February was a quiet news month for industrial hemp, giving us a little time to think about some of the structural issues facing the industry. Per usual, PanXchange’s monthly Benchmarks & Analysis report provided a good launching pad.
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Hemp In ‘Year of Transition,’ PanXchange CEO Says
Julie Lerner, CEO of PanXchange, recently sat down with JLN’s Thom Thompson for an in-depth discussion of the industrial hemp market. Her view of current supply vs. demand may surprise you.
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CBD Prices Languish As KSU Studies Using Hemp In Feed
It has been quiet lately in hemp country - which, since the 2018 Farm Act, of course, includes all 50 states. In fact, industrial hemp plantings were reported to the USDA’s Farm Service Agency by farmers in 48 states in 2020 (Alaska and Mississippi didn’t come to the...
The Hemp Industry Has Room To Grow
As the third nationally legal industrial hemp crop hits the market, it is clear that American producers, consumers, merchants and processors are engaged, at an early stage, in a grand and exciting economic experiment to leverage an ages-old commodity into effective, reliable products for technologically advanced markets.
Hemp Production Normalizes (not NORMLizes)
Hemp farming is experiencing normal growing pains. We can see the industry’s maturation in the evolution of the legal, commercial and business issues hemp farmers and processors are grappling with.
Healthy Outlook for 2020 Hemp Production
There is some good news about industrial hemp production buried in PanXchange’s September 2020 report, Hemp: Benchmark and Analysis. Like last year, there has been a big jump this month in the monthly report of the number of planted hemp acres as the harvest...
Hemp Prices: “I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up”
The August 2020 Hemp: Benchmarks and Analysis was published last week by our friends at PanXchange. Now, at the end of August the harvest of field grown industrial hemp has not only begun, but also some early harvested hemp targeted to the cannabidiol (CBD) market is...
Hemp Prices Stagnate; Hempcrete Gets Debunked
PanXchange’s July hemp benchmark report was published on Wednesday. If you have been following this space you will not be surprised to learn that hemp prices remain depressed.
Hemp Enters Growing Season Against Backdrop of Moribund Prices
No one will be surprised to learn that the price of CBD-hemp has stayed in the basement, resisting any pull upward as the industry works through the 2019 crop inventory while new harvest beckons in the not too distant future. According to its June Hemp: Benchmarks and...
CBD Suffers from Hangover as Planting Season Begins
The prices for unprocessed hemp for CBD (CBD biomass) and for distilled CBD have consolidated at low levels, according to May data reported by the PanXchange, holding at about 20 percent of last year’s peak prices posted shortly before the harvest started. Around...
CBD Demand High, Fewer CBD-Hemp Acres Expected in Key States in 2020
As part of our evolving coverage of all aspects of the cannabis business, John Lothian News is passing on information and insights about industrial hemp to our readers on a monthly basis. Our partner in this endeavor, PanXchange, last year launched an electronic market for businesses all along the CBD-oriented hemp supply chain.
USDA: Hemp Pilot a Success
Restarting production of a once (and future?) major crop like hemp was fraught with risks.
From Grains to Frac Sand to Hemp
If you had told Julie Lerner eight years ago that the commodity trading platform PanXchange, which she was building with sugar in mind, would grow to support the trading of frac sand, East African grains and hemp, she would have said you are nuts.
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