NEW WEST GENETICS IN THE MEDIA
NWG IN THE NEWS
- Performance – Genetics and Agronomy Come Together
- How is hybrid hemp seed produced at scale?
- NWG AMPLIFY® SBIR Grant Project
- Hemp Seed Meal Achieves Monumental Milestone on Path to Federal Approval
- Fiber and Grain Focus of Lancaster County Hemp Field Days
- NWG Named Top Independent Seed Company
- HudsonAlpha and New West Genetics collaborate on USDA-NIFA grant
- NWG Awarded Grant from OEDIT’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program
- Planting Density & NWG Fiber Varieties
- Pre-emergent Herbicide Labeled for Hemp
- Indoor AgTech: Demonstrating Solutions for the Future of Farming
- The CDA Hemp Networking Directory
- Midwest Hemp Technology Brings More Processing Power to Kansas
- Accurate Hemp Data Requires Collaboration by Lancaster Farming
- Two Hemp Project to Receive Grants in USDA Climate Smart Commodities Awards
- USDA Awards $21 Million for Two Hemp Research Projects
- Industrial Hemp Has a Field Day to Discuss Farming Techniques
- New West Genetics: Blazing a Genomic Trail for Hemp
- Sen. Michael Bennet tours ARDEC research stations to learn how agriculture is working on climate change solutions
- PBS12 PRESENTS Hemp: Colorado’s Next Green Rush
PRESS RELEASES
- Hemp Seed Meal Achieves Monumental Milestone on Path to Federal Approval
- NEW WEST GENETICS ANNOUNCES AMPLIFY™ HYBRIDS GRANTED CERTIFIED SEED STATUS BY AOSCA
- NWG AMPLIFY™, A Hybrid Hemp Seed, is Poised to Transform the Hemp Supply Chain.
- HudsonAlpha and New West Genetics collaborate on USDA-NIFA grant
- Hemp Industry Coalition Advocates Policy Reform that Leverages Seed Certification
- Announcing NWG AMPLIFY™: a genetic trait that doubles hemp yields
- New West Genetics Obtains Certified Seed Status for their ABOUND® Family
- New West Genetics Obtains Certified Seed Status for their ABOUND® Family
- Hemp Feed Coalition submits the first ingredient application in the United States for hemp to be federally approved as a feed ingredient for poultry
- New West Genetics, Inc. High CBD Hemp Seed Soon to be Available in Canada
NWG SPONSORSHIPS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Genotype x Environment x Management Symposium University of Florida
- University of Kentucky Hemp Education Sessions & Field Day
- University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences CPSC Seminar
- Kings AgriSeeds Field Day
- NOCO Hemp Expo 2023
- PlantACT! Conference; Plants for Climate Action – Growing a Resilient Society
- Quantitative Genetics and Genomics GRC
- S1084: Industrial Hemp Production, Processing, and Marketing in the U.S. multi-state research project
- OSU GHIC’s National Hemp Industry Research Needs Workshop
- Moving Hemp Forward with Mandi Kerr, Eric Singular, and Wendy Mosher
Colorado Department of Agriculture Press Releases
12.11.2019 Colorado Department of Agriculture announces 2019 certified hemp seed varieties
11.6.2018: Colorado Home of the first US-bred Certified Hemp Seed
12.4.2017: CDA Announces Colorado’s 2017 CDA-Approved Certified Hemp Seed Varieties
11.29.2016: CDA Announces Colorado’s Inaugural Hemp “Certified Seed”
NWG GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023: USDA Climate Smart Commodities Hemp Project. PI- Babu Valliyodan, Lincoln University. “Scaling up the industrial hemp supply chain as carbon negative feedstock for fuel and fiber.” More Info
2023: USDA USDA-NIFA-AFRI. In collaboration with Hudson Alpha. “Unraveling the mechanisms of sex determination in hemp.” More Info
2023: Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade – Advanced Industries Grant. “Commercializing the first Hemp Hybrid: AMPLIFY” More Info
2022: Institute for Cannabis Research. PI- Punya Nachappa, Colorado State University. Examining the adaptive roles of plant defensive chemistry on pest resistance in Hemp. More Info
2021: WellsFargo IN2 Innovation Incubator. “Hemp Root Phenotypes in simulated conditions” More Info
2021: Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade – Advanced Industries Grant. “Beyond CBD: development of food and feed markets and farmer profitability through novel and sustainable hemp genetics”
2020: FFAR grant awarded to Colorado State University Department of Soil and Crop Science, NWG collaborator.
