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Severe weather events, such as drought, wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes have impacted cannabis production and motivated employee health and safety protocols.
Named after founder Harold Singletary’s great-great-grandmother, who was enslaved, BrightMa Farms strives to fulfill hemp’s potential to benefit farmers of color and society as a whole.
Left to right: BrightMa Farms’ Sherman Evans, director of sales and marketing; Dwayne Green, member manager; Brandon Hudson, director of cultivation; Jean-Marc Villain, chief operating officer; and Harold Singletary, founder and CEO
BrightMa and partner Puregene AG strive to advance diversity and sustainability in the hemp industry via the BrightMa Innovation Center.
Charleston, S.C., April 18, 2022 – To drive the impact of a circular economy, driven by cutting-edge research, financial equity, and cooperation, BrightMa Farms will break ground on The BrightMa Innovation Center (“The BIC”) in Orangeburg, S.C., on April 29, 2022. The center is the result of a new collaboration between two industrial hemp pioneers, BrightMa Farms and Puregene AG, to pave the way to greater diversity and sustainability on a global scale and creating a space where science, technology, community, and education truly combine to impact the realization of end-product application. Rooted in history, infused with rich culture and propelled by scientific discovery, with large-scale technological backing, The BIC (the name which signifies the venture led by BrightMa and supported by Puregene) is establishing a world where literally anything is possible.
RELATED: South Carolina Grower BrightMa Farms Builds Genetics Partnership With Swiss Hemp and Cannabis Research Company Puregene AG
The company announced that it has partnered with SonoAsh to make low-carbon green cement products using industrial hemp.
BrightMa Farms, a South Carolina-based minority-owned vertically integrated hemp company, is working to maximize hemp’s carbon-sequestering properties in its most recent partnership.
The company announced that it has partnered with SonoAsh Engineered Materials of Maryland, a processing engineering company, to make low-carbon green cement products using industrial hemp.
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National banks have been reluctant to service hemp businesses, but some growers have found success with community banks.
Zeiningen, Switzerland, April 25th, 2022 – To drive the impact of one of the potentially largest future circular economies in the world focused on hemp, BrightMa Farms will break ground on the BrightMa Innovation Center (“The BIC”) in Orangeburg, SC on April 29th, 2022. The center will be a beacon for cutting-edge research, financial equity, and cooperation, and is the direct result of a new collaboration between two industrial hemp pioneers, BrightMa and Puregene. The mission of the BIC is to pave the way to greater diversity and sustainability on a global scale and create a space where Science, Technology, Community, Entrepreneurship, and Education truly combine to impact the realization of end-product application. Rooted in history, infused with rich culture, and propelled by scientific discovery, with large-scale technological backing, The BIC (the name which signifies the venture led by BrightMa and supported by Puregene) is establishing a world where anything is possible.
Puregene will support Brightma`s US-based breeding program to harness the power of the adaptive range of hemp using its genomic-based breeding technologies. In fact, hemp`s ability to grow from the arctic circle to the tropics is simultaneously one of its biggest challenges and its biggest strength. By reimaging the variety development process, adaptation to multiple climate zones and latitudes happens simultaneously with variety improvement using next-generation genomic prediction. By testing genetically diverse material in diverse environments Puregene can incorporate its database of highly beneficial environmental response traits into future varieties. With genomic prediction, breeding is literally flipped on its head, as diverse material is tested directly where it will be produced by stakeholders. Ultimately, the realization of breeding advances in real-time benefits both producers and stakeholders.
BrightMa Farms is taking the lead in the global industrial Hemp market, for the immediate benefit of minority farmers, and ultimately, the industry at large. The aim was to expand territories and bridge the gap for HBCU talent to be engaged with deliverable supply chains using Industrial Hemp. The unique positioning of Historically Black Colleges and Universities offer an opportunity to rapidly accelerate Black economic mobility. The support from BrightMa and the 1890 Research Extensions has increased the impact of the HBCU footprint substantially. In addition, the first-of-its-kind initiative of BrightMa and Puregene increases its scientific significance and magnifies its scope dramatically. Puregene, the Swiss leader in Genomic-based Predictive Breeding, is adding its extensive expertise and ground-breaking technological advancements, to amplify the venture to new levels of realization, as it accelerates Hemp applications, by implementing its proper vertical integration strategy. Every stage of the production process is optimized, ensuring innovation is directly implemented in the market.
In the envisioned pipeline, BrightMa Innovation Center will deliver varieties to HBCU research and extensions for testing, trialing, and application R&D. BrightMa is working with theHBCU Extension to further provide the next generation of high-yielding hemp varieties to minority farmers. Raw materials from minority farmers are then delivered to BrightMa Farms for processing. Upon which the processed raw materials are delivered to strategic manufacturing solution partners that create novel products from hemp grain, fiber, and medicine. Final product development and market integration are supported by BrightMa Farms with strategic partners. In the end, every innovation that goes into every seed developed at The IC has a market-driven solution, maximizing the gain for minority farmers.
Puregene, a global leader in genomic-based Predictive Breeding, iscaneliver on the key vision of high-performance industrially-ready hemp varieties. Although Hemp is regarded as the “Seed of Life” due to its numerous applications, it is the genetics in the seed that drive the growth of the hemp market. Puregene dominates this front, as it’s the company responsible for deciphering the DNA of Cannabis. The Puregene partnership offers the expertise, data, and technology that will be the foundation of the center’s advanced breeding platforms. This expertise will also be embedded in training and internships for students. Bringing greater diversity to miminoritieswith cutting-edge technology at its core.
Zeiningen, Switzerland, April 25th, 2022 – To drive the impact of one of the potentially largest future circular economies in the world focused on hemp, BrightMa Farms will break ground on the BrightMa Innovation Center (“The BIC”) in Orangeburg, SC on April 29th, 2022. The center will be a beacon for cutting-edge research, financial equity, and cooperation, and is the direct result of a new collaboration between two industrial hemp pioneers, BrightMa and Puregene. The mission of the BIC is to pave the way to greater diversity and sustainability on a global scale and create a space where Science, Technology, Community, Entrepreneurship, and Education truly combine to impact the realization of end-product application. Rooted in history, infused with rich culture, and propelled by scientific discovery, with large-scale technological backing, The BIC (the name which signifies the venture led by BrightMa and supported by Puregene) is establishing a world where anything is possible.
Puregene will support Brightma`s US-based breeding program to harness the power of the adaptive range of hemp using its genomic-based breeding technologies. In fact, hemp`s ability to grow from the arctic circle to the tropics is simultaneously one of its biggest challenges and its biggest strength. By reimaging the variety development process, adaptation to multiple climate zones and latitudes happens simultaneously with variety improvement using next-generation genomic prediction. By testing genetically diverse material in diverse environments Puregene can incorporate its database of highly beneficial environmental response traits into future varieties. With genomic prediction, breeding is literally flipped on its head, as diverse material is tested directly where it will be produced by stakeholders. Ultimately, the realization of breeding advances in real-time benefits both producers and stakeholders.
BrightMa Farms is taking the lead in the global industrial Hemp market, for the immediate benefit of minority farmers, and ultimately, the industry at large. The aim was to expand territories and bridge the gap for HBCU talent to be engaged with deliverable supply chains using Industrial Hemp. The unique positioning of Historically Black Colleges and Universities offer an opportunity to rapidly accelerate Black economic mobility. The support from BrightMa and the 1890 Research Extensions has increased the impact of the HBCU footprint substantially. In addition, the first-of-its-kind initiative of BrightMa and Puregene increases its scientific significance and magnifies its scope dramatically. Puregene, the Swiss leader in Genomic-based Predictive Breeding, is adding its extensive expertise and ground-breaking technological advancements, to amplify the venture to new levels of realization, as it accelerates Hemp applications, by implementing its proper vertical integration strategy. Every stage of the production process is optimized, ensuring innovation is directly implemented in the market.
In the envisioned pipeline, BrightMa Innovation Center will deliver varieties to HBCU research and extensions for testing, trialing, and application R&D. BrightMa is working with theHBCU Extension to further provide the next generation of high-yielding hemp varieties to minority farmers. Raw materials from minority farmers are then delivered to BrightMa Farms for processing. Upon which the processed raw materials are delivered to strategic manufacturing solution partners that create novel products from hemp grain, fiber, and medicine. Final product development and market integration are supported by BrightMa Farms with strategic partners. In the end, every innovation that goes into every seed developed at The IC has a market-driven solution, maximizing the gain for minority farmers.
Puregene, a global leader in genomic-based Predictive Breeding, iscaneliver on the key vision of high-performance industrially-ready hemp varieties. Although Hemp is regarded as the “Seed of Life” due to its numerous applications, it is the genetics in the seed that drive the growth of the hemp market. Puregene dominates this front, as it’s the company responsible for deciphering the DNA of Cannabis. The Puregene partnership offers the expertise, data, and technology that will be the foundation of the center’s advanced breeding platforms. This expertise will also be embedded in training and internships for students. Bringing greater diversity to miminoritieswith cutting-edge technology at its core.
BrightMa Farms is a vertically integrated minority business enterprise and veteran-managed Hemp group with corporate offices in Charleston SC and growth campuses located in Orangeburg and Cordesville, SC. They have been setting a global footprint that will champion an SC circular economy and pave the way nationally with economic development designed to benefit businesses, society, and the environment – signified by the triple bottom line (People-Planet-Profit). This transformative model is based on the principles of integrity, transparency, compliance, and social and environmental sustainability. The founding partners of the Propel Centre are Apple, Southern Company, and Ed Farm.
Puregene is a genomics-based plant breeding company that combines Swiss quality and cannabis expertise with state-of-the-art breeding technologies. We are determined to revolutionize Hemp and cannabis breeding and to access its full potential, by including science-based, cutting-edge research, as is the case with major crops, such as soy, corn, rice, and wheat.
BrightMa Farms is a vertically integrated minority business enterprise and veteran-managed Hemp group with corporate offices in Charleston SC and growth campuses located in Orangeburg and Cordesville, SC. They have been setting a global footprint that will champion an SC circular economy and pave the way nationally with economic development designed to benefit businesses, society, and the environment – signified by the triple bottom line (People-Planet-Profit). This transformative model is based on the principles of integrity, transparency, compliance, and social and environmental sustainability. The founding partners of the Propel Centre are Apple, Southern Company, and Ed Farm.
Puregene is a genomics-based plant breeding company that combines Swiss quality and cannabis expertise with state-of-the-art breeding technologies. We are determined to revolutionize Hemp and cannabis breeding and to access its full potential, by including science-based, cutting-edge research, as is the case with major crops, such as soy, corn, rice, and wheat.
For queries from North America, please contact Allan Rewak at 647-206-1231 or [email protected] For all other queries, please contact CCO, Renato Auer at [email protected]