Yearly Archives: 2025

Quality, Certified Seed Lots NWG’s Certified seed production encompasses many steps. This process begins by paying close attention to the weather at harvest time, having adequate drying equipment, and cleaning to strict specifications, even if it means a higher rate of “clean-out” or yield reduction. We then follow up with rigorous testing of every single seed lot. This quality control and certification process ensures only the best seed makes it to your fields. Seed Cleaning Producing high-quality seed is a meticulous process involving several crucial steps. Through rigorous cleaning techniques, such as air-screening and gravity separation, impurities and unwanted debris are effectively removed, ensuring a much cleaner product that advances to the next stage. Once the seeds are cleaned, they undergo a rigorous conditioning process. Conditioning enhances the seed's viability and vigor, ensuring optimal germination rates and robust plant growth. This involves carefully controlling factors like temperature, humidity, and moisture content. Subjecting the seeds to these optimum conditions further improves their high performance, setting the stage for successful crop production. See the video below of our seed cleaning and conditioning in action Quality Assurance Certification plays a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity and reliability of high-quality seed. Certified seed goes through stringent third-party testing to meet specific quality standards. These standards include purity, germination rates, and freedom from weed seeds and invasive species. Certification gives farmers peace of mind that they can confidently rely on the quality and performance of the seed they purchase, ultimately [...]

Agronomic Excellence Achieves Greater Yields NWG is invested in the US hemp industry and building a future with knowledgeable, experienced, and successful hemp farmers. Our Agronomic Excellence Package educates and empowers farmers to maximize hemp yields, minimize risk, and optimize hemp in their crop rotation.   Farmers’ use of our Agronomic Excellence Package consistently leads to improved yields. This makes for a busy season and year for our agronomy team, but it is well worth it to see our customers succeed. “Daniel was the 2nd person from the NWG team that reached out when we started growing hemp. He has been there for us every step of the way. Whether it’s agronomy advice, seed depth, plant population, or harvest advice, he is always willing to offer help. Both years we grew hemp; he came to look at the crop and gave advice to make it better. His knowledge, along with his passion for growing hemp, makes life as a grower easier and stress free!” – NWG Customer, Idaho Farmer NWG Agronomic Excellence Package A purchase of NWG seed is backed by 11 years of breeding and production learning from our experienced agronomy team. Processors and producers alike get peace of mind from having a team at their side to support them through new crop production and achieve grain and fiber specifications. Find out more about our Agronomic Excellence Package and get connected with an NWG agronomist today. AGRONOMY Success starts at the seed, and ends with agronomic [...]

Hemp Sustainability Traits NWG investigates hemp's sustainability traits. Recent peer-reviewed university research largely confirms long-standing anecdotal observations. However, academic studies remain in the early stages, mostly beginning with 2021 USDA programs and limited to annual trials. Hemp’s Carbon Intensity Score Carbon Intensity (CI) scores measure greenhouse gas emissions associated with a production lifecycle. Lower scores indicate less environmental impact, with zero being carbon neutral. For farms, CI scores quantify carbon-based energy used in grain production, guiding practice improvements like cover cropping and reduced tilling. Hemp's lower input needs give it CI advantages over many other broad-acre crops. In private markets, low CI scores can earn crop premiums. AMPLIFY has a better CI score than most hemp varieties, simply due to its drastically increased yields, thus a more efficient use of land and inputs. NWG anticipates future incentives for soil sequestration and water efficiency in nature markets. Use this simple calculator from Iowa State to estimate your CI score today! Calculate your CI Score Hemp and Pesticide Use A 2023 literature review of industrial hemp at Oregon State University found that “Hemp plants have been shown to reduce the quantity of a limited number of nematode species and certain fungi in soils, and hemp may be grown without chemical pesticides.” This study also found that incorporating hemp into a rotation improves many soil health properties. Research Article Hemp and Water Use Efficiency Industrial Hemp Requires Less Water than Cotton and Corn. Industrial hemp is [...]