{"id":70430,"date":"2020-01-15T07:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=70430"},"modified":"2020-01-10T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:49:11","slug":"new-holland-announces-partnership-with-national-hemp-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-holland-announces-partnership-with-national-hemp-association\/","title":{"rendered":"New Holland Announces Partnership with National Hemp Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Partnership Will Develop Educational Outreach for Farmers to Build America\u2019s Newest Sustainable and Versatile Commodity Crop<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Alliance to Lay the Foundation of an Integrated North American Hemp Supply Chain and Calls on Partners to Join \u201cHemp Pledge\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0NHA Commits to Creating and Funding New \u201cHemp Farmer Educational Fund\u201d to Assist Farmers in Converting to Hemp Production<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>It was announced today at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, that New Holland Agriculture, one of the world\u2019s leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer, based in New Holland PA, has partnered with the National Hemp Association, the nation\u2019s leading non-partisan hemp advocacy group based in Washington D.C., to accelerate the return of hemp commodity crop onto farmlands across North America, under the banner \u201cPushing Progress Together\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of this partnership, the National Hemp Association will participate alongside New Holland at 16 national farm shows throughout North America to build out this sustainable new industry and will provide educational sessions and panel discussions as well as exhibit the multitude of products that can be produced from the hemp crop.<\/p>\n<p>The alliance will also seek to move forward on solving the industry\u2019s biggest challenge: the absence of commercial scale harvesting and decortication equipment uniting the demand of the product to the farmers that supply it. In order to begin laying the foundation of an integrated North American hemp supply chain, the alliance calls on other partners \u2013 corporations and entities to join a \u201cHemp Pledge\u201d and commit to purchasing hemp grown and processed in the U.S. by U.S. farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see this exclusive partnership as a way to bring the nation\u2019s leading hemp advocates and educators to events where they can respond to the issues of most concern to farmers, manufacturers, processors and the general public\u201d, says Brett Davis, Vice President, New Holland, North America. \u201cIt too will provide New Holland with the opportunity to hear from our dealer network, our customers and the more than 115,000 farmers who are looking to New Holland to bring forward supply chain solutions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 legalized hemp as a national commodity crop.\u00a0 It builds upon the success seen through the hemp pilot programs by allowing states to permit large scale commercial growing and processing.\u00a0 This new legislation also removed the federal barriers in place that have stifled the industry, which will help expand the domestic production of hemp. It will also give hemp researchers the chance to apply for competitive federal grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture \u2013 allowing them to continue their impressive work with the support of federal research dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2018 Farm Bill which contains the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 is the only legislation that we know of that both Senators McConnell and Schumer agree upon,\u201d said NHA Chair and PAHIC President Geoff Whaling.\u00a0 \u201cYet we know that the biggest challenge facing this crop and restricting its return is commercial scale harvesting and decortication equipment.\u00a0 Without that solution, all of the promise for hemp \u2013 for the food, feed, construction, automotive, energy and textile industry will not be realized.\u00a0 Our partnership with New Holland Agriculture will be the beginning steps towards that end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Hemp Association has also committed to creating and funding a new \u201cHemp Farmer Educational Fund\u201d to assist farmers with agricultural, regulatory and production issues related to converting to hemp production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Pennsylvania rooted partnership is very big step to building the national supply chain\u201d said PA State Senator Schwank, the leading proponent of industrial hemp legislation in the PA Senate. \u201cTogether we need to provide any legislative fixes that are necessary as well as ensure the resources and tools are available to assist and help the industry move forward\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About New Holland Agriculture<\/h3>\n<p>New Holland is a global brand of agricultural machinery produced by CNH Industrial. New Holland agricultural products include tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment, hobby tractors, utility vehicles and implements, and grape harvesters.<\/p>\n<h3>About the National Hemp Association<\/h3>\n<p>NHA is a non-profit corporation, based in Washington D.C. with more than 50,000 supporters and members, is dedicated to the development of the domestic hemp industry. This goal will be attained by coordinating legislation, agricultural organizations, farmers, processors, manufacturers, and retailers. The promotion of the hemp industry is congruent with the desire to improve the environment through production and utilization of hemp farming and products. We see a direct relationship between the products we use and stewardship of the land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Contacts<\/h3>\n<p>New Holland Agriculture<br \/>\nJon Hundleym, Marketing Manager<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:jon.hundley@newholland.com\" target=\"_blank\">jon.hundley@newholland.com<\/a><br \/>\nPhone: 717-355-3301<\/p>\n<p>National Hemp Association<br \/>\nErica Stark, Executive Director<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:erica@nationalhempassociation.org\" target=\"_blank\">erica@nationalhempassociation.org<br \/>\n<\/a>Phone: 202-706-3911<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership Will Develop Educational Outreach for Farmers to Build America\u2019s Newest Sustainable and Versatile Commodity Crop \u00a0Alliance to Lay the Foundation of an Integrated North American Hemp Supply Chain and Calls on Partners to Join \u201cHemp Pledge\u201d \u00a0NHA Commits to Creating and Funding New \u201cHemp Farmer Educational Fund\u201d to Assist Farmers in Converting to Hemp [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,11885,11877],"supplier":[16561,16562],"class_list":["post-70430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-hemp","tag-naturalfibres","supplier-national-hemp-association","supplier-new-holland-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70430"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=70430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}