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D8 Market Stabilizes Prices for Bulk Hemp Cannabinoids
By PanXchange A Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled May 19 that delta-8 THC products are federally legal according ...
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Deregulating and Destigmatizing Hemp Fiber and Grain
Many hurdles stand in industrial hemp’s path to becoming a common rotational crop in the United States. Expensive testing, licensing, ...
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The 6 Core Tenets for CEOs
In 2018, I had the great honor of being recognized by the Denver Business Journal in their Most Admired CEO ...
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The S in ESG
In the latest and one of the most substantial grant opportunities released this year for agriculture-related ESG work, The USDA ...
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Energy & ESG: Finding a Middle Ground
Environmentally conscious practices are necessary for the protection of our shared planet. This is an increasingly popular issue stressed by ...
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Single, Dual, and Tri Crops
Like many crops before it, hemp can be bred and cultivated to optimize a single primary application; fiber, grain, or ...
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How Can Farmers Shorten the Timeline to Produce Carbon Credits?
Due to time constraints and the incentive to produce credits as fast as possible (prices rising), offset project developers (read: ...
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The Carbon Offset Project Framework
The most basic framework to generate carbon offset credit as per the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) guidelines is as follows ...
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Economic Barriers for Cropland Carbon Credits
ESG interest, by way of carbon offset credits, is booming in various industries, spanning energy, infrastructure, transportation, and even agriculture ...
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Agriculture and the Future of Carbon Storage Structures
During the United Nations’ COP26 climate conference in early November, engineering and architectural design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merril (SOM) ...
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Hemp For Houses
Hemp Concrete or hempcrete results from wet mixing a hemp plant’s shredded stem with a lime mineral-based binder to create ...
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A Brief History of the Farmer’s Almanac & Its Relevance in Climate Change
Starting in 1792 during George Washington’s first term as president, The Old Farmers Almanac has become the longest-running periodical in ...
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Why isn’t Hemp Everywhere Now that it’s Legal?
Hemp can be used for furniture, paper, clothing, rope, building material, birdseed, and even ice cream, so why isn’t it? ...
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What to Make of the FSA Hemp Planted Acreage
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) released their initial August planting report yesterday which estimates hemp plantings across all applications at ...
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Hemp Fails the Economic “Taste Test” as an Alt-Meat Additive
PanXchange examines a case study of hemp protein use in retail food products by a company named Craft Foods, and ...
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Between Two Hemp Stalks: Annie Rouse & the Issue of 1% THC in Hemp
Enjoy a transcript of a conversation between PanXchange’s CEO, Julie Lerner, and Annie Rouse, Co-founder of OP Innovates, Overcome, Hemp ...
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Hemp Carbon Footprint
CSU researchers have determined that growing one ounce of the hemp is equivalent to burning up to 60 liters of ...
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So Which Cannabinoid Works Best For What?
Nowadays, there are so many acronyms in the cannabis and hemp industry that unfamiliar people may get lost in confusion ...
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Virtual Conversation Starter: Grandma, do you Use Hemp Products?
The pandemic has made it a tough time for senior citizens who wish to spend time with their loved ones; ...
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The Basics of Microdosing
Microdosing has become a common phrase throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. While so many continue to work from home, some have ...
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2020 is the Year of Cannabis Legalization, but that Doesn’t Make it a Commodity
November 3, 2020 was a clear win for the cannabis industry. Five states passed legislation that legalized some form of ...
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E-Frac Fleets, A Future of Promise or Peril?
An interesting advancement in technology in the oilfield services space is the NOV Ideal e-frac fleet. NOV’s e-frac fleet is ...
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Is my CBD kombucha legal?
Nowadays, CBD seems to be everywhere you go, from your convenience store Kombucha to your local coffee shops CBD latte, ...
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Do you need THC for CBD to work?
The cannabis plant is complex, with over a hundred cannabinoids and terpenes that all have different applications. To those that ...
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Hydraulic Fracturing: A Series of Events in Key Oil Producing States
While hydraulic fracturing activity is, in some cases, governed federally (such as when conducted on federal land), but based on ...
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How to Best Prepare for the Hemp Carbon Credits Market
Carbon stored in soil could soon become a unique subset of commodity crops. This emerging market aims to incentivize the ...
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Between Two Hemp Stalks
Lerner: Often, during industrial hemp harvests, many farmers share with PanXchange their frustration of wasting hemp hurd, so I’m glad ...
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Farm Bill Extension Leaves Opportunities and Hurdles For the Hemp Industry
2020 has been both a year of dynamic transition and reset for the hemp industry. The market is experiencing fundamental ...
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Almond, Soy, Oat, and Even Hemp Milk!
Over the last few years, non-dairy milk has been popping up all over coffee shops and grocery store shelves. This ...
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Severe Weather’s Effect on Biomass & Smokable Flower Supply
PanXchange Blog The American hemp farmer can’t seem to catch a break between the two significant problems they face: legislative ...
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Canadian-US Hemp Grain Market is Heating Up
Before CBD was a product category, hemp grain, oils, and protein were in high demand. Driven by consumer demand for ...
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Liberty acquires Schlumberger’s Hydraulic Fracturing Division (OneStim): The Frac Sand Perspective
In one of the most monumental transactions in the hydraulic fracturing industry to date, Schlumberger (one of the largest oilfield ...
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Why Reporting Your Hemp Acreage to the FSA Matters
We highlight some of our conversations with industry professionals who explain the many ways that underreporting hurts the industry as ...
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Hemp-Filled Public Urinals
The hemp industry has praised the hemp market value for its versatility to be molded and used in hundreds of ...
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What is Delta 8 THC?
Delta 8 THC (D8) is a major cannabinoid present in both hemp and cannabis, mimicking the psychoactive effects of its ...
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A Case Study on Frac Sand and ESG (Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance)
In our latest blog post, we would like to give a high-level summary of a case study on Canadian E&P Crew Energy. Crew ...
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FSA’s August Crop Report – What’s Missing?
The USDA Farm Service Agencies (FSA) Crop Acreage Report on industrial hemp left the PanXchange’s hemp team scratching our collective ...
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Hemp’s Role in Carbon Offset
Even in the hemp industry, virtually all facets, including extraction equipment and greenhouse grows, ultimately have a large carbon footprint ...
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Hemp Customer Due Diligence
After the 2018 Farm Bill, financial institutions have been struggling to come to terms with how to regulate their hemp-related ...
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Hemp Transparency: Where Does the Hemp Plastic Go?
Over the last few years, hemp has received plenty of fame for its potential environmental impacts that come from its ...
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The Frontier of Rig Platform Robotics
Rig platforms are often in remote locations with harsh, dangerous environments and limited resources for human operators on site. That ...
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Lower Costs, Optimize Supply Chain, Emerge Stronger from the Downturn
During periods of low oil prices, industry players commonly perform “look back” exercises to lower their costs and optimize their ...
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The Oilfield Equipment Market
In North Dakota, a used Caterpillar Oil swabbing rig which would cost over $500,000 new was sold for $27,500 (a ...
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Hemp Horse Bedding – A Look Into the Florida Market
Driving north on i75, from Tampa to Tallahassee, is what some consider to be a boring drive. Views solely consist ...
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The Intersection of Hemp and Marijuana
Cannabis Sativa L. is a genus or family of plants, whereunder Federal and State laws have subdivided the greater industry ...
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Oil and Gas Technology – Efficient, Flexible & Scalable
Advancements in technology are best implemented under the correct context, and in oil and gas, a significant talking point with ...
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Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Virtually every physical commodity market (even specialty markets such as industrial hemp and specialty sand for the energy industry) is currently experiencing a significant oversupply scenario. ...
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Effects of the Ethanol Market on CBD Industry
Financial and commodity markets, regardless of the industry, have changed due to the outbreak of COVID-19. ...
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Painting a Picture: The Perils of US Shale
The team at PanXchange wanted to shed some perspective on how calamitous of a downturn this has been for the ...
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The Hemp Marathon
These rulings continue, despite a federal decision to de-schedule hemp as a controlled substance and forty-seven individual states adopting some ...
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Hydraulic Fracturing: Using Machine Learning to Get the “Right Recipe”
The “tried and true” way to assess the performance of an oil well is to compute the total cost per ...
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JPMorgan Commodity Center Symposium: A White Paper on the Seven Stages of Commodity Market Evolution
Ms. Julie Lerner, Chief Executive Officer, PanXchange, participated in the commodity industry panel during the JPMCC’s 3rd Annual International Commodities ...
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The Slow, Painful Post-COVID Oil Price Recovery
An interesting argument was inspired by popular energy analyst and engineer David Ramsden-Wood, who I credit with initially addressing this ...
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Generic Manufacturing: The Buried Treasure Beneath the [Frac] Sand
Frac sand suppliers have struggled in the current market environment. Crude oil prices have crumbled amid a major oversupply (especially ...
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Offshore Crude Oil Storage Trading and Making Record Profits in a Global Market Downturn
Faced with an unprecedented imbalance of supply and demand for crude oil, amid COVID-19 and the OPEC+ fallout, traders have ...
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Physicals, Futures, & Forwards. Know Your Nomenclature
Futures, forwards, cash markets, spot markets, derivatives…. Let’s get the lingo right and get to some more sophisticated price risk ...
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Hemp Biomass Crop Insurance and Price Risk- How to forward sell with @PanXchange
On February 6th, 2020, the USDA released details of three types of crop insurance for US growers of industrial hemp. This ...
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