The Market for Hemp Products
Hemp seeds, oil and protein are classified as “super foods” with nutritional values unrivaled in nature and only recently introduced into the American marketplace. Hemp seeds have ten of the essential amino acids and high concentrations of Omega 3, 6 and 9 essential fatty acids making it one of the most valuable whole foods found anywhere in Nature. Hemp seed oil is used in the production of non dairy milk, cheese, bread and butter.
Hemp is the world’s strongest fiber and the first crop cultivated for textile production dating back over 6,000 years.
Hemp composite boards are twice as strong as wood. As a composite material for automobiles, this remarkable plant fiber is also twice as strong at lighter weights as fiberglass type components. Other applications include use as oils, soaps, lotions, cosmetics, supplements, veterinary applications, construction and fiberglass components.
Hemp yields approximately three tons of fiber per acre, four times the amount produced by trees, saving wildlife habitat, watersheds, oxygen production, and proving its value as a green, renewable Earth friendly resource.
“Why use up the forest which were centuries in making and the mines which required ages to lie down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?” – Henry Ford.
