannabis industry. But that knowledge must be adapted to the legal, industrial U.S. hemp crop with its significantly scaled-up footprint nationwide since the passage of...
8 Mistakes to Avoid When Growing Feminized Hemp Seeds
Now that growing hemp for CBD use has been federally decriminalized, more and more farmers are taking to this booming crop. The amount of licensed acreage in the US has more than quadrupled since 2018. Since the laws have so recently changed, nearly all of the...
Pros and Cons of Directly Sowing Hemp Seeds
Taking cues from their counterparts in cannabis, hemp farmers are using greenhouses more often, compared with growers of other industrialized crops. But are greenhouses really required to pull off a successful season of hemp farming? Depending on a farmer’s local...
What Do Federal Regulations Mean for 2020’s Hemp Crop — and Beyond?
Hemp cultivation in 2019 seemed, in many ways, like a nationwide free-for-all. Confused and amused Americans gawked while driving past fields of cannabis sativa L, staggeringly large in size. Acres of a plant that had been demonized and outlawed for nearly a century...
3 Important Considerations When Choosing CBD Hemp Seed
Choices hemp farmers weigh early in the year for purchasing seed stock will echo into the next year — and beyond. How hemp farmers select plant genetics strongly influences their business decisions and strategies into the foreseeable future. These choices have major...
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