Many consider hemp the cash crop of today, especially since legal marijuana sales in the U.S. alone are expected to reach $23 billion by 2025. Due to the hype surrounding the market, farmers and tech giants are doing everything they can to enhance the quality of hemp products grown. Kentucky hemp farmer Joseph Sisk says, “Everybody wants to know how to farm hemp, but they don’t realize that everyone already growing hemp does it differently.” With technologies like the Hemp Stripper, Farmbot, Seedbot, a plethora of hydroponic engineering, marijuana agriculture is shaping into something never seen before.
Let’s take the Hemp Stripper for example. After a cannabis plant has been planted, it's time to harvest. After being harvested, the Hemp Stripper robot strips and separates the cannabis plant. The machine strips the plant of leaves, buds, and extra material so that the resulting products are ready to be refined or processed into oils. The interesting part in all of this is that only 1 operator is needed for the Hemp Stripper to do its magic. On the other hand, hands-on harvesting labor takes a village - 40 people could harvest 200 acres in 5 weeks.
In other words, the tech emerging into cannabis agriculture is improving product quality, and efficiency. The Seedo device uses automated hydroponic grow boxes to monitor and take pictures of plants, collect data on humidity, water levels and intake, lighting, nutrients, and can even control temperature. Most importantly, the Seedo device can identify problems in the growth process, and even correct these problems by making changes in real-time.
New growing solutions enable cannabis businesses to grow the highest quality product within the most technologically-futuristic method available. To learn more about the hemp market, take a look at the graphic below.
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