Industrial Hemp Australia Ltd

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Industrial Hemp Australia Ltd
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History

• Established 1996
• Incorporated 1998 as AFI Pty Ltd
• Plant breeding program 2003 present
• Pilot plant RD 2004 2006
• PBRs granted on varieties 2008
• Commercial seed production 2009
• Grain processing 2010
• Fibre processing 2012

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Hemp Grain Processing
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Industrial Hemp Grain Crop
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Varieties are selected for high grain yield and
oil content
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Cleaned and washed hemp seed
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Hemp Food Products

• Oil
• Nutritional Supplement
• Salad dressings, etc.
• Seed Cake
• Flour
• Animal feed
• Hemp Nut hulled hemp seed
• Nutrition bars
• Nut butter
• Frozen desserts
• Prepared foods (pesto, salsa, )
• Hemp milk products
• Whole Seed
• Snack Food
• Animal Feed

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What is Hemp Seed?

• Protein / 30
• excellent dietary source of easily digestible,
  gluten-free protein
• Fatty Acids /- 35
• Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) /- 30
• 31 ratio omega-6 omega-3
• gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) /-3
• stearidonic acid (SDA)
• Carbohydrates /- 35
• insoluble fiber /- 30
• soluble fiber /- 3
• sugars /- 2

Courtesy of Hemp Oil Canada
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De hulled hemp seed in various stages of
processing
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Protein powder was used to manufacture a hemp
milk product.
Taste was similar to soy milk but was higher in
natural omega 3 and 6.
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Clarified Hemp oil produced from the pilot oil
plant.
Varieties were tested for oil yield - The
highest yield was 27
Oil from different varieties varied in colour and
taste
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Market Trends Natural Products

• Natural and Organic foods
• Natural and organic foods and beverage categories
  are growing at more than 12, outpacing sales of
  conventional grocery products by more than 4 to
  1.
• American shoppers spent more than 42.8 billion
  on natural and organic products in 2003. Sales of
  organic products rose 19 percent in natural
  products stores in 2003.
• Healthy fats replacing trans fats
• headline issues such as trans fatty acids and the
  obesity epidemic have challenged consumer
  confidence in mainstream goods, contributing to
  slack sales.
• by January 2006, under new U.S. Food and Drug
  Administration regulations, all food marketers
  will have to disclose the level of trans fats in
  their packaged products.

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Hemp Fibre Processing
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Potential uses for fibre

• Particle board
• Fibre for concrete reinforcement blocks and
  aerated concrete
• Cement fibre board sheeting
• Fibre for imported glass replacement composite
  plastics
• Cloth, carpets, carpet underlay, canvas
• Auto linings door panels, dashboards

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Co operative product research
The system involves manufacturing wall panels on
site and filling the cavity with hemp reinforced
concrete to give significantly lighter walls and
better insulation properties.
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Co operative product research
Research co operator, manufactured a range of
wall cladding and insulation boards from both
bast fibre and hurd fibre.
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Plant Breeding
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Plant Breeding Project Bundaberg
Parent lines are selected for agronomic
characteristics
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Breeding for low THC content
Molecular arrangement of ?9 THC
Legal limit0.5 ?9 THC
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Marijuana
Industrial Hemp
IHA have developed a system to breed out THC from
Hemp. THC levels have been reduced from 0.5 to
0.05 in 5 years
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F2 Backcross to low THC lines F2 crosses grew to
3m with 12 exceeding 0.3 THC but below 1. 12
lines selected Planned selections from screened
lines is expected to produce varieties with less
than 0.2 THC within 2-3 generations while
increasing yield and quality potential
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The ability to process a range of varieties
allowed AFI to select the best cultivars for
registration for Plant Breeders Rights.
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Fibre pilot plant operations
Samples from each test variety is hand harvested
and weighed
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Fibre pilot plant operations
Bast fibre was collected after processing
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Fibre pilot plant operations
Bast fibre from each sample is weighed to
determine yield . Fibre varieties must be above
25 bast fibre
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Fibre pilot plant operations
Each sample is assessed for the amount of hurds
remaining after processing. Varieties ranged from
1 to 7 and this is used as one of the major
criteria for quality assessment.
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IHA future seed production

• Mother seed plots for hybrid seed labour
  intensive but seasonal
• Secondary increase production high management
  input - high gross margin
• Seed processing - drying, grading, packing and
  storage.

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IHA seed production

• Each variety must be 5 km from nearest plot of
  different variety
• Hybrid breeding requires removal of male plants
  by hand, and close management
• Growers must be licensed and crops monitored
  closely.

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IHA seed processing

• A small secure facility to dry, clean, grade and
  package seed
• Storage of up to 1000 t by 2014 for fibre
  varieties
• Controlled Atmosphere storage of packaged seed
• Seed testing facilities.
• Qualified staff for crop management and quality
  monitoring,

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Market trends
Outlook

• Environmental issues are pushing up world demand
  for fibre
• Public acceptance of hemp as a food is increasing
  world wide
• Health benefits of hemp oil are becoming more
  widely known
• Technological advances in processing creates new
  uses
• Higher prices for other grains and protein
  sources
• Shortage of hemp grain and products (protein and
  oil)
• Shortage of suitable hemp varieties in Australia