Could a commercial, non-thc, industrial/ag hemp industry help boost struggling rural Colorado economies which have been hit hard by low energy prices and coal mine closings….among other things?
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Hemp On the Slope
July 30 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
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Speakers, Workshops, Exhibitors, Live Music, Hemp Food, Conversation, Networking, Community
July 30, 2016
11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Salt Creek Ranch, Collbran, CO
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"We were saving the ranch. It wasn't selling and we had to come up with a way to cover expenses," said Margaret Richardson, a co-owner at Salt Creek Hemp Company.
After consideration of what to grow, one plant stood above the rest.
"With corn, I think they're talking $300 an acre. This crop [hemp] and with the new emerging market, it's hard to pinpoint an exact price on what we'd get per acre, but let's just say it could easily be ten times to 100 times that," said Aaron Rydell, another co-owner.
It's for that reason, along with the multitude of the plant's uses, that those at Salt Creek Hemp Company believe it will not only save their ranch, but Mesa County's agricultural industry."
Most interesting thing I’ve learned from a little bit of googling...hemp as a replacement for graphene in supercapacitors?
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As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene, long-touted as the model material for supercapacitors. They're presenting their research, which a Canadian start-up company is working on scaling up, at the 248th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
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