Cultivation | Cannabis Equipment News (CEN)

Marijuana plants growing at GB Sciences Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Aug. 6, 2019.

Study Calls for Cannabis Genome Project

A coordinated scientific effort is needed to unlock the full potential of cannabis for agriculture and human health.

Shein Latt, left, leaves a local court after being arrested for operating a marijuana plantation in Ngazun Township, Myanmar, May 7, 2019.

US-Owned Hemp Farm Employee Gets 20 Years

Shein Latt was one of three people arrested last spring when police raided a farm in central Myanmar.

H2O Flow Pro technology is a smart system that learns the normal pattern of flow for each zone and then interrupts the logic of normal controllers when inappropriately high or low flows are detected.

Wireless Water Management System Gets Patent

Wireless flow sensors, which remove expensive digging and trenching costs, are poised to be a disruptor in the marketplace.

Industrial hemp awareness workshop in Blantyre, Malawi, July 2015.

Malawi Legalizes Cannabis Cultivation

The African nation is looking for an alternative crop to tobacco.

This undated photo shows a seizure of 6,701 pounds cannabis that the owner says is industrial hemp but that Idaho authorities said was marijuana.

Scanner Distinguishes Hemp, Marijuana

A handheld spectrometer can quickly determine the level of THC in cannabis plants.

Horticulture professor Larry Smart examines industrial hemp plants growing in a greenhouse at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York.

Why Hemp 'Goes Hot'

Study says it's genetics, not growing conditions.

Souriau industrial connectors are ideal for smart agriculture.

Industrial Connectors

Connected equipment is making modern agriculture more intelligent.

In this April 23, 2018, file photo, Trevor Eubanks, plant manager for Big Top Farms, shovels dried hemp as branches hang drying in barn rafters overhead at their production facility near Sisters, Ore. Draft rules released by the United States Department of Agriculture for a new and booming agricultural hemp industry have alarmed farmers, processors and retailers across the country, who say the provisions will be crippling if they are not significantly overhauled before they become final.

Proposed Rules Worry US Hemp Industry

Growers are concerned the government wants to use a heavy hand that could result in many crops failing required tests and being destroyed.

Nasal Ranger from St. Croix Sensory is a portable olfactometer.

Nasal Ranger Sniffs Out Plants in Mich.

The device will be used to crack down on the smell of blooming plants.

In this Dec. 12, 2019, photo, small-scale farmer Itumeleng Tau stands among his cannabis plants in a hothouse in Krugersdorp, South Africa.

Farmers Fight to Enter Marijuana Market

As the nation relaxes its cannabis laws, black farmers who spent decades in a formerly illegal industry may miss out on the potential boom.

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Shadowbox Farms to Expand Into Calif.

California’s legal cannabis market is on track to be the largest in the world.

Wisconsin Gov.-elect Tony Evers in Madison, Jan. 2, 2019.

Evers Signs Wis. Hemp Bill

The bipartisan measure makes the state's increasingly popular hemp-growing program permanent.