Navigating Your Options to Achieve Clean Cannabis February 6, 2023 Don Naugler Post Harvest 0 Comments Improving Your Post-Harvest Remediation Strategy is The Best Way to Ensure Product Passes Microbial Testing Dangers of Microbial Growth: Cannabis operations of all sizes risk exposure to biological contaminants, like mold, yeast, aspergillus, E. Coli, Salmonella, and other harmful pathogens.… Read More→
From Coke to Cannabis: Green Mill Supercritical CEO Wes Reynolds’s Road to Extraction May 31, 2022 Tom Hymes From Mainstream to Cannabis, Spotlight 0 Comments The fact that Pittsburgh-based Green Mill Supercritical CEO Wes Reynolds made the decision to upend a 20-year career at Coca-Cola for the uncertainty of cannabis is probably incredible to consider for most people, but the way he explained his thinking… Read More→
The Valens Company CEO Tyler Robson on Creating a One-Stop-Shop for Cannabis January 12, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Spotlight 0 Comments The Valens Company (NASDAQ/TSX: VLNS) is a Kelowna, BC-based cannabis multi-state company with a very distinctive structure and objective. At first glance, it may look like just another extraction company but look again and its shape shifts into that of… Read More→
Agrify Corp’s Raymond Chang on Creating Holistic Solutions for the Cannabis Industry November 17, 2021 Tom Hymes Ancillary Businesses, Spotlight 0 Comments NASDAQ-traded, Massachusetts-based Agrify Corporation (AGFY) calls itself a “vertically integrated provider of premium cultivation and extraction solutions for the cannabis and hemp industry,” but that description, apt as it may be, only tells part of the story of this multilayered… Read More→
The 2018 Farm Bill is Growing More than Just Hemp on the Farm October 13, 2020 John A. MacKay, Ph.D. Science and Technology 0 Comments A look at some companies expanding their traditional market to meeting the challenges of a regulated market working on narrowing margins I have added a verse to “Old McDonald Had a Farm.”[1] Old McDonald had a farm,E-I-E-I-O And on this… Read More→
Getting Started in Hemp Extraction: Step Two, Part One: Choose & Design Facility February 10, 2020 Laura Breit, PE Best Practices, Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments When designing cultivation facilities or other business types, the design process typically starts with first choosing a property, then choosing a building, and then designing the equipment and systems to outfit the building. When it comes to hemp extraction, we… Read More→
Getting Started in Hemp Extraction: Step One: Choose Processing Method October 7, 2019 Laura Breit, PE Best Practices, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments Thanks to the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp is legalized federally and continuing to expand in popularity. Last year, the United States saw nearly 80,000 acres of licensed industrial hemp grown in 23 states (more than tripled from the year prior),… Read More→
Look to the Combination of Extraction Processes for Your Ingredients March 5, 2019 John A. MacKay, Ph.D. Hemp Industry News, Processing, Science and Technology 0 Comments By John A. MacKay, Ph.D. There are many ways to extract and separate the compounds that the cannabis plant produces during its life cycle. At Waters Corporation people assumed that Waters instruments focused solely on supercritical fluid (SCF) technology. The… Read More→
Cannabis Patent Litigation Update: Is Extraction and Preparation Prior Art? March 4, 2019 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Jihee Ahn, Attorney at Harris Bricken About six months ago, we posted news of the first ever cannabis patent infringement case. As a reminder, the case was initiated by United Cannabis Corporation (“UCANN”) in the United States District Court, District… Read More→
Defining the BEST Extraction Methods for Hemp May 4, 2015 John A. MacKay, Ph.D. Science and Technology 1 Comment I am often asked, “What is the “best” extraction?” The key to this answer is that you must assume unintended consequences until proven right. I have a suggestion to present, and I assume the right to adapt and revise it.… Read More→
Making Extraction Productive March 10, 2015 John A. MacKay, Ph.D. Science and Technology 0 Comments By John A. MacKay, Ph.D. Extraction. The word is itself sounds harsh. For me, it immediately brings to mind images of a dentist armed with a drill and sharp tools and, of course, pain. I have images like those from… Read More→