Incoming Seed Specifications 2023
Industrial Hemp Harvest and Storage - Best Management Practices
Basic information on FINOLA Agronomy
Name: James Vosper BSCHons, FRGS
Company: GoodEarth Resources PTY Ltd (ABN 79 124 022 859)
We submit that industrial hemp be seriously considered as a crop that can contribute significantly to the Australian Government’s aim to reduce global atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Industrial hemp has been scientifically proven to absorb more CO2 per hectare than any forest or commercial crop and is therefore the ideal carbon sink. In addition, the CO2 is permanently bonded within the fiber that is used for anything from textiles, to paper and as a building material. It is currently being used by BMW in Germany to replace plastics in car construction. It is therefore additional to what would otherwise be grown or sourced from oil. It can be constantly replanted and as such meets permanence criteria as defined by the Kyoto Protocol.
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Business Case for Carbon Soil Sequestration & Industrial Hemp Production
Industrial Hemp Association of Queensland Inc (www.ihaq.com.au)
Because of its unique properties for carbon bio-sequestration, as an export food crop in times of uncertainty to world food security, and as a contributor to eco-friendly building materials science and bio energy, it is clear that fast growing industrial hemp is a major asset in the fight against climate change
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Effects of Break Crops on Yield and Grain Protein Concentration of Barley in a Boreal Climate
Ling Zou 1*, Markku Yli-Halla 2, Frederick L. Stoddard 1, Pirjo S. A. Mäkelä 1. Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2 Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Rotation with dicotyledonous crops to break cereal monoculture has proven to be beneficial to successive cereals. In two fields where the soil had been subjected to prolonged, continu- ous cereal production, two 3-year rotation trials were established. In the first year, faba bean, turnip rape and barley were grown, as first crops, in large blocks and their residues tilled into the soil after harvest. In the following year, barley, buckwheat, caraway, faba Citation: Zou L, Yli-Halla M, Stoddard FL, Mäkelä bean, hemp and white lupin were sown, as second crops, in each block and incorporated ei- PSA (2015) Effects of Break Crops on Yield and ther at flowering stage (except barley) or after harvest
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Energy crops in rotation. A review
Walter Zegada-Lizarazu, Andrea Monti*
Department of Agroenvironmental Science and Technology, University of Bologna, Viale G. Fanin, 44 e 40127, Bologna, Italy
The area under energy crops has increased tenfold over the last 10 years, and there is large consensus that the demand for energy crops will further increase rapidly to cover several millions of hectares in the near future. Information about rotational systems and effects of energy crops should be therefore given top priority. Literature is poor and fragmentary on this topic, especially about rotations in which all crops are exclusively dedicated to energy end uses
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Hemp production in the EU
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The Presence Of Ergot In Hemp
Ergot (Claviceps species) does not grow on hemp or other dicots, but Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a fungus that may grow on the hemp stem under sufficiently wet conditions in late summer. At first it grows as a white fluffy mass on the main stem, about 30-50 cm above the ground, which basically kills the plant. Afterwards the hard black sclerotia of this fungus (S. sclerotiorum) will form in most cases.
Ergot is shaped like a monocot grain (sharp at both ends) while the sclerotia of Sclerotinia is shorter and rounded at the ends).
HOWEVER- if hemp follows a monocot grain crop in rotation, like oat, barley or rye, then the monocot volunteers (in the hemp crop) will certainly produce Ergot under damp conditions, usually in late summer. The only way to avoid that is to never sow hemp after a monocot crop in rotation.
Ideally, hemp should follow a tuber crop (like beets or potato), where hemp roots can help to clean pesky tuber nematodes from the soil.
Jace Callaway, Finola 15.8.24
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