World Organic News - Mrjonmoore - Conservation Farming, Permaculture, Organic Gardening, Organic Farming, Climate Change.

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com Could Ireland Use Hemp As Biomass? – Dublin Hemp Museum – Medium — Cannabis News World http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fBi California to list herbicide as cancer-causing; Monsanto vows fight | Reuters — GLOBAL MEDIA  SENTRY http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fCw **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 3rd of July 2017. Jon Moore reporting! We begin this week with piece on the revival of an old plant: Hemp. Not the wacky tobaccy type but the “Grow Hemp for Victory” type from World War Two. A little background. Hemp has been grown for millennia as a fibre. It makes good, hard wearing cloth, Henry Ford used it to build a prototype vehicle, that is as the panels for said prototype vehicle and the navies of the world used it to create lines and ropes. A further aside, any rope under one inch in diameter is called a line or sheet and any line or sheet greater than one inch in diameter is called a rope. Hence the “Grow Hemp for Victory” push by the US government as they built huge n