Please try doing the numbers derps, just once.
I have said it 100 times--show how you can grow and sell, and I shut up.
Decortication per acre in Canada is $85.00CAD or about $68.40 USD.
So start there--how much gross revenue from just that process in HEMP inc facility rated at 3,000 acre through-put. Will you please answer that.
Then move on to growing hemp. LAND + input costs (avg $280) plus labor and profit--show it compete with corn and show us how much an acre of hemp will need to sell for just to match corn--a READY fungible market.
Now show all the factory - ready facilities to use hemp as a raw product. Oh, you think they will change over?--Tell us the retooling costs involved--list majors who are converting to hemp fiber by name and source.
You seem hung up on an injustice of years gone by. SO?
Why hasn't it been allowed?--becasue a eon ago technology and costs made it relevant in many industries that major owners wanted to protect themselves in. Its called competitive edge, right or wrong I am not saying--just that it is a matter of history.
But that was then and this is now.
You can't grow this stuff competitively in the USA. All kinds of farmers in Oregon and Colorado ALREADY crying the blues on the bottom falling out on seed and oil. Only so many Whole Foods and seed eaters.
You make an issue out of retail--what you MISS is the Value Added Processing is all done overseas at that ergonomic advantage--even HEMP inc's Cosmetics come from CHINA--LOL!!!!!
Sorry, it just ain't working--if it did Corporate farmers would have had laws passed and been growing a decade's ago. That's what nobody gets. You think the GOV says no to Monsanto and ADM? Don't like them--well that's another discussion--but the reality is if they WANTED hemp--it would have been here already.
It's an easy do for legislature--they look great and SOOO worried about the farmer and pass go nowhere bills, which are really stepping stones to CANNABIS legislation.
Your heart might be in the right place but the economics say NO. Its really just that simple, and by virtue of where this is all at right now--blatantly obvious.
But I will give you one point. Hemp and HEMP inc are two entirely different issues, and as this board is about HEMP the COMPANY, maybe we should focus on the direct actions (or inaction) of that entity, and let hemp fiber follow its own fate?
