Hemp clothes, hempcrete, hemp animal feed! What do they all have in common? They need a very expensive tool to be able to turn an amazing plant into a commoditable product.
Patents for a decorticator exist from the 1900's. Capitalism and corruption soon pushed hemp out of the mainstream farming lexicon through "reefer madness" an insane propaganda task that led to the reclassification as a substance ii narcotic!
Fast forward to today-- recreational and medical marijuana shops are legal in half of the United States, and other nations are leading as well. Sure stoners are happy, but when and where does the industrial applications of hemp start!
The Netherlands, Romania, NZed, Aussie, Kentucky and Colorado are a few of the battlegrounds where corporate cronyism is being fought with the Hemp
Stalk. The sheer amount of oil derived products that can be replaced through community self sustaining hemp farms is staggering.
Scalability gets every industry, and industrial hemp faces one in the processing area. Without a fancy decorticator, hemp must be retted to seperate the woody core (churd) from the cellulose rich leafy material. Retting, or "rotting" degrades both products, limits hatvestable quantities and drastically reduces the available markets for the commodity.
A decorticator must come to Colorado- maybe a farmer owned Co-oP could
Create an erc-20 token for such a venture?!?