Do the Hemp folks ever Buy the Stalks & Stems from the Med./ Rec. Cannabis Growers ?

[St. Phatty]

The way that Cannabis is handled in the US is so illogical - and so wasteful.

All the parts of the plant are useful, including the roots, from talking to some people.

Why don't Hemp Processors buy the Stems from the Medical & Recreational Growers, when they're done Manicuring ?

They got these piles of Stems, which normally get thrown away or composted.

The Stems are near-chemically identical.

 

[William76]

No thc in them tho.76

 

[Chunkypigs]

The way that Cannabis is handled in the US is so illogical - and so wasteful.

All the parts of the plant are useful, including the roots, from talking to some people.

Why don't Hemp Processors buy the Stems from the Medical & Recreational Growers, when they're done Manicuring ?

They got these piles of Stems, which normally get thrown away or composted.

The Stems are near-chemically identical.

hemp farming is not profitable in the US, flower selling at $3-5 a pound this year and not many buyers compared to growers.

where will they get money to buy your stems and why would they want them?

 

[goingrey]

Price is the obvious reason, you would need a lot of it just to cover transportation fees. Never mind the $3-$5 per pound for hemp flower, for fiber it was $0.12/pound in 2021: https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.c...ndustry-nihc-panxchange-textiles-2020-trends/

But mulching/composting isn't a total waste.

 

[[Maschinenhaus]]

They got these piles of Stems, which normally get thrown away or composted.

Here the stalks of fiber hemp become cigarette paper with flavor, menthol, and so on.

A friend develops pumps for it as an engineer and brought me a can of ground powder consisting of 100% hemp stalks.

For years, hemp has been used in the interior of vehicles for sound insulation and even pressed parts that look like plastic.

The forefather of the idea that hemp could be used in the automotive industry was none other than Henry Ford. Decades ago, he presented a vehicle model that was built from hemp and even filled up with hemp fuel. In 1941, the trade magazine Popular Mechanics reported that he had spent twelve years working on his idea and researching how he could incorporate hemp into the vehicle.

Rudolf Diesel, who once invented the diesel engine, was also involved and contributed his know-how so that Ford's hemp vehicle could have run on hemp fuel. Ford's vehicle weighed only 900 kilograms. The heaviest part was the steel frame. The rest of the vehicle was made up of 70 percent sisal, hemp and wheat straw, with the necessary resin-based glue accounting for the remaining 30 percent.

So much natural fiber is in a vehicle today

Using natural fibers in automotive production is a really good idea. It is no coincidence that, on average, several kilograms of natural fibers are already used in every vehicle today. Banana fibers, flax, coconut, olive stones, sisal and, of course, hemp are used. While the car manufacturer Lotus presented its Eco Elise, a vehicle in which parts of the body and the spoiler were made from hemp, many individual components of today's vehicles are made from natural fibers: the processed kernels of the olive are used for tank ventilation. Sisal and cotton are used for insulation. The interior of the seat backs is made of coconut, flax or hemp, and the hollows of the spare wheels could have been fabricated from banana fibers.

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