Posted by paul on October 12, 2018 at 02:45:47 from (66.60.223.229):
In Reply to: Crop storage posted by DeltaRed on October 11, 2018 at 19:50:19:
Back in the 1940s a good tough fiber was something special, and hemp fibers were quite a deal to develop, it would have been big.
Today a whole lot of synthetic fibers can be blended into nearly and fiber one needs, stronger, rot proof, abrasion resistant, non absorbent, all types of properties. There is far less -need- for natural fibers on an industrial scale.
Lots of milenials have gotten on the ‘we need hemp to save the family farm’ bandwagon, without understanding the laws of supply and demand and how time and technology has moved on.
Ultimately, the demand for the fiber will never get very big, so it will be a small deal.
It’s fine, any few 100 or thousand acres of alternative crop is indeed an alternative.
The biggest market appears to be making tee shirts of the fibers (by beating the natural toughness out of them, ironically) with a pot leaf logo screened on it?
Really in the big picture, I’m not sure such ‘demand’ is going to turn agriculture around.
Jerusilum artichoke and emus might make a comeback sooner!
The window of opportunity for it to be a big deal came and went as the synthetic fibers have been developed.
It will be a nitche, but it won’t be the big deal you hear.
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