WASHINGTON (March 15, 2022) – Hemp is an environmentally and economically sustainable crop—it enriches soil, requires little water, can sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and has the potential for a wide range of applications. However, ...
Photo by Dr. Jessica Lubell-BrandThis story was originally published by Hemp Grower By Patrick WilliamsThe year was 2016. Cannabinoid hemp breeder Oregon CBD tried to produce feminized seed, but it found its crop had been pollinated—and not wi...
Originally published on Lancaster Farming.On this week’s podcast, we talk to Seth Crawford, founder of Oregon CBD, one of the leaders in hemp seed production and breeding. Oregon CBD always seems to be one step ahead of the industry and they j...
Representatives from Medicinal Genomics, Eurofins BioDiagnostics, and Oregon CBD will provide an overview about how the CannSNP90 chip was created and validated and how it can be applied to targeted breeding projects and research projects.Attendees o...
Originally published in the Cannabis ScientistWhy is it innovative?If female Cannabis sativa plants are pollinated (by pollen from a rogue male/hermaphrodite plant on the same site or drifting across from a neighbor’s farm) it causes the plant to p...
Female cannabis plants are often threatened by male pollen coming from a neighbor's garden. Now though, regular breeding has created the first cannabis triploid plants. This naturally occurring plant type not only is impervious to unexpected pollen, ...
CannMed introduces our co-owner, Seth Crawford, PhD for coffee talk about where we as a company are going.What is CannMed? CannMed is known for showcasing the greatest minds in cannabis science, medicine, cultivation, and safety. CannMed w...
By David Bienenstock - Originally published on Leafly“You can’t patent a plant, man.”You may have heard that late one night while passing around a doobie—and it sure sounds right. After all, how could a capitalist enterprise be given leg...
By Pete Danko – Staff Reporter, Portland Business JournalSeth and Eric Crawford, the brothers behind Oregon CBD, are responding to the devastation of the coronavirus by planning to grow a really big garden this year.No, it's not their so...
By Pete Danko – Staff Reporter, Portland Business JournalFew Oregon companies have ever grown as quickly as Oregon CBD.Founded in 2015 by brothers Seth and Eric Crawford, it became an indispensable provider of hemp seeds that farmers could co...
By Pete Danko – Staff Reporter, Portland Business JournalNov 21, 2019, 6:25pm ESTAfter a cold, soggy end to summer and start to fall, fair weather came to the Northern Willamette Valley. For a couple of weeks, stretching over Halloween and in...
The hemp world is constantly evolving, and rapidly. When — or if — it shifts to where Hemptown USA has placed a big bet will be one of the more interesting questions of 2020.The company, incorporated in Canada but with its major operations in Ore...